International Baccalaureate · IB Diploma
Language A: Literature · HL
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Handouts · AP English Literature and Composition (9)
Exercise sheets · AP English Literature and Composition (94)
- 1.1 What textual details reveal about a character
- 1.2 Textual details that convey setting
- 1.3 How plot orders events
- 1.4 The function of a sequence of events
- 1.5 Identifying the narrator or speaker
- 1.6 The function of point of view
- 1.7 Developing a paragraph with claim and evidence
- 2.1 What textual details reveal about a character
- 2.2 The function of structure in a text
- 2.3 The function of contrasts within a text
- 2.4 The function of specific words and phrases
- 2.5 The function of a simile
- 2.6 The function of a metaphor
- 2.7 Developing a paragraph with claim and evidence
- 3.1 What textual details reveal about a character
- 3.2 Characters who change or remain unchanged
- 3.3 Textual details that convey setting
- 3.4 Significant events in a plot
- 3.5 The function of conflict in a text
- 3.6 Developing a paragraph with claim and evidence
- 3.7 Developing a literary thesis statement
- 3.8 Developing commentary
- 3.9 Selecting relevant and sufficient evidence
- 3.10 Control over the elements of composition
- 4.1 What textual details reveal about a character
- 4.2 The function of contrasting characters
- 4.3 Nuances in characters' relationships
- 4.4 The function of setting in a narrative
- 4.5 The relationship between character and setting
- 4.6 How plot orders events
- 4.7 The function of contrasts within a text
- 4.8 Identifying the narrator or speaker
- 4.9 The function of point of view
- 4.10 Details, diction, and syntax reveal perspective
- 4.11 Developing a literary thesis statement
- 4.12 Developing commentary
- 4.13 Selecting relevant and sufficient evidence
- 4.14 Control over the elements of composition
- 5.1 The function of structure in a text
- 5.2 Literal and figurative meaning
- 5.3 The function of specific words and phrases
- 5.4 The function of an image or imagery
- 5.5 The function of a metaphor
- 5.6 The function of personification
- 5.7 The function of an allusion
- 5.8 Developing a literary thesis statement
- 5.9 Developing commentary
- 5.10 Selecting relevant and sufficient evidence
- 5.11 Control over the elements of composition
- 6.1 What textual details reveal about a character
- 6.2 The function of contrasting characters
- 6.3 Choices, actions, and speech reveal complexity
- 6.4 How plot orders events
- 6.5 The function of a sequence of events
- 6.6 The function of contrasts within a text
- 6.7 Details, diction, and syntax reveal perspective
- 6.8 How a narrator's reliability affects a narrative
- 6.9 The function of a symbol
- 6.10 Developing a literary thesis statement
- 6.11 Developing commentary
- 6.12 Selecting relevant and sufficient evidence
- 6.13 Control over the elements of composition
- 7.1 Characters who change or remain unchanged
- 7.2 Nuances in characters' relationships
- 7.3 The function of setting in a narrative
- 7.4 The relationship between character and setting
- 7.5 How plot orders events
- 7.6 The function of a sequence of events
- 7.7 How a narrator's reliability affects a narrative
- 7.8 The function of a symbol
- 7.9 The function of an image or imagery
- 7.10 The function of a simile
- 7.11 The function of personification
- 7.12 Developing a literary thesis statement
- 7.13 Developing commentary
- 7.14 Selecting relevant and sufficient evidence
- 8.1 The function of structure in a text
- 8.2 The function of contrasts within a text
- 8.3 The function of specific words and phrases
- 8.4 The function of a symbol
- 8.5 The function of a metaphor
- 8.6 The function of an allusion
- 8.7 Developing a literary thesis statement
- 8.8 Developing commentary
- 8.9 Selecting relevant and sufficient evidence
- 8.10 Control over the elements of composition
- 9.1 Characters who change or remain unchanged
- 9.2 Choices, actions, and speech reveal complexity
- 9.3 Significant events in a plot
- 9.4 The function of conflict in a text
- 9.5 Details, diction, and syntax reveal perspective
- 9.6 Developing a literary thesis statement
- 9.7 Developing commentary
- 9.8 Selecting relevant and sufficient evidence
Presentation slides · AP English Literature and Composition (9)
Course units and learning goals
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme.
Readers, writers and texts · Literary form and close reading
- Analyse imagery, voice, structure and ambiguity
- Explain effects through precise evidence rather than plot summary
- personification
- Giving human qualities to non-human things.
- ambiguity
- The presence of more than one plausible meaning.
Time and space; intertextuality · Comparative literary argument
- Compare choices in two literary works
- Use context and contrasting readings to develop a reasoned interpretation
- literary form
- The genre and structural organization of a literary work.
- retrospective narration
- Telling earlier events from a later perspective.
Individual oral · Global issue and works in translation
- Select a focused issue across original-language and translated works
- Analyse extracts and whole works in a supervised oral
- translation
- Rendering a text in another language.
- global issue
- An issue of wider significance that operates in local contexts.
HL essay · Independent literary inquiry
- Develop an analytical essay on one studied work
- Sustain an evidence-based line of inquiry in 1200–1500 words
- motif
- A recurring element that contributes to a work's meaning.
- thesis
- The central claim developed in an argument.
Preparing for this qualification
- SL: one guided unseen literary analysis Paper 1 75 min 35%, comparative Paper 2 105 min 35%, oral 30%. HL: two unseen analyses Paper 1 135 min 35%, Paper 2 105 min 25%, HL essay 20%, oral 20%.
- English is the language studied. SL studies nine works, HL thirteen. School selects eligible works, including works in translation; oral pairs one originally written in English and one studied in translation.
Teaching coverage still needed
- School-selected nine/thirteen works, prescribed reading-list requirements, translation balance and detailed textual teaching remain.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
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