International Baccalaureate · IB Diploma
Literature and Performance · SL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course.
Course units and learning goals
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme.
Literary analysis; comparative essay · Reading literature for performance possibilities
- Analyse voice, imagery and structure
- Compare two literary works through a focused argument
- imagery
- Language evoking sensory experience or a mental picture.
- literary analysis
- Explanation of how textual choices create meaning.
Dramatic text; written assignment · Individual performance choices and analysis
- Explore a dramatic extract through rehearsal
- Analyse how personal performance choices communicate its dramatic features
- dramatic feature
- An element of a play that shapes action or performance.
- gesture
- A purposeful bodily movement communicating meaning.
Transformation; individual oral · From non-dramatic literature to live theatre
- Transform a non-dramatic extract through purposeful theatre choices
- Explain and evaluate the transformation in an individual oral
- transformation
- Reworking a literary source into a different expressive form.
- audience response
- How viewers perceive and respond to a performance.
Preparing for this qualification
- Comparative essay Paper 1 30%, written assignment 30%, transformative performance and individual oral 40%. Actual live transformative performance ten minutes; oral fifteen minutes; written assignment at most 2000 words.
- School chooses at least five literary works and appropriate dramatic/non-dramatic material. Comparative essay uses two studied works; assignment examines a performed dramatic extract; transformation begins with non-dramatic literature.
Teaching coverage still needed
- Five selected literary works, performed dramatic extract, live transformation and recorded oral remain school-supervised evidence.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
Specifications and sample documents
- Literature and Performance — Subject brief ↗
- Literature and Performance — Subject brief · 2024 ↗
First assessment: 2024
Course materials
Course preparation
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course.
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