Baccalauréat international · IB Diploma
Language A: Literature · SL
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course. · Dossiers, échantillons et documents de programme pour ce cours.
Course units and learning goals · Unités de cours et objectifs d'apprentissage
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme. · Ces leçons abordent des objectifs de cours sélectionnés. Vérifiez les lacunes restantes en couverture ; ce matériel ne constitue pas un programme d'entraînement complet.
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.
Preparing for this qualification · Préparation à cette 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 · Couverture pédagogique encore nécessaire
- 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.
Specifications and sample documents · Spécifications et documents d'échantillon
- Language A: Literature — Specimen papers ↗
- Language A: Literature — Subject brief · 2021 ↗
First assessment: 2021
Course materials · Matériel pédagogique
- Study notes · Notes de cours →
- Revision questions · Questions de révision →
- Teaching guidance · Guide pédagogique · Teacher access · Accès enseignant →
- Teacher diagnostics · Diagnostique enseignant · Teacher access · Accès enseignant →
- Supervised task guidance · Guide pour la tâche supervisée · Teacher access · Accès enseignant →
Course preparation · Préparation du cours
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course. · Les documents sont disponibles. Les notes spécifiques au conseil, les évaluations et la pratique interactive des anciens sujets ne sont pas encore disponibles pour tous les cours.
Lessons · Leçons →