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Every IB English A: Language and Literature HL skill maps to a topic in the syllabus, so sessions cover what the exams test.

IB English A: Language and Literature HL
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The curriculum
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Sample curriculum
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Readers, Writers and Texts
Time and Space
Intertextuality: Connecting Texts
The Seven Concepts
Assessment Components
IB English A: Language and Literature HL tutoring curriculum91 skills across 5 units
Readers, Writers and Texts
The first area of exploration: close attention to how meaning is made in both non-literary texts and literary works, and to the reader's part in making it. Topics: Reading Non-Literary Text Types, Reading Literary Works Closely, How Meaning Is Constructed and Interpreted.
Time and Space
The second area of exploration: how the context in which a text was produced and the context in which it is received shape what it means. Topics: Context of Production and Reception, Culture, Identity and Social Representation.
Intertextuality: Connecting Texts
The third area of exploration: reading texts against each other, tracing conventions across a body of work, and using one text as a lens on another. Topics: Conventions of Text Types and Literary Forms, Comparing and Connecting Texts.
The Seven Concepts
Identity, culture, creativity, communication, perspective, transformation and representation - the concepts that run across all three areas of exploration and organize discussion of every text studied. Topics: The Seven Concepts as Tools.
Assessment Components
The four assessed tasks plus the mandatory learner portfolio: paper 1 guided textual analysis, paper 2 comparative essay, the HL essay, and the individual oral. Topics: Paper 1: Guided Textual Analysis, Paper 2: Comparative Essay, The HL Essay, The Individual Oral, The Learner Portfolio.
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Aristotle's IB English A: Language and Literature HL course tracks 91 skills across 5 units, mapped to the IB subject guide, including Readers, Writers and Texts, Time and Space, and Intertextuality: Connecting Texts. Every skill is linked to the skills it builds on, so the tutor always knows which parts of IB English A: Language and Literature HL your child has mastered and what to teach next.
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