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Readers, Writers and Texts
Time and Space
Intertextuality: Connecting Texts
The Seven Concepts
Assessment Components
IB English A: Literature SL tutoring curriculum85 skills across 5 units
Readers, Writers and Texts
The first area of exploration: close attention to how literary works make meaning, what is distinctive about each literary form, and the reader's part in interpretation. Topics: Close Reading of Literary Passages, The Four Literary Forms, How Meaning Is Constructed and Interpreted.
Time and Space
The second area of exploration: how the context of a work's production and the context of its reception shape meaning, and what happens to a work read in translation. Topics: Context of Production and Reception, Works in Translation and Cultural Distance.
Intertextuality: Connecting Texts
The third area of exploration: reading works against each other, tracing conventions and traditions, and using one work as a lens on another. Topics: Literary Conventions and Traditions, Comparing and Connecting Works.
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 work studied. Topics: The Seven Concepts as Tools.
Assessment Components
The four assessed tasks plus the mandatory learner portfolio: paper 1 guided literary analysis, paper 2 comparative essay, the HL essay, and the individual oral. Topics: Paper 1: Guided Literary Analysis, Paper 2: Comparative Essay, The Individual Oral, The Learner Portfolio.
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