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IOs will take place June 8-9, 2023
IOs will take place June 8-9, 2023
The individual oral is a 10-minute oral followed by five minutes of teacher questions. It is worth 20% of the student’s final mark at HL .
The individual oral addresses the following prompt: “Examine the ways in which the global issue of your choice is presented through the content and form of one of the works and one of the texts you have studied.” It’s important to remember that global issues have the following attributes: (a) they have significance on a wide/large scale; (b) they are transnational; (c) the impact is felt in everyday contexts.
Students should be allowed to choose any of the texts and works they have studied in the course. They should also choose their own global issue. Remember that you cannot use texts and works that you intend to use for any other assessment (HL Essay, Paper 2).
This assessment is based on the work students have carried out in their learner portfolios. Students investigate literary works, non-literary texts, and global issues during their course. For the individual oral, students select one extract each from a literary work and from a non-literary text that are representative of the global issue they have chosen. Each extract should not normally exceed 40 lines. Extracts may be complete texts. Students are allowed to bring clean copies of their extracts to the individual oral.
The individual oral should be in the form of an argument that explores the global issue through the ways the extracts and entire text/work show and represent the issue. That is, students need to demonstrate the relationship between the textual construction of ideas and the global issue. Students should give roughly equal attention to both of their chosen extracts and text/work as a whole. That is why a body of work is necessary in the study of non-literary texts.
The IB will provide a form that students should use to create an outline of their presentation. Students have the opportunity, in advance of their oral, to write out a maximum of ten bullet points. These bullet points should be brief, and students should not read directly from their outline. The student brings both the outline and the clean, unmarked extracts to the examination. The teacher will also have a copy of these extracts during the examination.
At least one week prior to the individual oral, students must share the extracts and the 10 point bullet point notes sheet they intend to use in their individual oral with their teacher. Teachers must approve the extract choices as well as the bullet points before students can proceed with the assessment. Once these are submitted to the teacher, no further changes can be made without prior approval.
The individual oral is internally assessed. That is, your teacher will mark it. The IB externally moderates the oral. The IB will select a specific sample for moderation based on class HL and SL scores submitted by the school to the IB. The sampling will then be moderated by an IB examiner to ensure your teachers' marks are in line with IB assessment criteria and expectations. If the moderator's marks differ from your teacher's, the class marks may be adjusted.
Term 4 - Week 3
Term 4 - Week 3
L/O: To re-examine global issues in the various texts we have studied
L/O: To rethink and tweak our GIs and text choices
L/O: To review the assessment rubric and expectations for the assessment
Countdown to the IO
Countdown to the IO
6 weeks
6 weeks
Tuesday, April 25
Re-examining GIs in our texts - station rotation charting. (Fields of Inquiry, big issues, Global issues)
Discussion/Presentation
HW: start to think about 2 text pairings and GI that you may be interested in based on our work today. Write the down and be ready to discuss them in class on Tuesday.
Wednesday, April 26
Grill your friend!- partner work - narrowing down your GIs.
HW: Based on your work over the past 2 lessons, come to class tomorrow with your top 2 text pairing and GI choices. Add it to the class tracking document
Friday, April 28
Xian - GI presentation
Looking at the IO assessment rubric - class colour coding activity
Listening to a sample
examiner comments and final mark
Review our top 2 GI / text pairing choices
HW: Narrow down 1-2 possible extracts for each text for your 2 text pairings. Add the page number, scene name or name of poem or video on the class tracking document
[Untitled].pdfDon't forget that we have 2 additional literary texts that we will explore before the HLE. Don't be afraid to use a Lit text you love for the IO, there are others to choose from next year.
Antigone - Sophocle
Death and the Maiden - Ariel Dorfman
Below are some additional videos on the IO and global issues that you may find useful
Week 5
Week 5
L/O: To rethink and tweak our GIs and text choices
L/O: To review the assessment rubric and expectations for the assessment
L/O: To work on selecting our extracts and begin to annotate for our global issues
COUNTDOWN TO THE IO
COUNTDOWN TO THE IO
5 WEEKS
5 WEEKS
Tuesday, May 2
One-on-one meetings to finalize our GIs and text choices.
Creating google doc of extracts with proper bibliographical information.
Annotating our extracts
HW: Continue to annotate your extracts. Be ready to start planning your IO next lesson.
Wednesday, May 3
The IO planner
IO planner - Extract to BOW/Work
IO planner - BOW/Work to Extract
Week 6
Week 6
L/O: To work on our IO planners and annotations of our passages
L/O: To gain a better understanding of the IO expectations by listening to a sample
COUNTDOWN TO THE IO
COUNTDOWN TO THE IO
5 WEEKS
5 WEEKS
Tuesday, May 9
English self-reports - assignment sheet
working on planners
HW: Completed planners due 10:30am Friday, May 12 via M.bac
HW: Self-reports due via g.form Wednesday, May 17 - 10pm
Wednesday, May 10
working on planners
HW: Completed planners due 10:30am Friday, May 12 via M.bac
HW: Self-reports due via g.form Wednesday, May 17 - 10pm
Friday, May 12
Listening to a sample and marking
Working on our planners
HW: Completed planners due at end of lesson today (10:30am)
HW: Self-reports due via g.form Wednesday, May 17 - 10pm
Week 7
Week 7
L/O: To work on our scripts based on teacher feedback on our outlines
L/O: To gain a better understanding of what our 10 bullet points can include
COUNTDOWN TO THE IO
COUNTDOWN TO THE IO
4 WEEKS
4 WEEKS
Tuesday, May 16
Working on scripts
HW: Rough scripts due: Friday, May 19th - 10:30am via m.bac
Wednesday, May 17
Working on scripts
HW: Self-reports due via g.form Wednesday, May 17 - 10pm
HW: Rough scripts due: Friday, May 19th - 10:30am via m.bac
Friday, May 19
10 bullet point samples
Working on scripts
HW: Rough scripts due: Friday, May 19th - 10:30am via m.bac
Week 8
Week 8
COUNTDOWN TO THE IO
COUNTDOWN TO THE IO
3 WEEKS
3 WEEKS
No Lessons - Exams Week
No Lessons - Exams Week
You should still be working on your IOs. Technically the IO is your Year 12 exam so you should be putting in the same amount of time on IO prep this week as you would studying for an English exam.
Week 10
Week 10
L/O: Complete bullet point notes
L/O: Practice, Practice, Practice
COUNTDOWN TO THE IO
COUNTDOWN TO THE IO
1.5 WEEKS
1.5 WEEKS
Tuesday, May 30
Some changes to the schedule
10 bullet point samples
individual rehearsal
HW: PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE. - Run through your IO at least 3 times per evening.
Wednesday, May 31
Sports Day - no lessons :(
HW: PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE. - Run through your IO at least 3 times per evening.
Friday, June 2
Listen to a sample
PRACTICE
PRACTICE
PRACTICE
HW: Extracts and bullet points due 10:30am via M.bac. Please upload your completed documents to the correct dropbox on m.bac
HW: PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE. - Run through your IO at least 3 times per evening.
Major Issues seen when reviewing your scripts:
There are NO screenshots or examples for your BOW provided to the examiners. You must describe them in enough detail that the examiner understands what you are talking about. Do not refer to "screenshots" or "line numbers" when discussing these examples.
Say it's a "global issue" it's totally ok to say "my global issues is.." or "I will be discussing the global issue of..."
Introduce your extract and each BOW example.
LINK TO THE GI CONSISTENTLY
Summary and analysis are two very different things. The IB wants ANALYSIS. You need to be discussing stylistic features and authorial/directorial choices and their effects
Avoid slang, informalities and colloquial language
Make sure it is clear when you are moving from one section to the next.
Examples in the BOW section should not be referred to as "bodies of work" but instead "examples from the body of work"
FINAL week of ENGLISH LESSONs for YEAR 12!!!!
FINAL week of ENGLISH LESSONs for YEAR 12!!!!
Tuesday, June 13
HAPPY BDAY MS Z!!
No lesson - Group 4
Wednesday, June 14
Intro to "Death and the Maiden"
Take out "Death and the Maiden" from the library
Friday, June 16
SEE YOU IN YEAR 13!!!
SEE YOU IN YEAR 13!!!
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