All Things IB
The Learner Portfolio is what we do, the approaches to learning is how we do it, and the areas of exploration are how we look at text
How we Learn:
The Learner Portfolio
How we learn: Approaches to Learning
How we Learn: Areas of Exploration
There are 4 ways we learn to read text: stylistically conceptually, globally, intertextually
2. Concepts
The Prompt: Examine the ways in which the global issue of your choice is presented through the content and form of two of the works that you have studied.
Overview: For the HL essay, you are required to write a 1,200 –1,500 word formal essay which develops a line of inquiry of your own choice in connection with a text or work studied during the 2 year course.
Your line of inquiry should be based on 1-2 of the 7 concepts where you construct a focused, analytical argument examining the work from a broad literary or linguistic perspective.
It also requires you to adhere to the formal framework of an academic essay, using citations and references.
Global Field of Inquiry #1
Global Field of Inquiry #2
Global Field of Inquiry #3
Global Field of Inquiry #4
Global Field of Inquiry #5
IA: The HL Essay
The HL Essay is the easier of the 2 IA's and will be assigned during your Semester 1 Exam. There is an optional presentation component.
The HL essay will be the focus of instruction in early January 2021.
Students are required to write a 1,200 –1,500 word formal essay which develops a particular line of inquiry of their own choice in connection with a non-literary text, a collection of non-literary texts by one same author or a literary text or work studied during the course. Your line if inquiry should be based on 1-2 of the 7 concepts
The HL essay offers students an opportunity to develop as independent, critical and creative readers, thinkers and writers by exploring a literary or language topic over an extended period of time, refining their ideas by means of a process of planning, drafting and re-drafting. The essay requires students to construct a focused, analytical argument examining the work from a broad literary or linguistic perspective. It also requires them to adhere to the formal framework of an academic essay, using citations and references.
The Individual Oral
All texts speak to the world in some way. ‘Global issues’ are a way of generating and maintaining student interest in the ways in which texts speak to issues that go beyond texts and borders. You will be asked to consider the various global issues that are reflected, refracted or represented in the works you are learning about. study.
Over the course of the two-year study, students begin to narrow down to a particular global issue that is important to them or that they have noticed most strikingly in two of the works/texts they have studied. This forms the basis of their individual oral.
The global issues come from the following fields of inquiry on this page