Composition and Literature 3
IB Literature
IB Language and Literature.
Comp-Lit 3 is a continuation of Comp-Lit 1 and 2, and the course focuses on American literature. Students will read an assortment of both fiction and nonfiction and compose a variety of argumentative, explanatory, and narrative writings.
IB Literature students will:
Read a range of fiction, including novels, plays, graphic novels, and poetry, and study the relationship between fiction and our reality.
Write a range of literary analysis papers, comics, poetry, and short stories.
Develop their literary analysis skills by examining the author’s choices in character development, plot structure, theme, tone, imagery, etc.
IB Language and Literature students will:
Read a range of nonfiction -- including news articles, editorials, political speeches, advertisements, and memoirs -- as well as some fiction.
Write a range of editorials, memoirs, creative pieces, and essays.
Develop their rhetorical analysis skills by examining texts in relation to their audience, purpose, context, and style.
In many respects, the two IB classes are similar.
Both classes are college-level classes.
Both classes are two-year classes.
Either class is appropriate for any students, no matter which sophomore English class they took -- CL2, AP Literature, or AP Language.
Both classes prepare students for the IB English assessments. Many colleges and universities will give college credit to students who do well on the IB assessments.
Both classes fulfill the Language A requirements for the IB Diploma, but students do not need to be IB Diploma candidates to take these classes.
Both classes receive a grade bump.
Which English class you take next year is your choice.
There's no entrance essay. There are no prerequisites.
Both IB courses are great opportunities for students to take higher-level English classes. All students will complete their interest survey before spring registration.