Areas of Exploration

1. Readers, Writers and Texts

# The interaction and relationship between a text and a reader. 

# How readers make meaning and how a text was created.

# How language, conventions and style make meaning.

2. Intertextuality: Connecting Texts

# How texts can add, relate, link, contrast, challenge and connect with other texts

# How texts can add layers of meaning for the reader.w 

3. Time and Space

# The contexts of production and reception of a text.

# How texts change, or don’t change, over time.

# How readers interpret texts.

# A text’s place and culture in our world.

The Magnificent 7 Concepts

1. Identity: The identity of the reader, the identity of the writer. This is all about who we are, what we are, our likes and dislikes, and all the characteristics that make us unique.

2. Culture: Values, beliefs and attitudes of the context. This is a big one and quite a lot to get your head around.

3. Creativity: The role of imagination both the writer and reader.

4. Communication: Relationship between the writer and reader. How a writer communicates; the style and structure of the text. What, and how, a text communicates to us

5. Perspective: Writer and reader perspectives influences interpretation of the text.

6. Transformation: The ways texts refer and connect to each other. 

7. Representation: How texts relate to reality, or not.

Assessments

OFS English Department 2023 - 2024

IB Language & Literature G11 SL Summative Assessments: 

Quarter 1

28 Aug                         1        Paper 1 PG

25 Sept                       2        Paper 1 PG

Quarter 2

30 Oct                          1        GIA: Global Issue Essay Transcript

Exam Semester 1: Paper 1 PG

Quarter 3

22 Jan                         1         Mini IO

26 March                      2        Mini IO with partner 

Quarter 4

15 Apr                         1        Full Mock IO (Individual Oral) PG

Exam Semester 2: Paper 1 PG

Weighting: 

Quarter grades: 

Q1and Q3: 50/50 Q2 and Q4: 100%

Semester grade:

Q1: 40%: Summative 1= 20%, Summative 2 = 20%

Q2: 30%: Summative 1= 30%

Exam 1: 30%

Q3: 40%: Summative 1=20%, Summative 2 = 20%

Q4: 30%: Summative 1=30%

Exam 2: 30%

IB Final IO IA:  HL Late May, 2024 // SL Late August, 2024.