IB Literature

LITERATURE

What to learn?

SL students will study nine texts, and HL will study thirteen.  These will include translated texts from seven different countries, including:

• Tennessee William's Southern gothic play A Streetcar Named Desire

• Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis

• Chinua Achebe's postcolonial novel Things Fall Apart

• William Shakespeare's tragic play Othello

• Carol Ann Duffy's feminist revisionist poetry The World's Wife

• Yukio Mishima's novella The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea 

• Margaret Atwood's classic feminist dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale

• Toni Morrison's seminal novel The Bluest Eye

• Grace Nichols' poetry

• Henrik Ibsen's Norwegian play Hedda Gabler

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's postcolonial novel Purple Hibiscus

• Jhumpa Lahiri's short story anthology Interpreter of Maladies

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez's magical realism novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold

HOW WILL I BE ASSESSED?

• For Paper 1 you will be given two unseen literature extracts.  SL write an essay on one, and HL will write an essay on both.  Here is the mark scheme.

• For Paper 2, you will have five essay questions and you will need to write a comparative essay on one of these, using two of the texts you have studied.   Here is the mark scheme.

• For your individual oral, you will explore how a global issue is presented in one translated text and one non-translated text of your choosing.  Here is the mark scheme.

• HL students will also pick one text and write an essay on it.  You can write about essentially anything you want, so long as it's analytical!  Here is the mark scheme.

USEFUL REVISION RESOURCE

• A compilation of literary terms

• LitChart summaries

Still need help?

• Speak to or email your classroom teacher

• Speak to Mr Collett at s.collett@westminsteracademy.org.uk