English: Y12/13- IB Literature and Language

LITERATURE

What am I learning?

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

• Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis

• Chinua Achebe's postcolonial novel Things Fall Apart

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

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

LANGUAGE

What am I learning?

• Refuge's Domestic Violence Posters

• Jordan Peele's satirical thriller Get Out

• The WPA's anti-VD posters

• The satirical videos of Radi-Aid

• The blog posts of the Brown Hijabi

• Jeremy Clarkson's opinion pieces

• The propaganda stickers of The White Rose

• Malala Yousafzai's speeches

• Ugur Gallenkus' Parallel Universes of Children

HOW WILL I BE ASSESSED?

• For Paper 1 you will be given two unseen language 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 literature texts you have studied.   Here is the mark scheme.

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

• HL students will also pick one text (language or literature) 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 RESOURCES

• 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