The Individual Oral

LIT IO Form

Student IO Outline Form

Tips for Organizing Your IO

Seven Course Concepts

IO Assessment Chart

Examples/Former IO Global Issues

Conducted before the end of the junior year

Grade Weight: HL=20% / SL=30%

The Internal assessment enables students to demonstrate the application of their skills and knowledge in a different setting and to pursue their personal interests without the constraints that are associated with written examinations.

Students are required to deliver a 10-minute individual oral answering 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." The presentation will be followed by a 5-minute session where the teacher will ask questions about the presentation.

The Candidate must use two extracts from two different works, one of which must be written originally in the language studied and the other of which must be a work studied in translation.

Candidates must focus their analysis of how perspectives on a global issue are presented in the selected works. The Individual oral will be followed by 5 minutes of questions by the teacher.

Candidates will have copies of their chosen extracts with them during the internal assessment. Extracts must not exceed 40 lines (each) and must be unmarked.

Candidates will also be allowed to have a Student Outline Form during their internal oral. The Form may have NO MORE than 10 bullet points on one page.

Developing Your Global Issue Topic

Field of Inquiry

Culture, Identity, and Community

Issues Suggested

● Students might focus on the way in which works explore aspects of family, class, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality, and the way these impact on individuals and societies.

● Students might also focus on issues concerning migration, colonialism, and nationalism.

Beliefs, Values, and Education

● Students might focus on the way in which works explore the beliefs and values nurtured in particular societies and the ways they shape individuals, communities, and educational systems.

● Students might also explore the tensions that arise when there are conflicts of beliefs, values, and ethics.

Politics, Power, and Justice

● Students might focus on the ways in which works explore aspects of rights and responsibilities, the workings and structures of governments and institutions.

● Students might always investigate hierarchies of power, the distribution of wealth and resources, the limits of justice and the law, equality and inequality, human rights, and peace and conflict.

Arts, Creativity, and Imagination

● Students might focus on the ways in which works explore aspects of aesthetic inspiration, creation, craft, and beauty.

● Students might also focus on the shaping and challenging of perceptions through art, and the function, value, and effects of art in society.

Science, Technology, and the Natural World

● Students might focus on the ways in which works explore the relationship between humans and the environment, and the implications of technology and media for society.

● Students might also consider the idea of scientific development and progress.

IDEAS FOR GLOBAL ISSUES

The UN Sustainable Development Goals

The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, prosperity, and peace and justice. The Goals interconnect and in order to leave no one behind, it ís important that we achieve each Goal and target by 2030.

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