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Counsellors and connoisseurs
Try this exercise as a way to build students’ confidence in their ability to understand and analyze a writer’s style, and as a means of developing student skills of oral expression. The study of texts...
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A torture of terms Free
Questions I have heard asked at Language A teacher training workshops frequently concern the use of specialist terminology. “Do students need to use specialist literary or linguistic vocabulary?” “How...
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Thomas Hardy's poetic style debate
Although students do not submit a part 3 or part 4 focused Further Oral Activity for final assessment, this does not mean that debate and discussion skills cannot be used to explore the literary works....
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Works
Part 4 of the course - Literature – critical study - requires students to ‘explore literary works in detail’, analyzing ‘elements such as theme and … ethical stance or moral values’, while showing ‘[understanding...
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Language and belief
One of the suggested topics from the Language A: Language and Literature guide is 'language and belief'. People use language to express their beliefs and persuade others to believe their convictions....
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Criteria
Before you conduct a further oral activity, you should become familiar with the corresponding assessment criteria. You can become familiar with the criteria through self-assessment, peer assessment or...
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P2 HL (The Bell Jar and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
Straight off, you are about to read a great essay. The student responds to question 5 - Context – ‘historical, cultural, or social – can have an influence on the way literary works are written or received....
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Characters and context
This lesson shows how you can compare the characters from a novel to the real-life people from an author's life. Below you find a passage from The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, which is an excellent...
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Black and white
When writers write they have a target audience in mind. The language used by the writer appeals to a certain community or social group. How does the language of a text define its target audience? This...
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MOOC: Graphic novels Free
A brief update that may interest some subscibers: Coursera and the University of Colorado Boulder are offering a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Comic Books and Graphic Novels. The course begins...