Paper 1 (SL) The Rings of Saturn
This commentary responds to an extract from W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn. The extract is reasonably short, and requires close reading to tease out its subtleties. Recent SL examinations have seen shorter texts of literary non-fiction paired with longer persuasive ‘media’ texts. These different text types require students to apply rather different forms of analysis. Media texts often demand the application of...