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Sound
As you will probably have been told many times by your class teacher, poetry is a form of literary art that should be heard as much as read; it has its roots in sound and rhythm, which is why it shares...
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Course requirements and assessment
There are important requirements about the number of texts and their provenance, which it is important to get right. Equally, although you should not think of the final assessment tasks as the only endpoint...
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The nature of the subject
There are three courses that students can choose to study in Group 1: Literature, Language and Literature, and Literature and Performance. Particular elements are common to all three, and expectations...
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IB Mission; Learner Profile; Core
The IB is perhaps unique in the way it asks educators to view subject teaching and learning within a broader ideological framework. Through the study of literary works, we are seeking to cultivate a range...
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The Literature course
Areas of Exploration Free
The Areas of Exploration are broad conceptual lenses which can be addressed in many different ways, for instance in choice of text, in points of comparison or contrast, or in the way a unit of work is...
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The Learner Portfolio - a guide for students
While you will have experience of keeping a record of your work for English, whether in note books or on computer, the concept of the learner portfolio may be a new one for you. The learner portfolio...
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The Art of Literary Writing... Free
In all areas of the course, but perhaps particularly in reference to practice for Paper 1, you will spend significant time exploring the means through which literary writers use specific tools in order...
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A student guide to literary art
Throughout the various parts of the course, you are asked to attend in detail to elements of literary craft - the how as opposed to the what of literary fiction. The following pages are written to provide...
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A brief overview of (nearly) everything
Beginning any course can inevitably feel a little daunting, and it is likely that you will feel quite a shift from the learning that has happened in previous years. Many of you will have studied and analysed...
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