Essay instructions

Please hand in a printed copy no later than Tuesday, 9 April.

Thank you.

FOA - adapted planning

I'm dreadfully sorry to have made such a planning error, but on Monday the 25th I have to go to Tilburg University with my my mentor group.

Thursday 21 March: Jasper, Teun and Benjamin

Friday 22 March: Joep and Stan
                         
Tuesday 26 March: Jade, Anneke and Lissa
                               Janine and Gwenda

Thursday 28 March: Tobi, Arjen, Ruben and Tom

Planning until testweek March

18/02 19/02 21/02 22/02	Essay practice FOA Ivar-Sander-Stijn / work on essays Exam texts Work on Written Tasks – computer room
25/02 26/02 28/02	Filling out Wr Task forms Exam texts Deadline Written Task

Planning Individual Oral Commentary

Unless otherwise specified, the exams take place in 027.

 

From your start time you have 20 minutes to prepare. The actual exam will take 15 minutes.

Date	Time	Student
Fri 8 Feb	14.30	Anneke
	14.50	Stijn
Mon 18 Feb	13.30	Loes
	13.50	Lissa
	14.10	Stef
	14.30	Stan
	14.50	Arjen
Wed 20 Feb	15.00	Teun
	15.20	Joep
Fri 22 Feb	14.30	Tom
	14.50	Jasper
	15.10	Jade
	15.30	Ivar
Mon 25 Feb	13.30	Tobi
	13.50	Benjamin
	14.10	Imke
	14.30	Janine
	14.50	Ruben

Critical Response: the outline (HL only)

For Written Task 2 - the critical response - you do not have to write a rationale because the type of text (formal essay) and main questions are pre-determined. Instead, you have to write an outline, similar in length to the rationale, in which you address the following points:

• the prescribed question that has been chosen
• the title of the text(s) for analysis
• the part of the course to which the text refers
• three or four key points that explain the particular focus of the task

(You could even start by writing the outline as the lay-out for your actual response!)

The IB guide adds the following useful information:

Where appropriate, task 2 must reference, in a bibliography, the relevant support documentation such as the newspaper article or magazine advertisement on which it is based.              

Where a complete shorter text is chosen (for example, a newspaper article or an advertisement from a magazine) students may refer to other texts to support their response.

The critical response is in the style of a formal essay and must be clearly structured with an introduction, clearly developed ideas or arguments and a conclusion.

 
 

Rationale requirements - straight from the IB guide

The rationale is not included in the word count (800–1,000 words) for the written task and should be 200– 300 words in length. Text titles or topics recorded on the rationale are expected to match those recorded on the coversheet.

In their rationale students must explain:

• how the content of the task is linked to a particular part of the course
  
• how the task is intended to explore particular aspects of the course
  
• the nature of the task chosen
  
• information about audience, purpose and the varying contexts in which the task is set. 

The rationale should not only include knowledge about the text or topic studied, but also about the formal conventions of the text type produced and how they relate to the aims of the task.

 

The key question you have to answer is:

 

WHAT do you want to SHOW with your Written Task and HOW are you going to achieve it?

Assignment: keywords Part 4

Select one keyword/phrase for Heart of Darkness and one for Streetcar from this brainstorm.
Find a quote from each work that illustrates that aspect well. Bring it to class on Friday (11 Jan).

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