IB Prospectus 2025 DIGI Singles - Flipbook - Page 14
GROUP ONE: LANGUAGE A
ENGLISH AND WORLD LITERATURE available at HL and SL
This is an exciting course covering a wide variety of
diverse texts from both English and World Literature.
Exploring the range of literary forms, from Sophocles’
Antigone to Butterworth’s Jerusalem; from Flaubert’s
Madame Bovary to Angela Carter’s Bloody Chamber
and Bulgakov’s The Heart of a Dog and from John
Donne’s Songs and Sonnets to Alice Oswald’s Dart,
the English and World Literature course is a complete
change from GCSE. We move quickly through the
selected texts, approaching them from di昀昀erent critical
perspectives and encouraging students to develop their
own responses and ideas driven by discussion-based,
seminar-style learning.
Reading each text in light of its speci昀椀c historical and
political context, you will investigate links between texts
and analyse the ways in which global issues such as
identity, power and creativity are represented.
Thirteen texts are studied for Higher Level and ten for
Standard Level; some are studied in depth and closely,
some more rapidly but we are always looking at what
kind of knowledge of the world and of ourselves we can
gain through literature.
Assessment in the 昀椀rst year is oral, by means of an
analysis of two extracts and the ways that each
represents the global issue of your choice. In the second
year, HL will write an essay which is externally assessed.
For oral examinations and Higher Level essays, students
are encouraged to focus on ideas and concepts that
interest them personally.
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