Grade 11 H.L International Baccalaureate Program Outline and Overview

Grade 11 H.L International Baccalaureate Program Outline and Overview

The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.

These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.

The I.B. Program is divided into four parts. These are as follows:

Part One- Works in Translation

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Novel Study)

Paradise of the Blind (Novel Study)

Death and the Maiden (Drama)

Part Two- Studied in Grade 12

Part Three- Studied in Grade 12

Part Four- Range of Works

Persepolis (Non-fiction Graphic Novel)

Poetry (range of periods)

Contemporary Non-Fiction (Variety of non-fiction articles)

In Grade 11 you will begin with Part 4 and the content will be loosely structured as follows:

Content / Notes / Focus for Learning
The Things they Carried / A preparation unit to teach the skills required to write a good commentary and access literature at an articulate, interpretive level / -Lit terminology
-Commentary Writing
-Lit conventions
-Reflective writing
Persepolis / Graphic novel used as stimulus for 1/3 of oral assessments / -Insights
-Stylistic features/ form
-Soc. and Hist context
-Tracing
-Theme
Poetry / Approximately 10-12 poems from a range of authors and time periods. Stimulus for 1/3 of oral assessments / -Commentary writing
-Lang and Form
-Soc. And His. Context
Chronicle of a Death Foretold / Read over Christmas then complete close textual analysis in class. / -Theme
- Narrative style
-Soc. and His Context
-Tracing
-Characterization
-Image/ motif/ symbol
Paradise of the Blind / Vietnamese Novel
Death and the Maiden / Latin-American Play / -Dramatic conventions
Creative Writing / Creative writing techniques and a personal narrative / -Building tension
-Imagery/ language
-Plot
-Characterization
-Symbol/ motif
-Voice
Non-Fiction / Includes 4/5 classes of final 1/3 oral presentations, discussion of stylistic devices, patterns of organization, creative non-fiction and an original non-fiction written piece / -Stylistic devices
-Rhetoric
-Tone
-Main Idea
-Purpose
-Patterns of Organization

Assessment:

I.B.

At some point during the year you will produce an original 10-15minOral Presentation to the class responding to one of the three pieces of literature exposed to in Part Four
You will also be asked to produce a reflective statement of 300-400 words in response to each presentation that you see from other students (approx ten in total) one of these will be submitted with your final World Lit essay at the end of the year (see below)
A secondInteractive Oral Presentation (IOP) oral will be delivered during Part One towards the end of the year. You will be expected to engage in an interactive discussion where you lead the class on a component from one of the World Lit texts
At the end of the year one of the reflective statements from the first orals will be used to aid the construction of a 1200-1500 World Literature essay and both the essay and the reflective statement will be sent away for assessment and moderation by the board

School-Based

You will also be assessed on the regular English program in which your teacher will offer regular grades that will not count for the I.B. diploma but will be recognised for the purposes of reporting and grading at the end of grade 11. Generally these grades will be inflated to reflect the added pressures of the IB school curriculum.

Numbers:

Type of Assessment / Marks available
IOP (Grade 11) / 15
IOC (Grade 12) / 15
WL Essay (Grade 11) / 25
Paper One Commentary (Grade 12) / 20
Paper Two Response (Grade 12) / 25
Total /100

Marking:

17- 20 = 7 (80+) (96)

14 −16 = 6 (68-79) (90)

11 − 13 = 5 (55-67) (86%)

8 − 10 = 4 (31-41) (C+ low B) (73%)

3 pass (50%)

2 fail