Written+Task+2+HL




 * Percentage: Combined with WT 2 for 20% **


 * Exam Details: **
 * Written Task 2 is a critical response to the material studied in Language and Literature. Your task must show a critical engagement with the topic or text. WT 2 is an essay written in response to one of six questions prescribed by the IBO.
 * You must complete a minimum of 4 written tasks, two of which you will submit to the IBO for assessment. One of the tasks you submit will be a WT 1, the other a WT 2. One must be from parts 1 (Language in a Cultural Context) or 2 (Language and Media; the other WT must be from parts 3 (Literature—Texts and Contexts or 4 (Literature—Critical Study)
 * Your teacher can give general advice on your first draft, but may not annotate or edit your draft. S/he cannot help you on any further drafts.
 * The aims of WT 2 are:
 * § to consider in greater detail the material studied in the four parts of the course
 * § to reflect and question in greater depth the values, beliefs and attitudes that are implied in the texts studied
 * § to encourage students to view texts in a number of ways
 * § to enable students to give an individual response to the way in which texts can be understood in the light of the prescribed questions.
 * Each task must be **800-1000** words long. You must also submit an outline with your written task, completed on the IBO outline form. This outline will be submitted with your written tasks for assessment.
 * Your outline must be completed in class and must include:
 * § 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
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You must include a bibliography and cite any sources used.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">If your answer is based on a short text (i.e. a newspaper article), other materials may be used for support.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Your essay must be written in a formal style and be clearly structured with an introduction, clearly developed ideas/arguments, and a conclusion.

**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">syllabus section ** ||  **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Possible title and description **  ||  **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Learning outcomes **  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Written task and **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Task 1, part 3

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Submitted for <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">assessment || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">“From a Doll’s House to a Wasteland?”, adding a scene to //A Doll’s House//, exploring the consequences of Nora’s decision to leave || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Changing historical, cultural and social contexts in which texts are written and received <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Attitudes and values expressed by texts || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">two pieces—one in the style of a left-of-centre ecology magazine, the other a right-wing political magazine. In the outline, explaining how language and argument are used differently || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">How audience and purpose affect the structure and content of texts <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">How language and meaning are shaped by culture and context || **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">syllabus section ** ||  **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Possible title and description **  ||  **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Possible title and description **  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Task 2, part 1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">“The Climate Change Debate”, writing
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Written task and **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Task 3, parts 3 and 4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">“Another Life”, exploring aspects of a character in a literary text || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Explore literary works in detail

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Attitudes and values expressed by texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Analyze theme and moral values in a text || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">and 2
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Task 4, parts 1

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Submitted for <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">assessment || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Task 2, question 1: Reader, culture and <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">text || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">How language and meaning are shaped by culture and context

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">How audience and purpose affect the structure and content of texts

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">How mass media use language to inform and persuade

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Political and ideological influence of the media ||

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Reader, culture and text __
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prescribed Questions (with examples of tasks): **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The study and analysis of possible readings of the final pages of part 1 of the novel //The Outsider// by a French and Algerian reader at the time of the Algerian war of independence
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The study and analysis of possible readings of an extract from the screenplay of //La Grande Illusion// by a French public in the early 1930s and late 1930s
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The study and analysis of a political speech by a world leader that excludes references to certain groups or issues (those excluded will read the speech differently)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The study and analysis of different views of an article on obesity (this article may be viewed differently by someone from a country with problems of poverty and famine and by someone from a wealthy consumer society)
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. If the text had been written in a different time or place or language or for a different audience, how and why might it differ?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">An article from a newspaper and how it would be written in a different newspaper
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A comic book or graphic novel for teenagers in the 1950s rewritten for teenagers in the 21st century
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The study and analysis of a literary work on the theme of prejudice that highlights different assumptions about race, religion, and so on
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The study and analysis of an article about social class from a country that has a very hierarchical class structure (the significance of language that identifies class distinctions is of primary focus)

__<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Power and privilege __ __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Text and genre __ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Language and Literature Guide 42-46)
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The study and analysis of an article in which an urban tribe is represented in a negative way
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The representation of social groups in the novel //The Yacoubian Building// by Alaa al Aswany
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. Which social groups are marginalized, excluded or silenced within the text?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Chinese fiction in which the figure of the intellectual is either revered or condemned
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Representations of the Roma in the contemporary popular press
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">1. How does the text conform to, or deviate from, the conventions of a particular genre, and for what purpose?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The study and analysis of an author’s reworking of fairy tales
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The study and analysis of a novel that uses dramatic dialogue, poetry, letters, accounts of journeys
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The study and analysis of media texts with a particular format, style and register
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. How has the text borrowed from other texts, and with what effects?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The study and analysis of how a particular character from a work of fiction is re-imagined in a song lyric
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The study and analysis of religious imagery and references in political speeches
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The study and analysis of one of the stories from Borges’s //Ficciones//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The study and analysis of the use of the courtly love tradition in //Romeo and Juliet//

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Language and Literature Guide 47)
 * <span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Criterion A || <span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Outline || <span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">2 marks ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Criterion B || <span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Response to the Question || <span style="background-color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">8 marks ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Criterion C || <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Organization and Argument || <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5 marks ||
 * <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Criterion D || <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Language and Style || <span style="background-color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5 marks ||
 * || **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Total ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">20 marks ** ||

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