1. Course Overview

Overview

DP IB English A: Language and Literature (HL) Overview

Areas of Exploration

Key Concepts

Learner Portfolio

Assessment Criteria

Key IB Terms and Commands

2. Learner Portfolio

How to Approach the Learner Portfolio

What is the Learner Portfolio?

How to Structure your Learner Portfolio

What to Include in your Learner Portfolio

How to Write a Reflection for your Learner Portfolio

Demonstrating Connections in your Learner Portfolio

Using your Learner Portfolio to Prepare for Assessment

3. Individual Oral

How to Approach the Individual Oral

Understanding the Individual Oral

Choosing and Refining your Global Issue

Analysing Literary Extracts & Bodies of Work

Structuring the Individual Oral

Preparing for the Individual Oral

Individual Oral Model Answer

4. Paper 1: Guided Textual Analysis

How to Approach Paper 1: Guided Textual Analysis

Understanding Paper 1: Unseen Textual Analysis

Approaching Unseen Non-Literary Texts: Purpose, Audience & Context

Analysing & Evaluating Authorial Choices and Textual Features

Structuring the Textual Analysis Essay

Guided Textual Analysis Model Answers

5. Paper 2: Comparative Essay

How to Approach Paper 2: Comparative Essay

Understanding Paper 2: Comparative Essay

Choosing Your Comparative Essay Question

Intertextuality: Connecting Literary Texts

Analysing & Evaluating Authorial Choices

Building a Comparative Argument

Comparative Essay Model Answers

6. HL Essay

How to Approach the HL Essay

Understanding the HL Essay

Developing your Line of Inquiry

Close Reading & Analysis

Structuring the HL Essay

Revising, Editing & Proofreading Your HL Essay

HL Essay Model Answers

8. Literary Texts: Drama

A Doll’s House

Plot Summary

Themes

Characters

Contextual Understanding

Authorial Choices and Textual Features

Comparative Perspectives

Key Quotations

Hamlet

Plot Summary

Themes

Characters

Contextual Understanding

Authorial Choices and Textual Features

Key Quotations

Othello

Plot Summary

Themes

Characters

Contextual Understanding

Authorial Choices and Textual Features

Key Quotations

Antigone

Plot Summary

Themes

Characters

Contextual Understanding

Authorial Choices and Textual Features

Comparative Perspectives

Key Quotations

A Streetcar Named Desire

Plot Summary

Themes

Characters

Contextual Understanding

Authorial Choices and Textual Features

Key Quotations

9. Literary Texts: Prose

1984

Plot Summary

Themes

Characters

Contextual Understanding

Authorial Choices and Textual Features

Key Quotations

Beloved

Plot Summary

Themes

Characters

Contextual Understanding

Authorial Choices and Textual Features

Comparative Perspectives

Key Quotations

The Great Gatsby

Plot Summary

Themes

Characters

Contextual Understanding

Authorial Choices and Textual Features

Key Quotations

The Handmaid’s Tale

Plot Summary

Themes

Characters

Contextual Understanding

Authorial Choices and Textual Features

Key Quotations

The Kite Runner

Plot Summary

Themes

Characters

Contextual Understanding

Authorial Choices and Textual Features

Comparative Perspectives

Key Quotations

Things Fall Apart

Plot Summary

Themes

Characters

Contextual Understanding

Authorial Choices and Textual Features

Key Quotations

10. Literary Texts: Prose Non-Fiction

Persepolis

Plot Summary

Themes

Characters

Contextual Understanding

Authorial Choices and Textual Features

Comparative Perspectives

Key Quotations

Born a Crime

Plot Summary

Themes

Characters

Contextual Understanding

Authorial Choices and Textual Features

Comparative Perspectives

Key Quotations

11. Literary Texts: Poetry

Carol Ann Duffy

Contextual Understanding

Originally

Mrs Midas

In Mrs Tilscher’s Class

Medusa

Havisham

Before You Were Mine

Valentine

Anne Hathaway

Demeter

Lilttle Red Cap

Mrs Faust

Mrs Sisyphus

Pygmalion’s Bride

Standing Female Nude

Warming her Pearls

The Way My Mother Speaks

Study tools

• DP IB English A: Language and Literature · Past Papers

Related links

• IB English Language & Literature · Revision Notes
• IB English Language & Literature · Past Papers