Written Assignments - 20%
Two assignments written during the course and externally assessed, combined maximum of 1500 words.
Assignment 1: based on the literature option 10%
Assignment 2: Based on the culture option 10%
Individual oral commentary 15 minutes 15%
Commentary on an extract, chosen by the teacher, from one of the literary works studied.
Individual Oral Presentation 10-15 minutes 15%
Presentation of a topic, chosen by the candidate, based on one of the two the culture options
Written Paper Component - 50%
Two written Papers, externally set and externally moderated
Paper 1 Comparative Commentary SL: 90 mins / HL 120 mins. 25%
Written Comparative Commentary based on a pair of unseen texts to which the techniques of linguistic and literary analysis can be applied.
Paper 2 Essay 2 hours SL: 90 mins / HL 120 mins 25%
Ten essay questions on culture options and literature, .
One question only to be answered, based on the options and literary works studied in class.
Assignments counting towards the examination grade will be set throughout the two-year course.
Apart from these, essays, commentaries and oral assignments will be set for practice .
Research done individually or in groups will also be required.
Organization of the course:
Year 1 One culture and one literature option
Year 2 One culture and one literature option
Culture option 1: GLOBAL ISSUES
general
Global Issues Network - Conference participation
Model United Nations - Conference Participation
the environment
Reith lecture :”Respect for the Earth” by Gro Harlem Brundtland:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2000/
The Earth Charter – and Earth Charter Brochure
poverty
The Girl in the Café – film
The Constant Gardener – film
The Singer Solution to World Poverty
fair trade BBC Web site WTO Conference
conflict – war, terrorism
The Power of Nightmares – video
“International Terrorism – Definitions, Causes and Responses” and
“The justification of War”
from the United States Institute of Peace
“Orwellian Logic – by Norman Solomon
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Public_Relations/OrwellianLogic.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/index.html
children’s rights
The Universal declaration of the rights of the child
Swift: A modest Proposal
The Singer Solution to World Poverty
Children Beauty Pageants – web sites
Smacking law debate
Child soldiers
Human Rights Watch
War Child
Globalisation
Peter Singer: One World – The Ethics of Globalisation
Excerpts from Thomas L. Friedman: The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Vandana Shiva: “Globalisation and Poverty” - article
The Miniature Earth
Culture option 2 : LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
language history & development – world Englishes
Beowulf in Seamus Heaney’s translation - C.D. reading
The Pardoner’s Tale Chaucer
BBC website “Routes of English”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/routesofenglish/storysofar/series1.shtml
The Story of Language C.L. Barber
Mother Tongue Bill Bryson
The Story of English McCrum et al
accents and dialects
“Them and Uz” poem by Tony Harrison Video reading
Interview with Tony Harrison – video
“Kidspoem/Bairnsang” poem by Liz Lochhead
Benjamin Zephania poems from Reggae Head - CD
BBC web site on U.K. dialects and accents
http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/
“Do you speak American?” PBS web site on U.S. dialects and accents http://www.pbs.org/speak/
language and culture/ identity
Remember the Ship” John Agard poem
Linked with the LitOp – Roy, Walker, Naylor
language and power/ the language of power/ Political Correctness
“How to Write about Africa” by Binyavanga Wainaina
“You in America” by Amanda Ngozi Adichie
“Out of Africa” by Wendy Belcher ( on the language of travel writing)
Various texts from The PostColonial Web:
http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/post/index.html
Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner
“There Was Once” by Margaret Atwood
Excerpts from Ariel Dorfman’s memoir Heading South, Looking North
Literature option 1: POWER
Colonial, Political, Religious
· colonial power: Things Fall Apart (Achebe)
· totalitarian power: Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell) , essays “A Hanging” and “Shooting an Elephant”
· power conflict church & state: choice between The Crucible (Miller)
and A Man for All Seasons (Bolt)
Literature option 2: IDENTITY
Class, Race, Gender
The God of Small Things (Roy)
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
A selection of prose texts (fiction & non-fiction),
Langston Hughes Cora Unashamed
Alice Walker Everyday Use
Gloria Naylor Kiswana Browne
Monica Ali Dinner with Dr Azad
and poetry
Countee Cullen “Incident”
Langston Hughes “Dream Deferred”
Langston Hughes “Cross”
Wole Soyinka “Telephone Conversation”
Jack Mapanje from : Of Chameleons and God
Snodgrass “Powwow”
Holman “Mr Z”
Heyen “Riddle”
SYLLABUS AND ASSESSMENT OUTLINE
ENGLISH A2 H&s LEVEL MAY 2011EXAMINATION