IB Language and Literature (HL/SL) Paper 2

• The literary component of IB L(Paper 2)

This course is a skills and technique based course, teaching literary analysis. It will not teach student school set texts in depth.

Course Overview
The course will focus on literary analysis and its techniques, followed with guided technique and skill practice on a wide variety of IB texts. Literary techniques, analysis and essay writing will be modelled, using IB texts and real IB exam questions. The student will be taught how to ensure that their essays reflect their analysis, thus meeting the IB criterions.

A wide variety of IB literary texts will be used, including prose, poetry and drama. The student will be able to use their individual school set texts.

At the end of the course the student:

• will be able to extract, evaluate and critically analyse the effect of various literary devices in a variety of literary text types. They also will be able to use contextual and literary conventions across genres, cultures and time periods to understand and interpret various texts, the purpose of the texts and how the author uses tools to further the purpose.
• will be able to ensure that their analysis is reflected clearly by picking relevant details, quotes and using focused elaboration to develop analysis. The student will also be able to use precise language and discourse markers to apply the sequencing of ideas and relationships to to effectively convey literary analysis in a cohesive essay, while meeting IB criterions.
• will be able to comprehend the requirements and rubric for the individual oral and the various coursework tasks required throughout the course and deliver. The student will have gained skills such as verbal and written presentation, and engagement of analyses, enabling them to meet IB criterions.