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  Paper 1: sample responses

  Sample paper 1 responsesLinked from this page are a range of paper 1 responses with teacher marks and comments. It is important for teachers and students to look at a range of examples so that you become...

  19 December 2021
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  Paper 1

  Paper 1, the first of two external examination papers, is now called Guided Literary Analysis for both HL and SL students. In this examination students will be given two unseen passages, each from a different...

  3 February 2020
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  Paper 2: a guide for students

  Paper 2: a guide for studentsAfter two years with no paper 2 due to the pandemic, it is now back for current first year DP students. To help prepare students - and teachers - for the return of this examination...

  27 March 2024
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  Paper 2: sample responses

  Sample paper 2 responsesLinked from this page are some paper 2 sample responses with teacher marks and comments, including a new sample that has just been added. We will be looking to add more examples,...

  1 April 2023
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  Paper 2 question bank

  Paper 2 questions will ask students to compare and contrast two of the works they have studied. The questions may take different forms, invite examination of any aspect of content, form or style and apply...

  23 February 2020
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  Paper 2: Comparative essay

  One of the exciting features of the Literature course relates to the way in which students are given free choices about the texts on which they want to write for some of the assessments. This, the second...

  30 January 2023
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  Practising Paper 1

  It may be a slightly obvious thing to say, but progress in this course depends more on the acquisition of a set of skills than the accumulation of a body of knowledge. And recognition of this carries...

  23 April 2021
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  Responses to poetry

  Paper 1 responses to poetryWhile some students claim to find poetry 'difficult', in many ways it is a literary form that many on the course come to find easier to analyse, partly because it is a form...

  6 December 2022
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  Paper 1: sample guiding questions

  Questions for guided literary analysisFor paper 1, guided literary analysis, students are given two unseen literary passages which can come from any of the four literary forms on the Prescribed Reading...

  30 October 2020
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  Responses to prose fiction

  Paper 1 responses to prose fictionFor many Literature students, prose fiction is their path into literature and remains their preferred genre for independent reading. However, while fictional prose is...

  27 November 2022
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  Responses to drama

  Paper 1 responses to drama While students often think of poetry - particularly unseen poetry - as something that is 'difficult' or challenging to understand, many drama texts can seem 'easier' to read...

  27 October 2021
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  Marking criteria

  Below you can find easily viewable assessment criteria for each examined component. These might be useful to project in class when you are engaged in marking an exemplar response, but also as a means...

  18 June 2021
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  Paper 1: a guide for students

  Guided Literary Analysis Alongside our student guide for Paper 2, we are now also developing a similar guide for Paper 1. This first page gives an overview of the examination, the differences between...

  30 June 2023
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  Responses to prose non-fiction

  Paper 1 responses to prose non-fictionPaper 1 extracts can come from works of non-fiction as well as fiction. Diaries, speeches, letters, travel writing, autobiography and journalism are some of the more...

  4 October 2022
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  Internal Assessment

  Replacing the IOP and IOC, the individual oral combines aspects of both previous assessments into one internal assessment task, which is the same for SL and HL students in terms of the nature of the task,...

  29 March 2020
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  Practising Paper 1: Graphic Novels

  “I'm going to examine cartooning as a form of amplification through simplification. When we abstract an image through cartooning, we're not so much eliminating details as we are focusing on specific...

  31 December 2023
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  Paper 1 Student revision pages

  Paper 1 student revision pagesLinked from this page are a series of pages designed for students with the aim of helping you to revise for paper 1. There is a myth that you cannot revise for Paper 1 as...

  10 April 2024
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  Paper 1 sample response #1

  The following example guided literary analysis is written in response to the poem 'The Bat' by Ruth Pitter and a guiding question focused on how the poet portrays the development of the speaker's attitude...

  27 April 2021
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  Paper 1 sample responses #4 and #5

  Higher Level responses to 'Blaze' by Christine WestOn this page you will find two HL responses to the same poem - Blaze by Christine West. It can be useful and interesting, for teachers and students,...

  27 April 2021
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  The table below gives an overview of the assessment components for both the Standard and Higher Level Literature courses. While there are familiar elements for those who have taught the previous iterations...

  12 December 2021