IB English HL Year 1
(Junior English)
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Welcome. This class is the first year of a two year course and satisfies Group 1 in the IB hexagon. Both years must be completed for the IB diploma. Successful completion of this program earns the student a diploma recognized for university admission throughout the world and for course credit and advanced placement within colleges; therefore, the student is expected to perform at levels efficient for such credit.
Language A: literature aims:
Here you will find resources and other information that will help you throughout the year. Be sure to take my online poll!
Welcome. This class is the first year of a two year course and satisfies Group 1 in the IB hexagon. Both years must be completed for the IB diploma. Successful completion of this program earns the student a diploma recognized for university admission throughout the world and for course credit and advanced placement within colleges; therefore, the student is expected to perform at levels efficient for such credit.
Language A: literature aims:
- Develop in students an understanding of the techniques involved in literary criticism.
- Develop the students’ ability to form independent literary judgments and to support those ideas.
- Introduce students to a range of tests from different periods, styles, and genres.
- Develop in students the ability to engage in close, detailed analysis of individual texts and make relevant connections.
- Develop the students’ powers of expression, both in oral and written communication.
- Encourage students to recognize the importance of the contexts in which texts are written and received.
- Encourage, through the study of texts, an appreciation of the different perspectives of people from other cultures, and how these perspectives construct meaning.
- Encourage students to appreciate the formal, stylistic and aesthetic qualities of texts.
- Promote in students an enjoyment of, and lifelong interest in, language and literature.
Here you will find resources and other information that will help you throughout the year. Be sure to take my online poll!
Course information
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Kite Runner Assignments
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Things Fall Apart
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Jonathan Swift
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Scarlet Letter
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Hamlet
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