Areas of Exploration
The areas of study with related texts and assessment tasks
What are the Areas of Exploration, or AOE?
The attitudes, beliefs, and customs that distinguish one group from another
What is culture?
Examples of these include newspapers, television programmes, and magazines
What is the media?
The artists who developed an auditory and visual text which highlighted the racial inequalities in America
Who is Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover?
Daily Show host and author who details his experiences with apartheid in South Africa in an autobiographical novel.
Who is Trevor Noah?
aims to introduce students to the notion and purpose of literature, close reading and analysis, and the ways in which texts can be read, interpreted and responded to.
What is Readers, writers and texts?
The theory that the English language is becoming a global commodity.
What is globalisation of the English language?
The attributes that people think characterise a specific group of people, eg women
What is stereotyping?
The cultural, historical, and social references significant to understanding a work
What is context?
Brief, personal narratives that provide the listener/reader with some understanding of the experiences that shaped the author/speaker
What is an anecdote?
draws attention to the fact that texts are not isolated entities, but are connected to space and time (ie the texts’ various contexts of production).
What Time and Space?
The requirement for students to think about their choices in the written work they've created for the course.
What is a rationale?
A phenomenon whereby the rate of uptake of beliefs, ideas, fads and trends increases the more that they have already been adopted by others.
What is the bandwagon effect?
Tone/mood, stylistic devices, structure, content/theme, audience/purpose
What are the Big 5 of textual analysis and commentary?
Author that wrote "If you’re looking for the heralds of a “post-racial” America, if that adjective is ever to be more than a stupid, unlettered flourish, then look to those, like Michelle Obama, with a sense of security in who they are—those, black or white, who hold blackness as more than the losing end of racism."
Who is Ta-Nehisi Coates?
focuses on the connections between and among diverse texts, traditions, creators and ideas. This involves the comparative study of literary texts to make connections and gain a deeper understanding of the texts.
What is Intertextuality: connecting texts?
The way an author uses sentiment or language to convey a purpose
What are stylistic devices?
The internal assessment in English Language and Literature
What is the Individual Oral Assessment?
A text which aims to persuade the reader/viewer/listener
What is an appeal?
The act of closely interpreting the purpose of a text using key words and phrases from the work
What is analysis?
The Area of Exploration most utilized this school year in Language and Literature (provide reasoning and evidence)
Answers will vary
A close analysis of an extract of a written work to understand its purpose, target audience, and context
What is a written commentary (Paper 1)?
The IB moderated activities in English Language and Literature
What are the Creative Written Task and Individual Oral Commentary?
An essay in which you look at similarities and differences across two texts
What is a comparative essay (Paper 2)?
(his essays center around) cultural, social, and political issues, particularly regarding African Americans.
What are the topics and themes of Ta-Nehisi Coates' writing?