Diploma Programme subject outline—studies in language and literature

Name of the DP subject

(indicate the language) English A Literature

Level
Higher
X Standard completed in two years Standard completed in one year *
(indicate with X)

* All Diploma Programme courses are designed as two-year learning experiences. However, up to two standard level subjects can be completed in one year (excluding languages ab initio and pilot
subjects), as outlined in the IB publication Diploma Programme Assessment procedures.

Topic Contents Assessment instruments to be used

(as identified in the IB subject guide)
State the topics in the order you are planning to teach
them.

Year 1  The Metamorphosis by Franz

AoE :Readers, Writer, and Texts Kafka 
Concepts : Identity, Creativity, and  Wilfred Owen, poems 
Communication IA (Internal Assessment = Individual Oral)
 Dust Tracks on a Road by Zora HL Essay
Neale Hurston  Learner Portfolio

AoE : Time and Space  So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba 

Concepts: Culture, Perspective  Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen  IA
 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan HL Essay
Swift  Learner Portfolio
 The Stranger by Albert Camus 
 Year 2 AoE : Intertextuality : Connecting texts
Concepts : Transformation and  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert
Representation Louis Stevenson 
 Hamlet by William Shakespeare (IA)
Learner Portfolio
 Essays by Joan Didion  
 The Picture of Dorian Gray or The Paper 1
Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar
Wilde  Paper 2
 End Game by Samuel Beckett 
 Poetry by Jackie Kay 

PLEASE NOTE :

 As with all plans, aspects are subject to change due to numbers and book availabilty. Be assured, however, that the course will meet the requirements as
set by IB. The ability or inability to distribute hard copies of works affects the wrks we may be able to use. A list of additional possibilities is below.
 The Learner Portfolio is an assessment / learning tool required by IB to work cumulatively throughout the two years, and must remain accessible at the
school until the Spring semester after a student’s graduation. This is for authentication purposes. The learner Portfolio is a self-assessment tool that will
consist of a large variety of written work completed by the student throughout the duration of the course and will ideally aid the student in the generation
and development of concepts and ideas that are relevant and useful in the four major assessments, all of which will be explained and prepared for in detail
during the course.

Additional Possible Works

Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Poetry: Bob Dylan
‘Master Harold’…and the boys by Athol Fugard
The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein