Language A: language and literature Internal Assessment

Student outline form

Global Issue: “Seeking justice and equality can lead to a revolt against corrupt leaders.”
Texts chosen:
Literary work: Animal Farm, published 1945, by George Orwell
Non-literary work: From the film series, “The Hunger Games”—“Mockingjay Part II,
published 2015, directed by Francis Lawrence and produced by Nina Jacobson

Notes for the oral (maximum of 10 bullet points) :

Introduction (1 min)
1. Intro texts and authors, presentation of the GI—important worldwide

Extract 1—from Animal Farm (2 min)

2. Old Major’s speech—changes the other animals’ perspectives—spark for their revolution (GI reflected in
questions as a metaphor to real life –lines 1-3, 11-12)

3., hyperbole (line 4), rhetorical questions (lines 20-40), slogans (line 16, 16-18)

Entire BOW—Animal Farm (2 min)

4. GI presented in whole novel: repetitive slogan (4 good, 2 bad), shifting power -war against man – ch.3
Snowball worse

5. Animals revolt again, slogan (4 good, 2 better), quote from Ch. 10— “all animals are equal but some are
more equal than others”

Extract 2—from Mockingjay Part II (2 min)

6. Connection to GI—lang. and imagery, camera shots/angles, man’s feelings and shift from S1-S2 juxtaposed
w/lang.- line 5, lines 7-9, big issue 10-11

7. S3: colors used, spotlight, scene, metaphor, Lines 16-20, lang. emphasizes GI and lines 19-20

Entire BOW—the whole film series and Mockingjay Part II (2 min)

8. Overall how series presents the GI, how presented further in this film in particular

9. Examples given from the film: black slime w/meaning: texture and feeling, shooting: life will never be fair

Conclusion (1 min)
10. both - GI—speeches, hierarchy, “all people equal, but some believe they are more than others,” EX: Syria,
marginalization

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