- Academic Honesty
- Aims and Objectives
- Areas of Exploration
- Conceptual Understanding
- Cultural Semiotics
- Global Issues
- Class Documents
- Assessment Criteria
- Short Fiction and Essays
- Born A Crime
- Non-Literary Texts
- The Things They Carried
- For Further Reading
- Learner Portfolio
Higher Level Essay Weighting: 20%
- Identity —how does Ralph Ellison, in his novel Invisible Man, succeed in making his narrator a convincing spokesperson for the concerns of African-Americans in the 20th century?
- Culture —how does Robert Capa represent post-Second World War France to qualify/exemplify the brutalities of the French population on former Nazi collaborators in La Femme Tondue? (Language A: language and literature only)
- Creativity —how do Mario Testino’s portraits manage to convey the personalities of those portrayed in original ways? (Language A: language and literature only)
- Communication-- which view of love does Matt Groening convey in Love is Hell? (Language A: language and literature only)
- Transformation-- in what ways does The Alan Parsons Project’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination offer a transformative re-reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s tales?
- Perspective-- how does Mary Shelley’s protagonist in Frankenstein use the motif of dangerous knowledge to show the perspective of fear and anxiety of excesses in scientific enterprise in early 19th century Europe?
- Representation-- through what means does Juan Rulfo successfully convey the representation of realistic and non-realistic characters and situations in Pedro Páramo?
- How does F. Scott Fitzgerald foreshadow how Gatsby’s unnatural attachment to the past causes his downfall in TheGreat Gatsby?
- In what ways would Marxist theory about the stratification of wealth and power explain the violence that runs through the action of the novel A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez?
- To what extent was the characterization of the protagonist in Patrick Süskind´s Perfume influenced by Franz Kafka´s The Metamorphosis?
The Learner Portfolio and the Higher Level Essay
- Reflect on the ways in which each text they read relates to the seven central concepts of the course .
- Keep an ongoing record of themes and issues they find interesting in relation to each of the texts they read.
- Explore how key passages in the texts they have studied are significant in relation to those themes and issues.
- Trace the evolution of their thinking and planning in connection with their chosen topic.
- Record references for, and ideas and quotations from, secondary sources they might want to mention in their essay.
- Reflect on the challenges that the HL essay poses for them as individual learners.
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