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The IBDP English A program emphasizes critical analysis, comparative study, and understanding of both literary and non-literary texts. It requires students to engage deeply with texts, considering various analytical perspectives and contextual factors to develop a comprehensive understanding of language and literature.

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• PRLs and Bows

PAPER 1

• Key Features
• Melons Strategy
• Assessment Criteria

Samples

1. Advertisement
2. Appeals
3. Advisory Texts
4. Biography
5. Blogs / Webpages
6. Brochure/Leaflet
7. Cartoons
8. Appeals
9. Comic Strips
10. Descriptive Passages
11. Diaries.
12. Emails
13. Encyclopedia Entries
14. Films and Commercials
15. Infographics
16. Informational Texts
17. Interviews
18. Letters
19. Magazine Covers
20. Magazine Articles
21. Manifesto
22. Memoirs
23. News Article
24. News Report
25. Opinion Columns
26. Pastiche
27. Playscripts
28. Photographs
29. Parodies
30. Radio Broadcast
31. Recruitment Campaigns
32. Speeches
33. Scientific Articles
34. Satirical Cartoons
35. Street Art
36. Texts for Children
37. Travel Writing 1
38. Travel Writing 2
39. TV Shows

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Paper 2

• IBDP English A Paper 2
• Sample 1 – Nickel Boys and Barefoot Gen

High Level Essay (HLE)

• How to Essay (Melons Strategy)
• Frida Kahlo

Individual Oral

• IBDP English – Individual Oral

Tools to Dig the IB Garden

• Colors in Literary Analysis (IB, IBDP, IGCSE)
• Areas of Exploration | AOE
• Frequently Required Figures of Speech (IB, IGCSE)
• IBDP English A Concepts
• IBDP English A – Assessment Criteria.
• Themes (Similarities and Differences).
• Characterization.
• Settings.
• Styles.
• Narrative Techniques.
• Social, Political, Cultural Implications.
• Authors’ techniques.
• Global Issues.

PRLs and BOWs

Below are some works with which you can start your Essays and IO.

• William Blake: London
• Margaret Atwood: Handmaid’s Tale
• Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis
• Sing, Unburied.
• Jamaica Kincaid: A Small Place.
• Keiji Nakazava: Barefoot Gen 1
• Colson Whitehead: Nickel Boys
• Areil Dorfman: Death and the Maiden
• Jumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of Maladies
• Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
• Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler

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• Never Let Me Go
• The Great Gatsby
• Things Fall Apart
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist (New).
• Fever Dream
• Interpreter of Maladies
• Mother Courage
• Serial – Season 1
• Malcom X Speeches
• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

Upcoming

• Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
• Nathaniel Hawthorne: Scarlet Letter
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Extended Essay (EE)

Apart from Paper 1, Paper 2 and Individual Oral, you have to prepare and submit an extended essay, much like a thesis paper.

• Extended Essay.

PrepBooks

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