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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.

Paper 1 | Key Features | Melons Strategy

Solved Samples

• Travel Writing
• Comic Strips
• Advertisement
• Appeals
• Advisory Texts
• Biography
• Blogs / Webpages
• Brochure/Leaflet
• Cartoons
• Appeals
• Descriptive Passages
• Diaries
• Emails.
• Encyclopedia Entries.
• Films and Commercials
• Infographics.
• Informational Texts.
• Interviews.
• Letters.
• Magazine Covers.
• Magazine Articles
• Manifesto.
• Memoirs.
• News Article.
• News Report.
• Opinion Columns
• Pastiche
• Playscripts.
• Photographs.
• Parodies.
• Radio Broadcast.
• Recruitment Campaigns
• Speeches.
• Scientific Articles.
• Satirical Cartoons.
• Street Art.
• Texts for Children
• TV Shows.

Paper 2

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• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald + ThematiQ
• Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
• All My Sons – Arthur Miller
• Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• Hedda Gabler – Henrik Ibsen
• Songs of Innocence – William Blake
• Lord of the Flies – William Golding
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
• 1984 – George Orwell
• The Woman at Point Zero – Nawal El Saadawi

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• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
• One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
• Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
• The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
• Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
• The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
• Beloved – Toni Morrison
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
• A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller
• A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
• Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe
• Animal Farm” by George Orwell
• Beloved – Toni Morrison
• Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
• The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
• Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
• Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
• The Tempest – William Shakespeare
• A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold = Gabriel García Márquez
• Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
• The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
• Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
• The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
• The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
• One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
• Hamlet – William Shakespeare
• The Color Purple – Alice Walker
• Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
• The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
• Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston
• Atonement – Ian McEwan
• The Road – Cormac McCarthy
• Byeble – Biju John
• Noli Me Tangere – José Rizal
• The Stranger – Albert Camus
• Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

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Individual Oral

30% of your Marks Come from IO. A 10-minute oral and a 5-minute discussion on two prepared passages chosen by the student – one literary passage and one non-literary passage, connected by a ‘global issue‘ of choice. Marks: 30. Total Time: 15 Minutes.
Solved Samples

• 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.
• Intertextuality
• Themes (Similarities and Differences).
• Characterization.
• Settings.
• Styles.
• Narrative Techniques.
• Social, Political, Cultural Implications.
• Authors’ techniques.

Extended Essay

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.

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