Task 2
Written Task 2
ONLY HL
Written tasks
One of the tasks submitted for external
assessment must be based on a literary text studied in part 3or part 4 of the course.
(The Awakening, Katherine Mansfield short stories, Sylvia Plath Poetry, A Doll’s House,
Interpreter of Maladies ss and Pride and
Prejudice)
The other must be based on material studied in
the language option ( Media and
Advertisement).
Formal requirements for tasks 2
One of the tasks submitted for external assessment must be a critical response to one of 6 prescribed questions
Aims of task 2
to consider in greater detail the material studied in the
different parts of the language A: language and literature course to reflect and question in greater depth the values,
beliefs and attitudes that are implied in the texts Studied
to encourage students to view texts in a number of ways
to enable students to give an individual response to the
way in which texts can be understood in the light of the prescribed questions.
Outline
A rationale is not included with task 2. Instead,
students are expected to complete an outline
This outline must be completed in class time and
must include:
1. the prescribed question that has been chosen
2. the title of the text(s) for analysis
3. the part of the course to which the task refers
4. three or four key points that explain the particular focus of the task.
Structure
The critical response is in the style of a
formal essay and must be clearly structured with an introduction, clearly developed ideas or arguments and a conclusion.
Reader, culture and text
1. How could the text be read and interpreted
by two different readers?
2.
If the text had been written in a different time or place or language or for a different audience, how and why might it differ?
Power and privilege
1. How and why is a social group represented
in a particular way?
2. Which social groups are marginalized,
excluded or silenced within the text?
Text and genre
1. How
ONLY HL
Written tasks
One of the tasks submitted for external
assessment must be based on a literary text studied in part 3or part 4 of the course.
(The Awakening, Katherine Mansfield short stories, Sylvia Plath Poetry, A Doll’s House,
Interpreter of Maladies ss and Pride and
Prejudice)
The other must be based on material studied in
the language option ( Media and
Advertisement).
Formal requirements for tasks 2
One of the tasks submitted for external assessment must be a critical response to one of 6 prescribed questions
Aims of task 2
to consider in greater detail the material studied in the
different parts of the language A: language and literature course to reflect and question in greater depth the values,
beliefs and attitudes that are implied in the texts Studied
to encourage students to view texts in a number of ways
to enable students to give an individual response to the
way in which texts can be understood in the light of the prescribed questions.
Outline
A rationale is not included with task 2. Instead,
students are expected to complete an outline
This outline must be completed in class time and
must include:
1. the prescribed question that has been chosen
2. the title of the text(s) for analysis
3. the part of the course to which the task refers
4. three or four key points that explain the particular focus of the task.
Structure
The critical response is in the style of a
formal essay and must be clearly structured with an introduction, clearly developed ideas or arguments and a conclusion.
Reader, culture and text
1. How could the text be read and interpreted
by two different readers?
2.
If the text had been written in a different time or place or language or for a different audience, how and why might it differ?
Power and privilege
1. How and why is a social group represented
in a particular way?
2. Which social groups are marginalized,
excluded or silenced within the text?
Text and genre
1. How