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=**Simple Guide – IB English - Standard**=


 * 1. WORLD LIT COURSEWORK (20%)**

Mishima – The Sailor Who Fell From Grace To The Sea Boll – The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Susskind – Perfume

1 comparative essay


 * 2. FORMAL ORAL COMMENTARY (15%)**

Shakespeare – Othello Wole Soyinka Judith Wright Seamus Heaney

Internally assessed, externally moderated.


 * 3. PAPER 2 (25%)**

Sophocles – Oedipus Rex (World Lit Text) Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest Tennessee Williams – A Streetcar Named Desire

Closed Book Exam (1 ½ hrs) – one question, either genre-based or more generally applicable.


 * 4. INDIVIDUAL ORAL PRESENTATIONS (15%)**

Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale Glen Harwood Robert Browning John Donne Federico Garcia Lorca - The House of Bernarda Alba

School’s choice of texts – internally assessed.


 * 5. Paper 1 – Unseen Paper (25%)**

1 1/2 hour paper – two texts – uses ‘leading’ questions – prose (not necessarily fiction) and poetry.