Preparing for Paper 1

Paper One: textual analysis
Some questions, some information, some challenges: how much do you know? How prepared are you?
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Paper One: textual analysis
Some questions, some information, some challenges: how much do you know? How prepared are you?

Slide 1 - Slide

HL

2h 15 minutes
two commentaries on each of two non-literary texts

35% of your IB grade
SL

1 h 15 minutes
one commentary on one of two non-literary texts

35% of your IB grade

Slide 2 - Slide

Non-literary
Text types

Slide 3 - Mind map

Advertisement
Appeal
Blog
Brochure
Textbook
Speech
Set of instructions
Cartoon
Infographic
Electronic texts
Report
Radio broadcast/Podcast
Guide book
Magazine article
Eulogy
Application Letter
Offical report
Feature article

Slide 4 - Slide

Guiding Question?
One guiding question will be provided for each passage on a central technical or formal element that may provide an interesting point of entry into the text. Although it is not compulsory to answer this question, students should be aware they need to address a point of entry into the text based upon the direction of the guiding question. Students may propose an alternative point of entry about any other technical or formal element of the text they feel important in order to provide such a focus.

Slide 5 - Slide

So, what do you do with that guiding question????
A
Answer it
B
Eat it
C
Use it: the line of inquiry
D
Deconstruct it

Slide 6 - Quiz

Can you analyze the purpose of the text?
A
No!
B
Yes!

Slide 7 - Quiz

How can you analyze tone?
A
Sentence structure
B
Register
C
Diction
D
Grammar

Slide 8 - Quiz

Is it important to analyze grammar & punctuation?
A
Sort of
B
No
C
These mechanics don't tell a reader anything
D
Yes

Slide 9 - Quiz

What is the key mantra to focus on in analyzing a paper 1?
A
quality not quantity
B
Author - Choice - Effect
C
Characters, Setting, Theme
D
Literary & Poetic Devices

Slide 10 - Quiz

Identify the four criteria upon which assessment is based:

Slide 11 - Open question

Which fallacy in logic is: the fallacy consists of attacking or supporting the person, not the argument?
A
Ad hominem fallacy
B
False dilemma
C
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc

Slide 12 - Quiz

A list of items, without the use of conjunctions - which rhetorical device is this?
A
Antithesis
B
Tricolon
C
Hypophora
D
Asyndeton

Slide 13 - Quiz

These are examples of:
• To err is human; to forgive, divine. – Pope
• That short and easy trip made a lasting and profound change in Harold's outlook.
• That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. – Neil Armstrong
A
tricolon
B
anaphora
C
antithesis
D
enumeratio

Slide 14 - Quiz

Can you say a reader is activated by the techniques an author uses?
A
Hell Yes
B
Maybe
C
Hell No
D
Only at lunch

Slide 15 - Quiz

Paper 1 Skills
Identify and articulate PURPOSE
How?
From inference & description to INTERPRETATION leading to
ANALYSIS

Slide 16 - Slide

Audience
YES!!

"effects of *** upon the reader"

Slide 17 - Slide

What is the relationship between words & images?

Slide 18 - Slide

Where to start?
Annotate

Slide 19 - Slide

Visual Texts
Images communicate ideas through signifiers
Composition
Negative Space
Headlines/Symbols/Lighting/Color
Tagline/Slogan/Copy

Slide 20 - Slide

How is meaning being constructed?

Bias/Propoganda
Culturally relevant
Dates!!
Caricature
Irony

Slide 21 - Slide

What is emanata?

Slide 22 - Open question

What is a punch line?

Slide 23 - Open question

Slide 24 - Slide