Prep IO and reflection of the IB programme this year

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

IO prep and Wrapping up your final year of IB 

Two  literary works:

• The White Tiger
• Poetry: Kendrick Lamar

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More bodies of work and non-literary texts

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Dutch exams:

Listening (audio + video)

CE reading (2.5 hours)

Looking ahead and back

IB exams!

• Paper 1 
• Paper 2
• IO

Important

Keep and save all your work and works for next year

- The literary works - do NOT throw them away

- Hand outs

- Your notes

- The texts (Texts and Thoughts + booklet to go with Kendrick Lamar)

- The learner portfolio

Reflection time

You are going to reflect on the past year. You can do this in any way you want - draw, make memes, write down what you can remember. 

 You can use that for inspiration for you upcoming IO.

Look at the next slide and take 5 minutes to reflect

Plan

Looking back a little bit more 

- Making links

- Reflection

- Evaluation

You say 'why?' I say: to make sense of things, bring it together, for you and me to learn from, 

closure

Looking ahead a little bit more 

- IO

You say 'why?' I say: I want to make sure I have covered everything and you cannot give next year's teacher this look

Task

I want you to get a piece of paper in front of you or, better even, an app for mindmaps

On the piece of paper, draw 10 circles with the following content - you will be connecting them later so make sure there is enough space

1) The White Tiger (literary)

2) I am born to do this: condemned by caste, Indian sewer cleaners risk death daily - 2018-The Guardian

3) Another woman - Imtiaz Dharker

4) Banksy art work

5)  Kendrick Lamar - body of work (literary)

7) I could have been a K-pop idol but I'm glad I quit - 2020-BBC

8) commencement speech Beyoncé - 2020 youtube

9) Black Lives Matter: liverpool 'not doing enough' over slavery links - 2020-BBC

10) Why Janet Jackson is pop's most underrated legend - 2019

Mindmap - think

Five minutes: 

Write down anything that comes to mind in terms of 'themes' or 'global issues' for each circle of your mindmap. 

Leave some space for ideas that will follow later. 

Mindmap - Global issues (IO)

During your IO, you will be analysing how two texts (one literary, one non-literary) engage with a global issue. 

You will see an overview of five fields of inquiry from which you can choose a topic/global issue:

• Culture, identity and community 
• Beliefs, values and education
• Politics, power and justice
• Art, creativity and the imagination
• Science, technology and the environment

Use these as a source of inspiration to add more ideas to your mindmap (5 minutes)

Wrapping up your final year of IB - 2

Mindmap - connections

Five minutes: 

Make connections between your circles and themes/global issues. 

Which links do
you make?
Text, topics, etc.

Global Issues (IO)

During your IO, you will be analysing how two texts (one literary, one non-literary) engage with a global issue. 

Global issues as you know them* (The White Tiger) corruption, patriotism, inequality, nationalism, class difference) are (DISCLAIMER: most likely) not the global issues the IB is looking for. They are 'topicy,' very broad. We will probably want to make them more specific.

Also

'Issues' sound like problems, but 'global issues' are not only negative. 

They have to meet these requirements: 

• It has a significance on a wide/large scale
• It is transnational
• Its impact is felt in everyday local contexts

Global issues

The key is to find the sweet spot between too broad and too narrow. 

Too broad: 

Corruption

Too narrow (local):

The government of a country has impeached their president on charges of corruption

Appropriate:

Corruption as an obstacle to achieving greater equality

Global issues

The key is to find the sweet spot between too broad and too narrow. 

Too broad: 

Gender equality

Too narrow (local):

Inequality between male and female members in a particular (social) group 

Appropriate:

The impact of culture on gender inequality

Global issues

The key is to find the sweet spot between too broad and too narrow. 

Too broad: 

Gender

Too narrow (local):

A woman did not get a job as a manager because of her gender

Appropriate:

Gender bias manifested in the work environment leads to income gap

Wrapping up your final year of IB -4

So what's next?

For the IO, choose at least one 'theme' from your mindmap that you have drawn between a literary work and a body of work. 

Insert your combination and your 'theme' or 'global issue' (the broad version) on the next slide. 

Which combination did you make and what would be the global issue?

Your IO

 You have to make sure that you choose an excerpt from your literary work (max 40 lines, 20-25 recommended) that reflects the global issue of your choice as well as an excerpt from your non-literary (BOW) (max 40 lines, 20-25 recommended) or stills or just one advertisement (etc) that reflects the same global issues. 

The authors of the texts do not have to have the same approach to the global issue; they just have it in common. 

You will also want to connect your extract to the rest of the literary work and the rest of the author's body of work. 

IO - Summary

1. choose a global issue

2. choose max of 40 lines of literary work (min 20)

3. choose max of 40 lines of non-literary text (min 20)

4. fill in the outline form (in jaarbijlagen SOM; do not use full sentences, only phrases, 

5. make copies for your teacher (3x2 copies: 1) literary extract, 2)non-literary extract, 3) outline form)

6. prepare unannotated copies for your exam (preferably, number the lines)

7. study marking criteria for Individual Oral exam (assessment rubric uploaded in SOM)

8. submit all required copies 3 days before the oral and don't forget to sign in for your exam

This was it. 

We have reflected, connected the dots (I hope) and evaluated. 

We have also explored the IO.

You know something about everything. 

Go and WOW me with your IO as well as your teacher next year. I hope it will be me but chances (90 %) are that it will be someone else. 

Make yourself proud ! 

And remember that the IB doesn't stop at the end of a school year or at graduation......