Preparing for Paper 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Paper One: textual analysis

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

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

Non-literary
Text types

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

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.

So, what do you do with that guiding question????

1. Answer it
2. Eat it
3. Use it: the line of inquiry
4. Deconstruct it

Can you analyze the purpose of the text?

1. No!
2. Yes!

How can you analyze tone?

1. Sentence structure
2. Register
3. Diction
4. Grammar

Is it important to analyze grammar & punctuation?

1. Sort of
2. No
3. These mechanics don't tell a reader anything
4. Yes

What is the key mantra to focus on in analyzing a paper 1?

1. quality not quantity
2. Author - Choice - Effect
3. Characters, Setting, Theme
4. Literary & Poetic Devices

Identify the four criteria upon which assessment is based:

Which fallacy in logic is: the fallacy consists of attacking or supporting the person, not the argument?

1. Ad hominem fallacy
2. False dilemma
3. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc

A list of items, without the use of conjunctions - which rhetorical device is this?

1. Antithesis
2. Tricolon
3. Hypophora
4. Asyndeton

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

1. tricolon
2. anaphora
3. antithesis
4. enumeratio

Can you say a reader is activated by the techniques an author uses?

1. Hell Yes
2. Maybe
3. Hell No
4. Only at lunch

Paper 1 Skills

Identify and articulate PURPOSE

How?

From inference & description to INTERPRETATION leading to

ANALYSIS

Audience

YES!!

"effects of *** upon the reader"

What is the relationship between words & images?

Where to start?

Annotate

Visual Texts

Images communicate ideas through signifiers

Composition

Negative Space

Headlines/Symbols/Lighting/Color

Tagline/Slogan/Copy

How is meaning being constructed?

Bias/Propoganda

Culturally relevant

Dates!!

Caricature

Irony

What is emanata?

What is a punch line?