Language A: Language and Literature
Day 1
Session 1: Patrick Holmes
Introduction
Similarities and differences: discussion of the nature of the current course
The A1 language and literature course is very much about texts as a whole, both in terms of the language used and its relation the images to which it has been bound.
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A: Attract attention
I: Develop interest
D: Develop desire
A: Move to Action
Type
Audience
Purpose
Effectiveness
Rule of Thirds
Session 2: Patrick Holmes
Nature of the subject, links to TOK & Learner profile. Difference between SL/HL
The course syllabus:
4 parts
Key word is: CONTEXT!
Part 1-3 are driven by context, what you do in part 2 is driven by part 1,3.
The Assessments:
Differences SL /HL (see guide)
Session 3: Patrick Holmes
Approaches to the IB course (see blog)
- Objectives and aims
- Ideas
- Literary works
- Parts (1-4)
- Holistic (preferred: topical issues taken into account)
Part 1: Language in cultural context
Possible topics (p.18 guide)
f.e. The climate change controversies example (environment)
http://royalsociety.org/Climate-change-controversies-a-simple-guide/
How is the message getting across? Focus on language.
Part 1: topics, materials
To study topic: language and power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_889oBKkNU
(Obama’s speech Cairo)
To study topic: language and gender: ‘Can’t buy my love’ / advertisement DOVE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omBfg3UwkYM (evolution commercial)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfAKSpj_96M&feature=fvst (beauty pressure)
Hammer & Coop (mini cooper ad)
BMW ad- Clive Owen (rule of thirds)
(see blog)
Session 5: Patrick Holmes
Part 2: Language and Mass Communication
Newspapers and Advertisements
Useful sites:
www.filestube.com : Newswipe, Gameswipe, How TV ruined your life
www.teachertube.com
www.tedtalks.com
www.keepvid.com
www.youtube.com : Men’s brains, women’s brains
Merchants of Cool : paradox of Cool: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/
Session 6: Patrick Holmes
Part 3: Literature Texts and Contexts
2 genres
- Drama
- Poetry
- Prose: Novel/ Short Story
- Prose: other than Novel / Short story
2 periods
Example Video: (hook) to introduce the concept of film / Screenplay
Michael Clayton (Clooney)
(see blog)
Session 7: Patrick Holmes
Part 4: Literature Critical study
Menu for textual analysis:
v
2 works PLA, in service of the oral commentary/ internal assessment
(oral commentary: 20 minutes)
Session 8: Patrick Holmes
Assessment Details
Important info on WT
HL Written task 2 (essay, not creative, response question)
Part 3 q 1-4 SUBMIT 1
Part 4 q5-6
HL Written task 1 (text types possible are on p20 syllabus handbook)
Part 1 SUBMIT 1
Part 2
Session 9: Patrick Holmes
Today’s programme
Part 1 revisited
1 Oral
Further Orals
Assessment details
1. Part One (20-25 texts, Dossier?)
Assessment: creative WT 1, Paper 1, Internal further Orals
SL 2-3 contexts (fe gender, power and environment)
HL 4-5 contexts
Two key academic texts about language taken from Journals (fe power and language, gender, sociolinguistics, p18 syllabus, p9 workbook)
- Project Muse, free 1 month http://muse.jhu.edu/
Mass Media x5 (1 context) film review, editorial, political cartoons (www.cartoonmovement.com) , advertisement
Literary x5 (1 context)
Textbook x5 (1 context)
Other x4 (1 context)
-The Triumph of English
-The economist
-the New York Times
Key question is: How does the language influence the audience?
2. Part Two
Assessment: Creative WT 1, Paper 1, Internal further Orals
-A modest Proposal (example text)
Newspapers
Advertising
- www.vjmovement.com (videos on global issues, back-up materials)
Resources: p 82 workbook
3. Further Orals:
Introduction to using ppt: Guy Kawasaki: Presentation Rule http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liQLdRk0Ziw
2 further orals: one on part 1, one on part 2 ( 20 minutes each), 1 is submitted
Students have to write a reflection on the presentations.
Example further orals: p 62 syllabus
Buy, Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds (Gebundene Ausgabe)
Consuming Kids: Protecting Our Children from the Onslaught of Marketing & Advertising (Taschenbuch)
Branded: The Buying And Selling Of Teenagers (Paperback)
Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes (Paperback)
Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel 
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Paperback)
Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy (Open Media) (Paperback)
Mediated: How the Media Shape Your World 
Propaganda, Inc.: Selling America's Culture to the World (Open Media S.) 