Written Task 2: Critical Response 10% of final DP mark
Aims of the critical response
Task 2 takes the form of a critical response and is a requirement of the HL course only. The aims of task 2 are:
Formal Requirements:
Task 2 is a critical response to one of these six questions. The prescribed questions are designed to be as open as possible and are intended to highlight broad areas within which students can explore and develop their responses to the texts. Where appropriate, task 2 must reference, in a bibliography, the relevant support documentation such as the newspaper article or magazine advertisement on which it is based. Where a complete shorter text is chosen (for example, a newspaper article or an advertisement from a magazine) students may refer to other texts to support their response. The critical response is in the style of a formal essay and must be clearly structured with an introduction, clearly developed ideas or arguments and a conclusion.
Prescribed Questions:
Reader Culture and Text
Power and Privilege
Text and Genre
Task 2 takes the form of a critical response and is a requirement of the HL course only. The aims of task 2 are:
- to consider in greater detail the material studied in the four parts of the language A: language and literature course
- to reflect and question in greater depth the values, beliefs and attitudes that are implied in the texts studied
- to encourage students to view texts in a number of ways
- to enable students to give an individual response to the way in which texts can be understood in the light of the prescribed questions.
Formal Requirements:
Task 2 is a critical response to one of these six questions. The prescribed questions are designed to be as open as possible and are intended to highlight broad areas within which students can explore and develop their responses to the texts. Where appropriate, task 2 must reference, in a bibliography, the relevant support documentation such as the newspaper article or magazine advertisement on which it is based. Where a complete shorter text is chosen (for example, a newspaper article or an advertisement from a magazine) students may refer to other texts to support their response. The critical response is in the style of a formal essay and must be clearly structured with an introduction, clearly developed ideas or arguments and a conclusion.
Prescribed Questions:
Reader Culture and Text
- How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers?
- If the text had been written in a different time or place or language or for a different audience, how and why might it differ?
Power and Privilege
- How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?
- Which social groups are marginalized, excluded or silenced within the text?
Text and Genre
- How does the text conform to, or deviate from, the conventions of a particular genre, and for what purpose?
- How has the text borrowed from other texts, and with what effects?
Outline
Instead of a rationale, students are expected to complete an outline on a designated form. For practice purposes, complete your outline on the form below.
Instead of a rationale, students are expected to complete an outline on a designated form. For practice purposes, complete your outline on the form below.
outline_-_wt2.docx | |
File Size: | 36 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Sample Outline: IB wants bullet points with complete sentences
Example: Part of the course related to: Language and Cultural Context
Example: Part of the course related to: Language and Cultural Context
- This will examine the language of gender used when referring to women and men
- It will analyze how and why might the original change if it had been written as a parody quick list for a modern women’s magazine.
- This essay will also examine the social contexts and gender roles of men and women during the writing of the original and the social settings of the parody.
Rubric
lang_and_lit_wt2_hl_essay.docx | |
File Size: | 23 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Possible WT texts for Language and Culture
Formatting your WT2
Before you submit your final draft, ensure that it contains all of the necessary components. Follow the list below AND have a look at the sample WT2s to get a sense of what it should look like.
Before you submit your final draft, ensure that it contains all of the necessary components. Follow the list below AND have a look at the sample WT2s to get a sense of what it should look like.
Format: Order your WT2 in the following way. Numbers 1-3 should all be on separate pages.
Others: Include page numbers on each page |
Sample WT2s from other schools. There is no right or wrong way to format the cover page, but I recommend following the structure of the first sample.
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