All About Paper 1 SL

Time, Weight, and Format

• Duration: 1.5 hrs
• Weight: 25% of your course grade
• An analysis on one previously unseen text

Course Part/Exam Format

• Corresponds most strongly to Part 1 and Part 2 of the Language and Literature course.
• Response will most likely be to a non literary text, though it is possible that you could receive a poem, excerpt from a book, etc.

Format

• When you sit down, you will receive...

Untitled Slide

• Two single texts, both of which will have two guiding questions at the end.

Instructions

• Choose ONE text to respond to.
• Read and annotate your text.
• Pay attention to the guiding questions, as these can help you format a thesis and arguments.
• Construct an essay that provides a deep analysis of your text.
• Focus on thematic message and stylistic devices

Possible text types...

• advertisement
• opinion column
• extract from an essay/novel/memoir
• brochure
• poem
• political commentary
• blog entry

What to look for (A.C.T.S.)

• Audience and purpose
• Content and Theme
• Tone and Mood
• Style and Structure

Audience and Purpose

• Who is this targeted to?
• What kind of text is it?
• Why was it produced?

Content and Theme

• What is the text about?
• What are the main ideas the author conveys?

Tone and Mood

• Serious? Angry? Encouraging? Informative? Satirical?
• Is the atmosphere bleak? relaxed? mysterious? etc.

Style and Structure

• Do you see a stance or a bias?
• How are you, the reader, engaged/hooked?
• Is there use of humor?
• What tone is created? How do you know?
• How is it developed or organized? What about sentence structure?
• What signifies weight and importance?

Graded by:

• Criterion A: Understanding of the text
• Criterion B: Understanding the use and effects of stylistic features
• Criterion C: Organization and Development
• Criterion D: Language