DP News: Lang.Lit. Individual Oral Commentaries

This week Ms. Julie Frederick's Language and Literature students are engaging in the Individual Oral Commentaries (IOC). This internal assessment is worth 15% of the students' IBDP Lang. Lit. grade and is a nail biter for many students because it is one of the first high-stakes assessments. The IOC is a 15 minute oral commentary about a passage from a book, poem, or play read during the course of the semester.  Students read two (SL) or three (HL) works this spring, 1984 (George Orwell), poems from Carol Ann Duffy, the UK's poet laureate, and A Streetcar Named Desire a play by Tennessee Williams. Students randomly select a pre-prepared passage and are given 20 minutes to prepare their commentary. Students' commentaries are a critical examination of the extract and allow students to analyze the relationship between formal literary elements and meaning in the text they select. Good luck language and literature students!

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