IB English Lang Lit SL study plan

Map how a reader's context shapes meaning by annotating two short prose extracts for explicit and implied reader positioning

Distinguish author, narrator, and implied author in three passages and record the evidence for each distinction

Build a working definition of 'context of production' and 'context of reception' and test it against one advertisement and one poem

Draft a one-paragraph thesis linking a writer's choices to a reader effect, then revise it for precision

Analyse how form and structure create meaning by comparing a sonnet and a free-verse poem on a shared theme

Catalogue register, diction, and syntax features in a non-literary text and explain their persuasive function

Practise embedding short quotations rather than block quoting in analytical paragraphs

Self-assess two paragraphs against a criteria checklist and rewrite the weaker one

Situate a literary text in its historical moment and identify three textual details that register that moment

Trace how a single motif shifts meaning across three texts from different periods

Explain how a text's reception changes when read outside its original time and place

Construct a timeline linking your two works in translation or your two studied literary works to their contexts

Compare how two texts from different eras treat an identical theme, naming the specific formal differences

Draft three Paper 2-style comparative thesis statements and stress-test each for arguability

Identify and correct presentism in your own analysis of an older text

Select and justify six quotations that could serve two different Paper 2 prompts

Identify three deliberate allusions or intertextual echoes in your studied works and explain the effect of each

Compare how two texts adapt or subvert a shared genre convention

Analyse a non-literary text that responds to a literary work, naming the rhetorical move it makes

Draft a paragraph that uses one text to illuminate another without collapsing their differences

Complete two timed 60-minute guided textual analyses on unseen texts under exam conditions

Apply a repeatable annotation routine: identify audience, purpose, register, and three structural choices within the first ten minutes

Write introductions that state a clear analytical through-line rather than summarising the text

Mark your own responses against the four Paper 1 criteria and log recurring weaknesses

Write one full timed Paper 2 comparative essay on a past-style prompt in 90 minutes

Select two oral extracts of roughly 40 lines each that support a single global issue and annotate them for extract-specific evidence

Draft a 10-minute oral structure: global issue framing, extract analysis, and work-level widening

Rehearse the oral aloud twice and time each run

Consolidate by rewriting your weakest Paper 1 and Paper 2 paragraphs from weeks 6 and 7

Refine the oral's global issue statement so it is genuinely global, not text-specific

Build a one-page revision sheet of formal features, contextual anchors, and intertextual links across all studied texts

Run a final timed Paper 1 to confirm timing and stamina