About this EE idea?

[Pwhdavey]

I was thinking of doing my EE in either History or English A1. I was also interested in Politics or Film but I have studied neither of these subjects and this would be a detriment. So it seems to be down to just History or Language A1 and I have to know my topic by next Friday because apparently we're spending the whole day researching and planning the essay: 1/5 of our total time allowed on the EE...

So for A1 I was thinking of a novel comparison, having studied [i]Nineteen Eighty-four [/i](and in depth by myself in the oral presentation) and I thought of choosing [i]We[/i] by Yevgeny Zamtayin. But I just realised an essay in A1 must feature literature originally written in the A1 language. To add to this, I haven't even read [i]We[/i] yet, but am very keen to and compare it with 1984. Am I to move on?

[Felhound]

Perhaps do some research on the books, and if it suits the criteria, go ahead. It shouldn't take much time going onto google. [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Zamyatin"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Zamyatin[/url] has a nice article linking both books, try to read it before deciding.

[IBStuck]

for an EE in Language A1, if you are doing a comaprison of two novels, one of them must be written in your native lanuage (so for you one of those two novel must have been written in english first.) so i am pretty sure yoou are good with your two books.

[Bee =3]

but what would you call native language?
cos, in my case, my nationality's korean, i've lived most of my life in argentina...
but my easiest language is english cos i've also lived in australia.. haha
so what would IB consider my 'first' language?
ta, B