Literature

A Paper 2 english literature essay on a past drama topic about stories and their effect in plays.
The texts used were A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman and very briefly Waiting for Godot.
This was marked by an IB examiner and received a 7 (23/25).

English A: Literature Written Assignment on the work Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca.

Paper 1 practise

Paper 1 Practice

Important pointers to keep note of when writing your commentary.

Here are some helpful phrases and tips for writing your IB literature Reflective statement which is worth and overall of about 3% of your IB grade. I am a level 7 IB literature student.

Prompt: "Visual Action can be as important as speech on stage". Discuss with referencing at least two works that you have studied.
I chose to write my essay on Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Miller's Death of a Salesman, and Shakespeare's Hamlet. We only got 90 minutes to do this essay, so it's a bit unfinished near the last point/conclusion.
Received a 6.

This essay was an analysis of Clarice Lispector's use of narrow settings in her work, "Family Ties". "Family Ties" is the title of the collection of short stories we covered in class. In this essay, I attempt to analyse four stories.
Although I think I offer some acute observations, some ideas are left undeveloped (granted, 1500 words isn't enough to say something significant) and some ideas do not mesh together with the essay prompt very well. The essay also sounds a bit verbose, and I think I used too many big words or used inappropriate words because it is quite hard to understand at times.
I didn't get the mark breakdown, but based on my final mark, I would guesstimate that this essay received a mid 6 ~ low 7.

This is my essay which I used for my IOP in 2014. It is titled " How are the themes in Wharton's Ethan Frome constructed through her use of imagery?"
When I started IB, I found English Literature to be very difficult (and I still do) so I thought I would share this essay with whoever is struggling to analyze Ethan Frome or thinking of doing IB.
I do not know the grade of my IOP, but my teacher told me I did a good job and my peers told me it was insightful as well.
Enjoy!

Some notes on the theme of the gods in Antigone

This is a paper 1 unseen commentary on the past paper prose fiction 'Driving Over Lemons'. Enjoy!

Contains terminology, structuring essay, sample paper...

An "open topic" paper on Emma by Jane Austen, in which I wrote about the character of Mr. Woodhouse and his absurdities.

Hi all, I just wanted to share my response to an extract of the novel Lord of the Flies as a practice for IB English A Lit paper 1. 

This file gives you the notes for the in-depth analysis of Poetry.
(Chapter 1) - It talks about different poetry types and what is poetry.
(Chapter 2) - How to read and annotate poems?
(Chapter 3) - How to analyse poems?
(Chapter 4) - Sample Essays.

This is a practice commentary I wrote for an in-class evaluation (internally assessed) on the book The Picture of Dorian Gray. 

An Example IOC on the poem Mrs Aesop by Carol Ann Duffy in her collection of poems "The World's Wife"

This is an example of a well structred essay that recieved a 5 grade for ENGLISH lit HL this is a commentary

These are some practice IAs from Chemistry and English. This Wit essay is a 1000 word essay about Chronicle of a Death Foretold because we're not into our final stages of the final draft yet. Same goes for Chemistry and is a practice IA

This is a PDF version of my Paper 1, written during the "Mocks" in Luxembourg (2020).

It's a sample commentary

A LONG list of significant quotes and passages from Old Man Goriot, arranged in categories.

This is an internally assessed essay I wrote on nature imagery in Macbeth in 2018 during my Year 1 English Lit course. 

A LONG list of quotes and significant passages about the three main characters in Old Man Goriot: Goriot, Eugene and Vautrin.

literary analysis of poem