cake Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 How did everyone find paper 1? Did anyone find especially hard to analyze text 1? 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Villarreal Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 I analyzed text C and D, I actually think these 2 texts were quite related in terms of the lack of privacy and lack of freedom. 3 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolthan Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 Ah damn.I chose texts A and B because I was unfamiliar with the analysis requirements of a piece of song lyrics.. I would imagine that it should be studied as a poem but I'm not good with those eitherThis year's text choices felt harder than last year's may 2014 exams. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ale1amigo Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 I chose to do texts C and D. I honestly did not know what higher level thinking the first two texts were leaning towards lol. I wrote my paper around the philosophy of privacy and debating whether to sacrifice or protect it it to fit societal norms and exceptions. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomIBStudent Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 I chose to do texts C and D. I honestly did not know what higher level thinking the first two texts were leaning towards lol. I wrote my paper around the philosophy of privacy and debating whether to sacrifice or protect it it to fit societal norms and exceptions. I believe the texts A and B were something about size / microscopic vs macroscopic / seeing the world in detail or as a bigger picture. But I chose Texts C and D... I kindof messed up for context though :/ Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xim3r Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 I chose texts A and B. Focused on perspective. I hope i did well but with P1 i never know... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kat Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 Chose C and D as well even though I generally don't go for the poems/songs in P1. But no regrets at all. I couldn't really see the relation between text A and B and didn't want to risk being completely off. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrio98 Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 Did anyone do SL? I found the paper sublime Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
watermelonprincess Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 Is anyone in English A: Language & Literature SL? I found it extremely hard to analyze text 1 due to the language (the British slang).. if anyone is in SL please reply back so I don't freak out even more!Did anyone do SL? I found the paper sublime HEY! WHICH TEXT DID YOU DO?! TEXT 1 OR 2?! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrio98 Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 Is anyone in English A: Language & Literature SL? I found it extremely hard to analyze text 1 due to the language (the British slang).. if anyone is in SL please reply back so I don't freak out even more!Did anyone do SL? I found the paper sublime HEY! WHICH TEXT DID YOU DO?! TEXT 1 OR 2?! HEY! I'm sorry to hear that! I also did text 1 and I found it great! Found so many stylistic devices, and could say so much the topic. But this was quite possibly because I wrote about this in my EE as well. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
watermelonprincess Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 Is anyone in English A: Language & Literature SL? I found it extremely hard to analyze text 1 due to the language (the British slang).. if anyone is in SL please reply back so I don't freak out even more!Did anyone do SL? I found the paper sublime HEY! WHICH TEXT DID YOU DO?! TEXT 1 OR 2?! HEY! I'm sorry to hear that! I also did text 1 and I found it great! Found so many stylistic devices, and could say so much the topic. But this was quite possibly because I wrote about this in my EE as well. That's so good! I'm happy for you! I found it really hard, I had to read the text multiple times to understand what he was saying - but I did mention some personification and symbolism (from the image - Britain's the left fishbowl and the other countries were the right). But aah.. I did the Big 5 though so hopefully it'll be fine Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrio98 Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 Is anyone in English A: Language & Literature SL? I found it extremely hard to analyze text 1 due to the language (the British slang).. if anyone is in SL please reply back so I don't freak out even more!Did anyone do SL? I found the paper sublime HEY! WHICH TEXT DID YOU DO?! TEXT 1 OR 2?! HEY! I'm sorry to hear that! I also did text 1 and I found it great! Found so many stylistic devices, and could say so much the topic. But this was quite possibly because I wrote about this in my EE as well. That's so good! I'm happy for you! I found it really hard, I had to read the text multiple times to understand what he was saying - but I did mention some personification and symbolism (from the image - Britain's the left fishbowl and the other countries were the right). But aah.. I did the Big 5 though so hopefully it'll be fine Thank you I'm sure it wasn't too bad! The image was quite good to talk about. You'll be fine, what other subjects do you have? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
watermelonprincess Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 Is anyone in English A: Language & Literature SL? I found it extremely hard to analyze text 1 due to the language (the British slang).. if anyone is in SL please reply back so I don't freak out even more!Did anyone do SL? I found the paper sublime HEY! WHICH TEXT DID YOU DO?! TEXT 1 OR 2?! HEY! I'm sorry to hear that! I also did text 1 and I found it great! Found so many stylistic devices, and could say so much the topic. But this was quite possibly because I wrote about this in my EE as well. That's so good! I'm happy for you! I found it really hard, I had to read the text multiple times to understand what he was saying - but I did mention some personification and symbolism (from the image - Britain's the left fishbowl and the other countries were the right). But aah.. I did the Big 5 though so hopefully it'll be fine Thank you I'm sure it wasn't too bad! The image was quite good to talk about. You'll be fine, what other subjects do you have? I have Maths, Design Technology, French B and Geography left. What about you? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
watermelonprincess Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 Is anyone in English A: Language & Literature SL? I found it extremely hard to analyze text 1 due to the language (the British slang).. if anyone is in SL please reply back so I don't freak out even more!Did anyone do SL? I found the paper sublime HEY! WHICH TEXT DID YOU DO?! TEXT 1 OR 2?! HEY! I'm sorry to hear that! I also did text 1 and I found it great! Found so many stylistic devices, and could say so much the topic. But this was quite possibly because I wrote about this in my EE as well. That's so good! I'm happy for you! I found it really hard, I had to read the text multiple times to understand what he was saying - but I did mention some personification and symbolism (from the image - Britain's the left fishbowl and the other countries were the right). But aah.. I did the Big 5 though so hopefully it'll be fine Thank you I'm sure it wasn't too bad! The image was quite good to talk about. You'll be fine, what other subjects do you have? I have Maths, Design Technology, French B and Geography left. What about you? Fun! I have Physics, Spanish A, Maths and German B left. Done with English and Eco woooo I wish you the best of luck! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrio98 Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 Is anyone in English A: Language & Literature SL? I found it extremely hard to analyze text 1 due to the language (the British slang).. if anyone is in SL please reply back so I don't freak out even more!Did anyone do SL? I found the paper sublime HEY! WHICH TEXT DID YOU DO?! TEXT 1 OR 2?! HEY! I'm sorry to hear that! I also did text 1 and I found it great! Found so many stylistic devices, and could say so much the topic. But this was quite possibly because I wrote about this in my EE as well. That's so good! I'm happy for you! I found it really hard, I had to read the text multiple times to understand what he was saying - but I did mention some personification and symbolism (from the image - Britain's the left fishbowl and the other countries were the right). But aah.. I did the Big 5 though so hopefully it'll be fine Thank you I'm sure it wasn't too bad! The image was quite good to talk about. You'll be fine, what other subjects do you have? I have Maths, Design Technology, French B and Geography left. What about you? Fun! I have Physics, Spanish A, Maths and German B left. Done with English and Eco woooo I wish you the best of luck! Thanks, same to you Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karan Jain Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 Is anyone in English A: Language & Literature SL? I found it extremely hard to analyze text 1 due to the language (the British slang).. if anyone is in SL please reply back so I don't freak out even more!Did anyone do SL? I found the paper sublime HEY! WHICH TEXT DID YOU DO?! TEXT 1 OR 2?! Yes..I did my paper 1 on text 1 about the myth of supremacy of english in the world..to be true..it was a doable task Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunaMoon24 Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) Hi people!I also did C and D. Found it pretty interesting btw lolI'm just worried about my content though cause I thought the author of the lyrics was a guy...yeah I know, it's a women. arghh do you think my mark for criterion a would go down? thanks oh lang and lit hl btw Edited May 6, 2015 by RunaMoon24 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossih Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) HI guys! I am SL, I chose text 2. I found it super interesting, and when I finished my analysis, I found that it answered the guiding questions perfectly so I was quite happy But I think text 2 had a lot of nuances that you had to catch. I didn't choose Text 1 because I was afraid that I would end up summarizing the arguments rather than analyzing them. Text 2 was great though Edited May 6, 2015 by Ossih Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eid Jazairi Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 I did text 1 as well, it was a breeze. Lots of things to analyse. Stylistic devices, theme, audience... Had a lot to write about the structure and how it transitioned from being a satirical introduction to a factual study. I studied Candide so I had a lot of practice with wit and satire. Hope you guys did well too! Good luck on the rest of your exams Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megamind Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) Hi everyone, I did the first text on Britain too. Like Eid said, plenty of stuff to analyze and talk about, especially how the author goes from a individual to a national to an international scale with every 2-3 paragraphs. I might have misanalyzed the picture a bit though because I felt the fish was in a sort of solitary confinement, all alone by itself in that fish bowl, merely looking at the world of possibilities beyond (as being looked down on by the other fish). I hope they don't cut too many points there :/ . Otherwise, Paper 1 was good!! Also, is it mandatory to answer according to the guiding questions? Edited May 6, 2015 by Megamind Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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