laurriepie Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 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? That's what i wrote for the picture analysis as well! Is it wrong? I did say the left fishbowl represented Britain and the right one, the rest of the world too though. Tbh, I'm not very good at the analysis. It was doable and i could identify changes in tone and few literary devices here and there. Fingers crossed I get a 5 :') 3 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamalS Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 I did SL, and I chose text 1 as I felt that text 2 would require more time for me, and it also took longer in the initial reading time to notice all the stylistic features and devices used. Regarding the cartoon in the article, I commented that it seemed to suggest Britain was isolated from other nations (the fishbowl furthest right), and that there was a greater amount and diversity of flora in the second bowl, suggesting that multiple languages can enrich our experience of language. There was also a small ruin in the first fishbowl, and I thought this might represent Britain is in a sort of linguistic 'dark age' based on Hoffman's article. I felt I adequately analysed every aspect of the text, but in the last 5 minutes I noticed there were arguably some contradictions in the paragraph underneath the cartoon and the one proceeding it which I didn't have time to address. My only fear is the examiner may disagree with a few of the points I make about the text, but I believe I have justified them well using evidence from the text, and I should still be able to score a level 7. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 I'm also in SL and chose text 1. I loved it, tons of things to talk about, but not as much stylistic devices. I also talked about the fishbowl but more in my conclusion Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry Villarreal Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) I chose texts A and B. Focused on perspective. I hope i did well but with P1 i never know... Hi man, I'm from Colombia, we both speak Spanish, we are brother countries lel hahaha. I actually think text A was extremely weird, I didn't know the incidence of the chicken or the chapel. I honestly decided to choose text C and text D even if D was a song. They were really similar in the topics of Privacy and most of the people who used these two texts agree that their main theme was privacy. Hope you did well with text A btw. Edited May 6, 2015 by Henry Villarreal Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
watermelonprincess Posted May 6, 2015 Report Share Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) I did SL, and I chose text 1 as I felt that text 2 would require more time for me, and it also took longer in the initial reading time to notice all the stylistic features and devices used. Regarding the cartoon in the article, I commented that it seemed to suggest Britain was isolated from other nations (the fishbowl furthest right), and that there was a greater amount and diversity of flora in the second bowl, suggesting that multiple languages can enrich our experience of language. There was also a small ruin in the first fishbowl, and I thought this might represent Britain is in a sort of linguistic 'dark age' based on Hoffman's article. I felt I adequately analysed every aspect of the text, but in the last 5 minutes I noticed there were arguably some contradictions in the paragraph underneath the cartoon and the one proceeding it which I didn't have time to address. My only fear is the examiner may disagree with a few of the points I make about the text, but I believe I have justified them well using evidence from the text, and I should still be able to score a level 7. I said the exactly same thing as you (Britain being isolated). I also added the theme of 'isolation'. Edited May 6, 2015 by watermelonprincess 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ana21cg Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 TZ0 here. I chose section 1, texts A and B about perspectives (big vs small), and so on. I found it easier to analyze a movie poster than a song (section 2) because if I had chosen section 2, I'd probably have had to refer to poetry, metric, and lyric stylistic devices in text D; those to which I am not so familiarized, or at least I find them harder to analyze. Instead, I LOVE to analyze cartoons, or posters, or some kind of visual text. So without doubt, I chose section 1. In regards to text A about the Buttercup field, I felt there where a lot of stylistic devices like metaphors, parallels, allusions, personifications, etc. Did someone else find it this way? I actually enjoyed doing this particular comparative essay. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomIBStudent Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 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 Oh damn I though it was a guy too... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunaMoon24 Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 Well...I just hope it's not a big problem then.I think I got the theme right (by looking at ppl's discussion here)and I did say "privacy" so I hope I'll just get awarded points for that!haha, good luck with your other exams! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kattvante Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 I did Text C and D for HL, and I focused more on stylistic features than content. How many pages did people write? I'm worried as I only wrote 4... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nishadigaitonde Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 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?! yeah for me it was hard as well but i did text 1 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Pan Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 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 Hey, I also chose Text 2. At first I thought there was not much to write about. However after the time was up, I figured I wrote around five pages. I talked about how the details contribute to our understanding of the mood, atmosphere, character's personality, the situation and blah blah blah. Had an extra five minutes to check! How did you do? Any negative thoughts? (: Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
justatalker Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 Hi guys! Lang lit HL here! I did texts A and B because I didn't really know what to do with the song lol. It was quite confusing at first, but I ended up explaining how perspective matters and in the grand scheme of things, nature overpowers man (whether in a good or bad way). Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shosho12 Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 TZ0 here. I chose section 1, texts A and B about perspectives (big vs small), and so on. I found it easier to analyze a movie poster than a song (section 2) because if I had chosen section 2, I'd probably have had to refer to poetry, metric, and lyric stylistic devices in text D; those to which I am not so familiarized, or at least I find them harder to analyze. Instead, I LOVE to analyze cartoons, or posters, or some kind of visual text. So without doubt, I chose section 1. In regards to text A about the Buttercup field, I felt there where a lot of stylistic devices like metaphors, parallels, allusions, personifications, etc. Did someone else find it this way? I actually enjoyed doing this particular comparative essay.I completely agree, I did section 1 as well and I mentioned the exact same literary devices. I just wished I had more time because I could've written much more, but I analyzed text 2 with a feminist criticism as in how the mens' stereotypical role in society is being trivialized as women are empowering especially after the world wars and the feminist movement in the US.Also, did anyone else find it ironic how Text A's title suited text B more and vice versa? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossih Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 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 Hey, I also chose Text 2. At first I thought there was not much to write about. However after the time was up, I figured I wrote around five pages. I talked about how the details contribute to our understanding of the mood, atmosphere, character's personality, the situation and blah blah blah. Had an extra five minutes to check! How did you do? Any negative thoughts? (: I think it went pretty well! I talked about detail yeah, but I also talked about the tone and how it doesn't match how someone in a war would normally act. He's not scared but rather thrilled, and to an extent, quite humorous as well. He talks about the grenade incident, and he is enthralled by the all the activity in the march up. And he presents 5 possibilities to his wife, the last one of which was quite funny (digging in Rouen). I said that this was because he wanted to reassure his wife that he was okay, and that there wasn't anything else to worry about. For detail, I talked about the motif of being tired but also references to Highland Laddie and them singing show us their pride. Last, I talked about small things like the fact that his letter was written from Hell's Corner haha. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ana21cg Posted May 7, 2015 Report Share Posted May 7, 2015 TZ0 here. I chose section 1, texts A and B about perspectives (big vs small), and so on. I found it easier to analyze a movie poster than a song (section 2) because if I had chosen section 2, I'd probably have had to refer to poetry, metric, and lyric stylistic devices in text D; those to which I am not so familiarized, or at least I find them harder to analyze. Instead, I LOVE to analyze cartoons, or posters, or some kind of visual text. So without doubt, I chose section 1. In regards to text A about the Buttercup field, I felt there where a lot of stylistic devices like metaphors, parallels, allusions, personifications, etc. Did someone else find it this way? I actually enjoyed doing this particular comparative essay.I completely agree, I did section 1 as well and I mentioned the exact same literary devices. I just wished I had more time because I could've written much more, but I analyzed text 2 with a feminist criticism as in how the mens' stereotypical role in society is being trivialized as women are empowering especially after the world wars and the feminist movement in the US.Also, did anyone else find it ironic how Text A's title suited text B more and vice versa? Yes!!! Me too! I wished I had a little more time to analyze some more elements. I actually lost time analyzing text A stylistic devices (as they were a lot!). I didn't do the feminist criticism (I didn't think of that) but what I did was that I mentioned those contexts. I did make a reference to both World Wars (Text A before WWI and yet B after WW2. Yet I can't remember if I talked about the influence of the context within the test. I probably did but somehow limited, I guess. I like that feminist criticism you used because these two texts had several points to which you could refer and make some important insights. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erika Posted May 8, 2015 Report Share Posted May 8, 2015 Lang/Lit HL. I did texts A and B, although most of my classmates did texts C and D. I found the song too intimidating and I'm better at analyzing posters than songs/poems. I actually really enjoyed texts A and B so I had a lot to talk about, although I focused more on stylistic devices than content, but I think that should be okay. A lot of the past responses to paper 1 that my teacher had showed us (he's Chief Examiner of the English A courses for the IB) focussed on devices and got 7s. So fingers crossed that I can at least get a 6! As for the paper 2, I did the question on techniques to evoke emotional responses. My books were The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Burmese Days by George Orwell. Think I did well there too. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ameera_khan Posted May 13, 2015 Report Share Posted May 13, 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? hey why do you think that's a wrong interpretation of the picture? :$ they can't cut marks unless you've simply put statements out there without explaining. Nope not mandatory to answer the guiding questions, but it's wise to talk about that stuff Edited May 13, 2015 by ameera_khan Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
msxo Posted May 14, 2015 Report Share Posted May 14, 2015 I chose text C and D. I found both pairs of text hard to analyse, but i think i understood the weblog, and the song lyric more. I talked about how they're presenting a similiar content in different ways using different stylistic techniques. But whats worrying me is that I kept referring to the writer of the song as a "he" and it turned out to be a she! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ketone Posted May 17, 2015 Report Share Posted May 17, 2015 Do anyone know why they only make one timezone - TZ0 this time? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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