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English A Language and Literature Paper 2 HLSL Markscheme

This document provides marking notes for examiners evaluating English Language and Literature papers. It outlines what would constitute an adequate, good, or excellent response for 6 different prompts that could be used in the exam. For each prompt, it describes the key elements and level of analysis expected for a response to be considered adequate or good, and what additional sophistication is expected for a response to be considered excellent.

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English A Language and Literature Paper 2 HLSL Markscheme

This document provides marking notes for examiners evaluating English Language and Literature papers. It outlines what would constitute an adequate, good, or excellent response for 6 different prompts that could be used in the exam. For each prompt, it describes the key elements and level of analysis expected for a response to be considered adequate or good, and what additional sophistication is expected for a response to be considered excellent.

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N14/1/AYENG/BP2/ENG/TZ0/XX/M

MARKING NOTES
REMARQUES POUR LA NOTATION
NOTAS PARA LA CORRECCIÓN

November / novembre / noviembre 2014

ENGLISH / ANGLAIS / INGLÉS A:


LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE /
LANGUE ET LITTÉRATURE /
LENGUA Y LITERATURA

Higher Level and Standard Level


Niveau Supérieur et Niveau Moyen
Nivel Superior y Nivel Medio

Paper / Épreuve / Prueba 2

4 pages/páginas
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These marking notes are confidential and for the exclusive use of
examiners in this examination session.

They are the property of the International Baccalaureate and


must not be reproduced or distributed to any other person
without the authorization of the IB Assessment Centre.

Ces remarques pour la notation sont confidentielles. Leur usage


est réservé exclusivement aux examinateurs participant à cette
session.

Ces remarques sont la propriété de l’Organisation du


Baccalauréat International. Toute reproduction ou distribution
à de tierces personnes sans l’autorisation préalable du centre de
l’évaluation de l’IB est interdite.

Estas notas para la corrección son confidenciales y para el uso


exclusivo de los examinadores en esta convocatoria de
exámenes.

Son propiedad del Bachillerato Internacional y no se pueden


reproducir ni distribuir a ninguna otra persona sin la
autorización previa del centro de evaluación del IB.
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Context should be understood in the widest possible sense. It may include the social and/or
historical setting of the work or the context of its literary genre; it may include the context of a
situation within the work or contexts of production and reception of a work.

In addition to the notes below, responses should be structured with a logical sequence and
development. Clear, varied and accurate language should be used, as well as appropriate
register, style and terminology.

1. An adequate to good answer will single out examples from the works studied showing the
representation of women and discuss how such representations reflect the historical, social
and cultural contexts within the works.

A good to excellent answer may offer more detailed or more nuanced examples of the
representation of women and explore more fully the historical, social and cultural contexts of
to the works.

2. An adequate to good answer will offer some examples of violence in the works studied,
discuss how the violence is depicted and explore why this is significant to the work.

A good to excellent answer may offer a more detailed and complex understanding of violence
and its depiction, exploring more closely why violence with its many possible historical,
social and cultural contextual links is significant to the work.

3. An adequate to good answer will define and identify “brevity” and/or “change” as the
candidate perceives and discusses the significance of one or both of these notions in the works
chosen.

A good to excellent answer may look more closely at the prompt and consider “brevity”
and/or “change” with a greater degree of sophistication and may offer a more nuanced
discussion of, for example, the essence of brevity or the inevitability of things coming to an
end or changing, and show how such ideas are significant to and represented in the works.

4. An adequate to good answer will look at choices made by the writers regarding settings
(in terms of time and place) in the works and discuss how such choices give order to and
shape meaning within the works.

A good to excellent answer may offer a more cogent analysis of the writers’ choices about
time and place, discussing persuasively how such choices give a structure to the work and
help shape ideas.
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5. An adequate to good answer will define either directly or by inference what is meant by
“goodness” and/or “virtue” and identify and discuss examples from the works that support
whether or not such values are responsible for the work’s importance. Some awareness of the
role of the contexts of time and place may be shown.

A good to excellent answer may offer a more nuanced understanding of “goodness” and/or
“virtue”, developing a persuasive argument for whether or not the “showing the way to
goodness” is related to the work’s overall importance.

6. An adequate to good answer will offer examples of symbols in the works studied and discuss
to what effect those symbols were employed.

A good to excellent answer may offer a more nuanced discussion of the use of symbols in the
works, examining, perhaps, how the relationship between the concrete and the abstract was
shaped by the writer or, perhaps, by the contexts of time, place or genre.

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