IB ENGLISH
LITERATURE SL
2017-2018
Paper 1: Literary Commentary
Paper 1 contains two previously unseen passages and students are instructed to write a literary commentary on one of the passages.
One will be poetry, the other will be taken from works such as:
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a novel or short story
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an essay
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a biography
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a journalistic piece of literary merit
IB Paper 1 past papers and responses
Paper 1: your prose/poem analysis
2006 - Prisoner's Dilemma - Mr Walker's annotations
May 2014 - HL Paper 1
May 2014 - Poetry level 4 example
May 2014 - Prose level 6 example
May 2014 - Prose level 7 example
May 2014 - Poetry level 7 example
May 2015 Paper 1
Nov 2012 SL Paper 1
May 2013 SL Paper 1
May 2012 SL Paper 1
Nov 2013 SL Paper 1
Analysing Unseen Prose
Writing analytically
Eileen extract - Stephanie
Balzac extract - Megha
Prose analysis task
Midnight's Children - Will
The Reality Boy extract - Harune
The Sellout extract - Zoe
Life of Pi extract - Jatin
Desert extract - Katrina
Long Day's Journey extract - Jeff
Lies we tell ourselves -
Denise
Streetcar Named Desire -
Nitish
Life of Pi extract - Derrick
I am Cat extract - Felix
The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Rian
Bringing up the Bodies - Serene
May 2015 Marking comments
May 2015 poetry response
Paper 1 SL Mock exam 2018 - marking notes