Individual Oral (IO)

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"Examine the ways in which the global issue of your choice is presented through the content and form of one of the [literary] works and one of the [non-literary] bodies of work that you have studied."

15-minute oral exam focused on a Global Issue (GI)

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10-minute presentation

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5-minute Q&A session

3.1 What is IO?

Same grading criteria for SL and HL (HL is not graded any harshly than SL)

3.2 Assessment Criteria

A strong GI (Global Issue) must contain the following attributes:

Significant impact on a wide/large scale

Transnational application

Impactful in everyday local contexts

“Everyday local contexts” implies timelessness, meaning that the issue demonstrates relevance in the past and present.

3.3 How do I phrase my Global Issue?

Follow these steps to choose your extracts:

Read both texts and find a common global issue.

Narrow down to 2-3 different extracts within your texts that relate to the global issue.

Choose the extract that offers the richest literary and structural techniques, enhancing your analysis and providing deeper insights into the global issue.

Tip: Select the extract that has an important significance to your GI (not just a connection). For instance, choose a scene that demonstrates how the GI is manifested in society or a scene that suggests a solution to the GI.

For literary text extracts:

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Novels/poems/plays: Choose up to 40 consecutive lines, but aim to cover your extract in 2 minutes. Often, selecting 25-30 lines works best.

3.4 How do I pick the extract?

General overview:

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You select “body of work” to explain the relevance of the GI in specific moments from other points in the work you have chosen.

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You must consider “how is the GI relevant to the work as a whole” and “what are some characteristics that the author uses (repetition, symbolism, theme) to demonstrate the relevance of your GI throughout the work.”

Steps for selecting wider work:

Re-read your chosen extracts for the two works.

Consider analyzing the title, different characters, motifs, moments that contrast with the extract in the body of work that relate to the global issue.

Choose for 3-4 different sections in the body of work that offers a deeper and/or another insight to the global issue.

3.5 How do I pick the Body of Work?

10 minute time allocation

Requirements

The structure (Criteria C) of your IO needs to fulfill two requirements:

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Organization and Focus

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Balance

3.6 How should I structure my IO?

General guidelines

Write within 300 words and maximum of 10 bullet points.

Do not use sub-bullet points.

You can bold, underline, italicize your texts or use abbreviations, notations, symbols, etc (your outline does not have to make sense to the examiner!).

Keep your outline balanced like your oral. Ideally, four bullet points should be dedicated for each text (2 for extract and 2 for body of work for each text).

Avoid writing full sentences as it would be a waste of word count.

Tip: Use outline as your backup though you are planning to memorize your script. Write points that you often forget or phrases to keep you on track!

3.7 How to Prepare the IO Outline

This section gives you an opportunity to bring up ideas you couldn’t cover within the 10-minute presentation, making it vital for earning any additional marks you may have missed. Questions aren’t predetermined, and the examiner has complete freedom over the types of questions they may ask.

Examples of commonly asked questions include:

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You said…How does this work reflect the writer’s message about the GI?

Tip: Do not repeat your answer word-by-word from the presentation for questions asking for clarification. Try to add more on the spot.

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You said… Where do you see evidence of that?

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You said…Why do you think the writer uses that technique to convey the GI?

Tip: Know the strength and the nature of a particular authorial choice to argue why that technique is the most appropriate choice in a certain context.

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You said… What kind of target audience did the writer have in mind?

3.8 How to prepare for the IO Questions

a. Exemplar 1

Literary Extract:

1 Helmer. Is it my little squirrel bustling about?

5 wipes her mouth.) Come in here, Torvald, and see what I have

10 Nora. Yes, but, Torvald, this year we really can let ourselves go a

15 mayn‘t we? Just a tiny wee bit! You are going to have a big salary

20 Helmer. Nora! (Goes up to her and takes her playfully by the ear.)

3.9 IO Exemplar