Written Task 2: Critical Response 10% of final DP mark
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Aims of the critical response
Task 2 takes the form of a critical response and is a requirement of the HL course only. The aims of task 2 are:
Formal Requirements:
Task 2 is a critical response to one of these six questions. The prescribed questions are designed to be as open as possible and are intended to highlight broad areas within which students can explore and develop their responses to the texts. Where appropriate, task 2 must reference, in a bibliography, the relevant support documentation such as the newspaper article or magazine advertisement on which it is based. Where a complete shorter text is chosen (for example, a newspaper article or an advertisement from a magazine) students may refer to other texts to support their response. The critical response is in the style of a formal essay and must be clearly structured with an introduction, clearly developed ideas or arguments and a conclusion.
Task 2 takes the form of a critical response and is a requirement of the HL course only. The aims of task 2 are:
- to consider in greater detail the material studied in the four parts of the language A: language and literature course
- to reflect and question in greater depth the values, beliefs and attitudes that are implied in the texts studied
- to encourage students to view texts in a number of ways
- to enable students to give an individual response to the way in which texts can be understood in the light of the prescribed questions.
Formal Requirements:
Task 2 is a critical response to one of these six questions. The prescribed questions are designed to be as open as possible and are intended to highlight broad areas within which students can explore and develop their responses to the texts. Where appropriate, task 2 must reference, in a bibliography, the relevant support documentation such as the newspaper article or magazine advertisement on which it is based. Where a complete shorter text is chosen (for example, a newspaper article or an advertisement from a magazine) students may refer to other texts to support their response. The critical response is in the style of a formal essay and must be clearly structured with an introduction, clearly developed ideas or arguments and a conclusion.
Prescribed Questions:
Reader Culture and Text
- How could the text be read and interpreted differently by two different readers?
- If the text had been written in a different time or place or language or for a different audience, how and why might it differ?
Power and Privilege
- How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?
- Which social groups are marginalized, excluded or silenced within the text?
Text and Genre
- How does the text conform to, or deviate from, the conventions of a particular genre, and for what purpose?
- How has the text borrowed from other texts, and with what effects?
Outline
Instead of a rationale, students are expected to complete an outline on a designated form. For practice purposes, complete your outline on the form below.
Sample WT2 - A Streetcar Named Desire
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Rubric
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Your task:
Texts
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Due Dates:
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Steps for completing the WT2
- Choose a text.
- Play around with the essay questions and consider which aspect of the text you can analyze. I recommend choosing the question first. Don’t pick a section of the text or a character that you like and try to make an essay question fit; you run the risk of creating a weak connection.
- Decide how you will interpret the question. Which angle will you take?
- Write your thesis statement. Your essay must have a sustained argument.
- Write your proposal.
- Write your outline
- Write your first draft. Your essay must contain an introduction with a clear thesis statement, around four body paragraphs that build upon your main argument, and a concluding paragraph.
- Revise, Edit, Submit a final draft.
Formatting your final draft
Before you submit your final draft, ensure that it contains all of the necessary components. Follow the list below AND have a look at the sample WT2s to get a sense of what it should look like.
Format: Order your WT2 in the following way. Numbers 1-3 should all be on separate pages.
Others:
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Sample WT2s from other schools. There is no right or wrong way to format the cover page, but I recommend following the cover page on the first parody sample.
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