Transcript Part 2 Detailed Study IOC and Questions

Individual Oral Commentary
Part 2: Detailed Study
Goal, Process, Assessment
 Goal: To analyse a short extract from a studied work
and to evaluate the effectiveness of the literary
technique in that extract.
 Process: Students are required to deliver a
structured, focused commentary in a formal spoken
register.
 Assessment: the IOC is internally assessed and
externally moderated by the IB. Recordings are
required for moderation. Assessed according to
different sets of criteria at SL and HL. A combined
mark out of 30, based on four criteria.
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SL and HL
 The length of the commentary will depend on its
complexity, but should be 20-30 lines. In the case of
poetry, teachers may use a single complete poem, or
a significant extract from a longer poem. Shorter
poems may be suitable for commentary if there is
sufficient material for comment. So a sonnet would
fulfil the requirement?
 Students must be given a clean copy of the extract
without page numbers, headings, annotations or
notes.
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SL and HL
 Until the start of the preparation period, students must
not know the selection or the Part 2 work from which
the extract is taken.
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Standard Level
 Students are assessed on their detailed knowledge of
an extract taken from one of the works studied.
 20 minutes preparation time
 10 minutes delivery time
• 8 minutes: presentation
• 2 minutes: subsequent questions from teacher
 The teacher provides two guiding questions for each
extract.
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SL cont’d
 Sample guiding questions:
• Drama
• What is revealed about the characters through the diction
employed?
• What role do music / sound / lighting effects have to play in this
extract?
• Poetry
• What is the relationship between the title and the poem itself?
• How does the stanza structure reflect the development of the
poem’s subject?
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Higher Level
 HL students are assessed on their detailed knowledge
of a poetry extract or a complete poem
 20 minutes preparation time
 20 minutes delivery time
• 10 minutes of oral commentary
• 8 minutes of presentation
• 2 minutes of subsequent questions from teacher
• 10 minutes of discussion with teacher
 The poem must be accompanied by one or two
guiding questions set by the teacher
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Higher Level
 Discussion
• Conducted by the teacher and follows immediately after the
individual oral commentary without stopping the recording
• The work on which the discussion questions are based must
be one of the Part 2 works that was not used for the
commentary
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HL Oral commentary and discussion
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Oral commentary should take 8 minutes
Extracts between 20 - 30 lines
Subsequent questions 2 minutes
No pause between the end of the oral commentary
and the discussion
 The discussion (on another genre) should take 10
minutes
 Total timing 20 minutes
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HL Discussion Questions
 See p 130-132 in workbook (shared area)
 How has the teacher provided a transition from
the student’s IOC to the 10-minute discussion on
another Part 2 text?
 Task: write one or two questions that guide the
student smoothly into the “discussion” part of the IOC.
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“Standing Female Nude” – HL IOC
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Listen to the sample IOC (see p 108 of workbook)
Read along if you wish (p 115-121)
Assess the IOC, using the criteria for HL
Compare your marks to the examiner’s marks
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