# IB DP English A: Language and Literature Course Overview

## Course Aims
- Engage with texts from different periods, styles, and cultures
- Develop skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing, presenting
- Develop critical thinking and analysis skills
- Develop sensitivity to language, structure, and meaning
- Develop understanding of how language, culture, and context determine text construction
- Develop appreciation of formal, stylistic, and aesthetic qualities of texts
- Develop powers of expression for various purposes and audiences

## Assessment Objectives
1. Know, understand and interpret texts
2. Analyze and evaluate how textual features and/or authorial choices shape meaning
3. Organize, develop and express ideas effectively

## Areas of Exploration
1. **Readers, writers and texts** - Nature of texts, reader response, authorial choices
2. **Time and space** - Cultural, historical, and social contexts
3. **Intertextuality** - Connections between texts

## Course Structure
- **Literary works**: 4 works (SL), 6 works (HL)
- **Non-literary texts**: Wide variety across all areas
- **Recommended hours**: 150 (SL), 240 (HL)

## Text Types (Non-literary)
- Advertisements, articles, blogs, cartoons, diaries, editorials, essays, interviews, letters, news reports, opinion columns, reviews, speeches, travel writing, etc.