This section will help you design a class your students will love. The first section, reading, critical thinking, and writing, focuses on three essential areas of student growth. Course concepts & principles looks at the terminology that is unique to the course: Areas of Exploration, the Seven Concepts, Global Issues, and so on. Three approaches to course design offers some perspective on selecting texts and building a syllabus. Finally, bodies of work considers what constitutes a non-literary body of work for the purposes of the individual oral.
In language and literature, there are three areas of exploration: Readers, writers, texts | Time and space | Intertextuality.
While executing the course, a balance is recommended between the three areas. Below you will find the IB recommended number of hours teachers spend focused on each of the areas of exploration. These hours for each area are neither prescriptive nor restrictive.
The course is structured around literary works and non-literary bodies of work. In the table below, you will find specific IB requirements for both. Most of these apply only to literary works, except for the last one.
