IB 2-Year Subject Plan

YEAR 1

YEAR 2

Month

Text + Focus

Month

Text + Focus

Sep-Oct

(1) Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing[Drama, 16-17, UK]

Intertextuality

Time and space

Sep-Nov

(7) Angeline Boulley, Firekeeper’s Daughter 

[Prose: Indigenous Fiction,  21, USA]

Reader, writer, and text

Time and space

Assessments:

• Practice Paper 1

Nov-Dec

(2) Mariano Azuela, The Underdogs

[Prose: historical fiction, 20, Mexico, Spanish]

Reader, writer, and text

Assessments:

Practice IO (2 mins)

HL Essay Draft 1 

Nov-Dec

(8) Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [Prose: science fiction, 20, USA]

Time and space

Intertextuality

IO Presentation

Jan-Mar

(3) Dante, Inferno[Poetry, 14, Italy, Italian]

(4) T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land[Poetry, 20, USA]

Intertextuality

Time and space

• Close reading skills

Assessments:

• Practice IO (5 mins)

• HL Essay Draft 2 

Jan-Feb

(9) James Baldwin, Go Tell It On The Mountain [Prose, 20, USA]*Reader, writer, and text*

Apr-May

(5) Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country[Prose: fiction, 20, Japan, Japanese]*Reader, writer, and text*

Feb-March

(April-ish?)

(10) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, [Prose: non-fiction, 20-21, USA]

Time and space

Intertextuality

April- Practice Papers 1 & 2

June

HL Essay Conference 

May

Exams