Looking at any text from different perspectives

Any text can be looked at from different perspectives, and analysed as is suitable towards different IB aims.

Paper 1: 

Take a careful look at assessment criteria A and B, and consider how you would approach this particular text in light of the requirements of these criteria. Identify the text type and its characteristics. (See the characteristics of the text as listed in the subject guide.) You also need to be able to analyze a text to see the extent to which it follows the characteristics of the text type, or subverts them. If an advertisement, for example, does not clearly identify the product, consider the reasons why that choice was made and think about the intended effect on the audience. 

Individual oral: 

Look at criteria A and B for the IO. There are some similarities between the criteria in the IO and those in Paper 1 but the IO also requires students to make connections between extracts from a literary work and non-literary body of work (BOW). The IO must make connections with the global issue (=GI) that the student has chosen, so it is advisable to consider how a text is linked to different global issues.

HL essay:

This is an in-depth analysis of a non-literary BOW or a literary work the student has studied in class. Imagine this text is from a non-literary body of work and consider possible approaches you could take with the 1200-1500 word HL essay. This could include evaluating connections between this text and the seven central concepts in DP Language A Language and Literature.

Newspapers and news articles

Philpot U3.1 Journalism (pp 69-77, 134)

Good news: https://www.boredpanda.com/positive-news-2019-illustrations-mauro-gatti/

To complement old CC pp 175-184 (Mass communication) and PhilpotNew U1.8 News articles:

Task: When you have done p 179 in the Mass communication document (old CC) and the front page news activity there, look at the following on front pages and analysis of such, pick one front page and write an analysis of it as if it were Paper 1 (analysis of a previously unseen text). Include a copy of the front cover in your document, and put it in your portfolio. Be ready to share, discuss and comment.

Possible guiding question: In what ways does the page capture the reader's imagination?

Front pages of British newspapers. https://www.thepaperboy.com/uk/front-pages.cfm

US front pages: https://www.thepaperboy.com/usa/front-pages.cfm

Tomorrow's papers front pages (British): https://www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/

How to analyse a newspaper front page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w60DWBNRLsc

Mediaknowall: http://www.mediaknowall.com/gcse/news/news.php

Who works in a TV newsroom: https://www.thebalancecareers.com/tv-news-careers-525690

Ambiguous NP headlines (discuss what they might mean):

http://www.fun-with-words.com/ambiguous_headlines.html

Some headline fun:

https://bestlifeonline.com/funniest-newspaper-headlines-of-all-time/?nab=1

NB! If a guiding question is missing from a text that could potentially function as a Paper 1 text, use this:

Analyse the text, commenting on the significance of the context, audience, purpose, and formal and stylistic features.

Task: 2 NP articles on the same topic, different perspectives:

Introduce the texts - topics and sources.

Discuss differences in language, tone, facts, comments, pictures, etc.

Broadsheets vs tabloids: Tabloids vs broadsheets doc on Tera

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zps4qty/revision/1

Bias: https://libguides.pvcc.edu/evaluatinganewsstory/bias

(If it ever happens that the above does not work any more, hopefully the following links originally included in it still work:

Identifying Biased News Reporting

• Fake News Is Not the Only Problem

  By Gilad Lotan, from Points
• How Do You Tell When the News Is Biased? It Depends on How You See Yourself

  By Jonathan Stray, from NeimanLab
• How the Web Distorts Reality and Impairs Our Judgement Skills

  by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, from the Guardian
• How to Detect Bias in News Media

  By FAIR, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
• Media Bias

  From Student News Daily. Provides definitions for the types of media bias.
• Media Bias: Is Slanted Reporting Replacing Objectivity?

  By Robert Kiener, from CQ Researcher

See this on Tera: Recognizing Online Propaganda, Bias, and Advertising - Transcript

Types of bias: https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/types-of-media-bias/

Media bias chart: https://www.adfontesmedia.com/intro-to-the-media-bias-chart/

Media bias archive: https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/archive/example-of-media-bias/ )

Images and magazine covers

To complement PhilpotNew Unit 1.1:

* several documents on Tera (two will be handed out in class)

* how to analyse art: https://nladesignvisual.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/how-to-analyse-paintings/

https://www.studentartguide.com/articles/how-to-analyze-an-artwork --> 

Task: condense this into a short guide for analysing art in the context of LangLit. (Write it, preferably collaboratively.)

* logo: https://99designs.com/blog/tips/types-of-logos/

* icon or symbol: https://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-icon-and-vs-symbol/

* perspective: https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/perspective-in-paintings-2578098

* allusion = an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference (How do you solve a problem called ...?)

* body language and facial expressions:

https://www.verywellmind.com/understand-body-language-and-facial-expressions-4147228

*emojis: https://staysafeonline.org/blog/secret-language-emoji/

https://emojipedia.org/

* the symbolism of colours: https://www.incredibleart.org/lessons/middle/color2.htm

https://www.color-meanings.com/

http://www.artyfactory.com/color_theory/color_theory_2.htm

https://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com/meaning-of-colors.html

Use Analyzing a Photograph: A How-To Guide (HO + available on Tera) to analyse this image from the previous LangLit Course Companion first as a photograph, and later as an advert: 

For magazine covers, consult "Magazine cover" in Tera.

If you at any point believe that you have exhausted the possibilities of this part of the book and any extra materials, move on to U1.2 Advertisements.