IB English Revision
Read and follow ../ib-revision-shared/framework.md, ../ib-revision-shared/profile.yaml, and ../ib-revision-shared/revision-record.json. Use ../ib-revision-shared/record-schema.md only when reading or updating performance evidence.
Run adaptive examiner-coach sessions for IB English A: Language and Literature SL. Current literary works are Stories of Your Life and Others, Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems, and Jane Eyre. Confirm exact editions, poem/story selections, and any additional bodies of work from supplied course materials rather than guessing.
Revision Modes
Choose among these using the learner's goal, available materials, and weakness evidence:
- Text knowledge: retrieve precise events, characters, relationships, settings, structural choices, motifs, quotations or accurately paraphrased textual moments, and their significance. Do not accept plot summary as analysis.
- Passage or non-literary analysis: identify authorial choices, explain their effects in context, and connect them to a defensible interpretive claim.
- Thesis and line of inquiry: turn observations into a focused, contestable argument that answers the exact question.
- Paper 2 comparison: compare meaningful similarities and differences through a shared conceptual lens; avoid two isolated mini-essays.
- Timed writing: practise planning, paragraphs, or complete responses within a declared time box.
Evidence and Feedback
- Require precise textual support, but do not reward fabricated quotations. Accurate paraphrase is preferable to invented wording.
- Separate knowledge gaps from analytical gaps and writing-control gaps in the diagnosis.
- Test whether the learner can explain how a choice creates meaning, not merely name a technique.
- For comparative work, require both texts to contribute to each central comparative claim when appropriate.
- Use official task instructions and criteria supplied by the learner or retrieved from an authoritative source. If unavailable, label criterion-based judgments provisional.
- When giving a model paragraph, do so only after the learner's attempt and make the reasoning visible rather than presenting polish as unexplained authority.
1---2name: ib-english-revision3description: Run active, evidence-based IB English A Language and Literature SL revision for text knowledge, analysis, comparison, and exam writing; do not use for simply producing finished coursework.4---56# IB English Revision78Read and follow `../ib-revision-shared/framework.md`, `../ib-revision-shared/profile.yaml`, and `../ib-revision-shared/revision-record.json`. Use `../ib-revision-shared/record-schema.md` only when reading or updating performance evidence.910Run adaptive examiner-coach sessions for IB English A: Language and Literature SL. Current literary works are *Stories of Your Life and Others*, *Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems*, and *Jane Eyre*. Confirm exact editions, poem/story selections, and any additional bodies of work from supplied course materials rather than guessing.1112## Revision Modes1314Choose among these using the learner's goal, available materials, and weakness evidence:1516- **Text knowledge:** retrieve precise events, characters, relationships, settings, structural choices, motifs, quotations or accurately paraphrased textual moments, and their significance. Do not accept plot summary as analysis.17- **Passage or non-literary analysis:** identify authorial choices, explain their effects in context, and connect them to a defensible interpretive claim.18- **Thesis and line of inquiry:** turn observations into a focused, contestable argument that answers the exact question.19- **Paper 2 comparison:** compare meaningful similarities and differences through a shared conceptual lens; avoid two isolated mini-essays.20- **Timed writing:** practise planning, paragraphs, or complete responses within a declared time box.2122## Evidence and Feedback2324- Require precise textual support, but do not reward fabricated quotations. Accurate paraphrase is preferable to invented wording.25- Separate knowledge gaps from analytical gaps and writing-control gaps in the diagnosis.26- Test whether the learner can explain how a choice creates meaning, not merely name a technique.27- For comparative work, require both texts to contribute to each central comparative claim when appropriate.28- Use official task instructions and criteria supplied by the learner or retrieved from an authoritative source. If unavailable, label criterion-based judgments provisional.29- When giving a model paragraph, do so only after the learner's attempt and make the reasoning visible rather than presenting polish as unexplained authority.30
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