International Baccalaureate @ Granada High School

IB English HL 1 is the first year of a two-year program comprised of four parts: two parts focus on nonfiction texts and two parts focus on fiction texts.

 

One of the primary goals of this course is to enable students to interpret and analyze texts independently. In support of this goal, students will learn how to identify and interpret formal elements (rhetorical, literary, and poetic devices). Assignments will require the analysis of the effects of language, context, audience, and purpose on texts, as well as the evaluation of more than one viewpoint and/or theme in a text. Ultimately, the course aims to help students, through the study of a variety of texts including articles, essays, advertisements, speeches, novels, poetry, plays, and visual art forms, to become internationally-minded individuals who are aware of the constructs of culture, capable of expressing their thoughts clearly both orally and in writing, and adhering to standard writing conventions.