Course map

The leaner portfolio

Course map

As you read your texts/works throughout the course, you can use this tool to keep track of the text types and/or literary forms you have covered and relate them to the
global Issues, concepts and areas of exploration to plan your assessment components. Some of the rows have been filled in as an example.

Non-literary text types

Text type Characteristic of text type Texts/works and connections Personal comments

Advertisement

Appeal

Biography

Blog

Brochure Visual aspect: pictures, graphs, diagrams, figures, tables > WWF brochure Easy to:
enhance the message
Area of exploration: readers, writers and • determine the target of the
Typography choice (size, font, headings) and layout > simplify texts brochure and the context.
the reading
Field of inquiry: Science, technology and
Alignment/layout: how are these elements connected? the natural world
Difficult to:
Objective: informative Global issue: global warming
• link the image and the text
Concepts: communication and
representation • analyse the effect of typography.

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AIDS brochure
Area of exploration: readers, writers and
texts
Field of inquiry: culture, identity and
community
Global issue: representation of minority
groups
Concepts: communication and
representation
Assessment components: IA?

Cartoon Look at the background > contextualization
Use of symbols, metonymy, and stereotypes > reader
recognizes the character immediately
Caricature: disproportionate head to emphasize facial
expressions
Allusion, juxtaposition, humour, satire
Important relation between text and image.
Patrick Chappatte cartoons from The Easy to:
International New York Times
• figure out the target of the brochure
Area of exploration: time and space and the context.
Field of inquiry: beliefs, values and
education
Difficult to:
Global issue: immigrants and host
culture • link the image and the text
Concepts: bulture and perspective • analyse the effect of typography.
Assessment components: HL Essay?

Diagram

Diary

Electronic texts

Essay

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Encyclopaedia
entry

Film/television

Guide book

Infogram

Interview

Letter (formal)

Letter (informal)

Magazine article

Manifesto

Memoir

Parody

Pastiche

Photograph

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Radio broadcast

Report

Screenplay

Set of
instructions

Speech Immediate delivery: needs to catch the audience in one go Malcolm X speech, "The Ballot or the Easy: tone, objective, and context of the
Bullet", April 12, 1964 text was easy to identify and analyse.
-> ideas have to be clear
Area of exploration: time and space
Uses rhetorical features: anaphora, epistrophe, anadiplosis,
repetition of ideas expressed in a different form -> audience will Field of inquiry: politics, power and Difficult: remember the name of some
remember later on justice rhetorical features -> need to review
them.
Figurative language: comparisons, metaphors -> simplify the Global issue: bringing about social
complex ideas, make the audience “see” the concepts change
discussed
Concepts: identity and culture
Uses catchphrases that the audience will remember later on.
Assessment components: Paper 1
Linking of ideas is essential because it gives a sense of logic to
the ideas presented
Purpose: convince and persuade

Textbook

Travel writing

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Literary forms
Literary form and Characteristic of literary form or category Texts/works and connections Personal comments
categories

Poetry

Song lyrics Recurrent patterns. build-up crescendo (anaphora, incremental Radiohead

repetition)
Structure dictated by interaction with music—can be described
in terms of musical patterning and rhythm
Figures of speech related to sound
Narrative and/or lyrical elements
Persona poetica and its characteristics
Area of exploration: readers, writers and
texts
Field of inquiry: art, creativity and the
imagination
Global issue: the limits to individual
expression arising from ineffability
Concepts: communication, creativity,
identity
Assessment components: paper 2

Fiction

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Non-fiction

Drama

Language A teacher support material 6