May 2014 English A Lit HL/SL Paper 2

[Dotty]

Yeah! Tz2 q3, sound and light, just before the exam me and my classmates did a plan for sound! SO lucky. I used as texts "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf" and "The Duchess of Malfi".

[Chris Schmitz]

From these responses, it seems like us TZ2 folks are going to get a tough grading curve on this paper... although if we're all as confident in our answers as we say, I doubt it'll make a notable difference.

[tiffany_wu888]

LOL...i did the light/sound one on streetcar + salesman as well...as did about half my class
seems like the examiners will be reading a lot of similar papers this year!

[Dax]

English has always been a tough Subject. But there is relatively easier grading because each answer is unique. I say in contrast to how the other papers have been coming, English wasn't so bad!

[Chewybumfluf]

Am I the only one who did the 'breaking the fourth wall' question?!?!

[kayaytea]

I loved the TZ2 question as well -- our class practiced similar questions before. I did the minor character question using 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Williams and 'A View from the Bridge' by Miller.

[SeniorStatus14]

The short stories and novels question of "the importance of journey" was AMAZING!! I don't know how I did though, but for some reason I felt I did better on paper 1...Oh well, we'll find out in July! Praying for a 6 or 7 so I can get out of English Composition 1 & 2 in college!

[judIB]

I thought the light and sound question was amazing too. I reread it several times to make sure it was what I thought it was. I used A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman.

Same here, had almsot too much to write lol

Same! I love that paper. I talked about everything from their mental state to their characterisation and the setting. I loved it

[Jo_sephi_ne]

I (and many others in my college) HATED the drama questions, the general consensus was that didn't work well with our plays at all. Aside from that I personally didn't think that the questions were that great.
I did question 1 and discussed the presentation of minor characters in King Lear (Shakespeare), Arcadia (Stoppard) and Endgame (Beckett), I wrote plenty (16 pages) but I'm still a bit nervous.

[biolover101]

Hey!!

TZ1, did the Prose: novel and short story, question number 9, about sympathy.. Used "Jane Eyre" and "The Bride Price". I think it was the best paper 2 I ever done, so really happy with it!! The whole paper though was straight-forward enough, better than expected

I did question 9 too, on god of small things and the awakening. What key things did you talk about for sympathy?

[Izaskis]

Did anyone else in TZ1 HL do question 1? The one about authors indirectly telling the audience their messages. I did it on Emily Dickinson's poems (tell all the truth, I heard a fly buzz, and a toad can die of light) and The Poisonwood Bible (reading as an allegory).

[Clau.LP]

hi guys, i wrote death of a salesman and streetcar with question one minor characters i felt english was really good this year including p1

[elaifyanre]

 

Did anyone realize that the IBsurvival revision guide has a question extremely similar to q3 of the drama questions in paper 2 TZ1?

I chose q2, but I struggled to resist the temptation of doing q3, it's just that I've just discussed something related to 2 that morning with my teacher, which made up my mind. (plus there's more things to talk about)

What were questions 2 & 3 for drama?? 

 

Sorry I don't exactly remeber, but I think q2 was about presence/absence of narrator/chorus's comments and their effect in "finding the meaning" of the play.

q3 was about short/long time frames or something like that.

Note that I'm TZ1, the TZ2 questions are different.