How to build a good GI

Preparing your Oral

All you need to know

Selecting a Field of Inquiry

Culture, Identity and Community Beliefs, Values and Education Politics, Power and Justice Art, Creativity and the Imagination Science, Technology and the Environment

Or the 7 concepts of IB

Characteristics of a Global Issue:

• significance on a wide/large scale
• be transnational
• demonstrate impact in everyday/local context

Make a claim

You need to make intelligent, specific claims about how texts present such global issues. The challenge here is to move skilfully between the global issue and the specifics of a text and its cultural context.

Let's assess some examples

Identity and perception by peers and society in The Great Gatsby and The Wind up Bird Chronicle.

'Identity' and 'perception by peers and society' are large, somewhat generalised topics and don't inherently connect. Improved version:

The way in which personal identity can be affected by peer perception.

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How society's contrived gender roles restrict women's actions and livelihood in Hedda Gabler and Emily Dickinson's poetry.

'There is also quite a lot going on here, and the statement is clumsily phrased. How about:

The way in which attitudes towards gender can restrict women's sense of status.

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How cultures determine the worth of men based on their financial contributions to their families - with reference to Metamorphosis and A Raisin in the Sun.

'The issue here might well be that the student has chosen a topic that is very particular to the two texts, and find it hard to relate to other 'transnational' or real world contexts.

The relationship between money and masculine identity.

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Injustice.

Fairly obviously, nominating a global issue in the form of a single word is unlikely to yield good results. The candidate needs to aim for more specificity or the possibility of a direction.

The importance of the imagination as a way to combat injustice.

some good examples

Education as a means of empowerment ...The impact of political oppression on the individual's struggle for creative freedom... The psychological effects of grief ... The representation of Violence... Sexuality as a force of repression and liberation...

Structure of the oral

Duration: 30 seconds. Clearly present Global Issue, present the work and how it connects to the GI. State the angle of your oral. (How you will prove your point: Thesis)

introduction

Duration: 2 min. You will present your extract and brief context. Analyse at least 2 ways in which authorial choices communicate the GI, your interpretation and evaluation of each one.

Extract

Duration: 2 min. You will analyse at least 2 ways in which authorial choices communicate the GI, your interpretation and evaluation of each one in the whole work.

Whole Work/ Body of work

Duration: 30 seconds. State your final evaluation of the authorial choices and how effectively they communicate the GI.

Conclusion

Listen to some of the good examples from your own classmates in previous orals.