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IB Program
IB mission statement 
The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.
These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.
(© International Baccalaureate Organization 2019) IB at Kantonsschule Wettingen

 

Kantonsschule Wettingen has been an approved IB institution since April 7, 2010. One out of nine Gymnasium and Matura track classes per year strives for earning a double-degree, graduating with a Matura as well as with an IB diploma. This is only possible due to the fact that the aims of the IB and our Matura overlap greatly. Only one other institution in the state of Argovia offers its students the same opportunity. The IB Program takes place in year three and four.

KSWE chose to implement the IB to set an emphasis on global-mindedness in a time of migration and globalisation.

 

Requirements

In year 3 and 4, Students will read the following in literature:

-2 works written in target language (Prescribed Reading List (PRL) English)

-2 works in translation (Prescribed Reading List)

-2 instructor’s choices, not bound to the PRL (could theoretically also be in translation)

Students will also work on a equivalent amount of other texts/bodies of work (including photography, articles, documentaries etc.). These texts have to belong to a body of work, to teach the students the concept of authorship (single author).

 

Assessment

 

  • Paper 1

-35% of the grade

-guided textual analysis, 2hrs and 15 min

-based on unseen material

-students write a separate guided analysis of two non-literary passages from different text types

-questions are provided for each text, students might choose a different focus, but should clearly state so in the respective introductions

 

  • Paper 2

-25% of the grade, comparative essay. 1 hr and 45 min

-students are provided with four appropriate general questions

-they choose the most appropriate one based on the works they have chosen

-students compare and contrast two works studied in class based on the question provided

 

  • Individual Oral

-20% of the grade, 15min (10 min student individual oral, 5 min Q&A)

-after investigating a series of non-literary texts and literary works during the course and a variety of global issues, students choose one global issue and an extract from a literary work and one from a non-literary text which represent the issue, which they will then compare and analyse based on said issue

– one cannot use the same works as in paper 2

 

  • Higher Level Essay (one cannot use the same works as in paper 2)

-20% of the grade, marked externally, coursework because done in term time, formal, 1200-1500 words,

-based on a non-literary text, a collection of non-literary texts by one same author or a literary work studied in class

-focussed on a particular line of inquiry

-more than one short non-literary short text such as an advertisement or photograph or cartoon as long as texts are from a “body of work” from the same advertising company or photographer

-use of secondary sources in not mandatory (but it is advisable to do so)

-line of inquiry chosen by the student