Guidelines+for+IOC

You will have twenty minutes prep time for annotation and organization. You have ten to twelve minutes monologue time. You will have three to five minutes question time (responding to approximately two questions).
 * The Individual Oral Commentary**

__Your Introduction__ · Your official IB name · Your school · Your IB candidate number __Introduction__ __of passage__ · Title of text · Writer of text · Placement of passage in text (ie. Act, scene if you know it etc) · What is, briefly, happening in this passage? · What has happened immediately before the scene or much earlier but still closely connected to the scene? · What will happen immediately after the scene or much later but still closely connected to the scene? Anything else, briefly, you think the examiner might want to hear about significance of the work as a whole (eg. Political propaganda, background of writer…anything that reveals you know more than just //Sparks Notes//) but make sure it is connected to the passage, not simply regurgitated information. · WHAT ARE THE SIGNIFICANT ASPECTS OF THIS PASSAGE? Most likely, the passage will be important for one, some, or even all of the following reasons – character and/or relationship exposure/ establishment of setting/ contribution to plot/ development of theme /connections between any of the aforementioned reasons. __Body of Commentary__ v Discuss your first important aspect v Make your Point in relation to significance of the passage, give supporting textual Evidence, Explain the connection between your Point and the text Evidence by Analyzing meaning through language, sound, structure, literary features, dramatic conventions and so on. v Repeat. v Repeat again. And again…. v Present your second important aspects and follow similar procedure. v Do the same for each aspect.

LITERARY FEATURES (including, in the discussion of plays, DRAMTIC CONVENTIONS) must be part of your argument. Literary devices are always used by the writer to develop characterization, establish setting, contribute to plot or develop theme and so on.

__Conclusion__ Summarize what you have said. Try not to use the exact words from your introduction. Be direct and brief. //Relax. Breath. Good luck. Have fu////n.//