Month: September 2020

IO Final

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My final IO was between the THT section in the Jezebels club and a political cartoon called Rule of Law. I actually first came up with this connection when first coming up with IO ideas in Y12 (DP Year 1) and I first wrote it out in the second paragraph of a post on my learner portfolio titled ‘IO Preparation’, published on December 21, 2019. They connected with higher-ranking men worsening the oppression of women.

Excerpt from Learner Portfolio post titled ‘IO Preparation’, published on December 21, 2019

I think it went well. My memorisation and practice enabled me to learn what I said really well to help the fluidity of my IO, I used the same technique as I did in my practice as I found that worked well, except this time I memorised more as I had more time to work on it. When I was speaking I was confident in what I was saying, and I did end up saying more analysis than I planned as I recently had discovered more things to analyse. I think I did a better job analysing my non-literary extract but I hope that my literary extract was still analysed well enough. I feel like I improved from my practice as my connections and global issue was much stronger so I hope it paid off but I am glad it’s over and now all I need to focus on in English is Paper 1, due to COVID.

IO Practice

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On Tuesday 15th, I did my practice IO presentation. It compared the section from TILOHL about Henrietta’s procedure with an article from IFLScience about drug use on rats. I connected this through the ethics and consent in scientific procedures. To practice what I was going to say, I memorised the introduction paragraphs for each text as that had necessary information in it that I needed to say, and then with the analysis sections it was easy to do as my 10 points included the examples and why I used them. I found it a lot easier to learn what I was going to say for the analysis sections as I could easily analyse the examples I had and for the memorised paragraphs I just practiced them over and over again.

After doing my IO, I got feedback. I did well on keeping time and staying within 10 but also not being too short. I also had a good balance, time wise, between the extracts. The main thing to work on is my analysis of the different elements as my literary extract was analysed better than my non-literary- this was mainly due to not being that focused on this practice as it wasn’t anything like what I would be doing in my final. I think overall I did okay for my practice, my grade wasn’t the best but I know I can improve for my final.