This page will provide you with a clear task and activity, through which you'll be able to prepare effectively for the discussion of the non-literary body of work discussion within the Individual Oral.
Bodies of Work
In order to ensure that you discuss authorship, choice and impact within a non-literary study effectively, the IB are insisting that you discuss bodies of non-literary works as opposed to individual texts. This can cause problems in the Individual Oral, however, since you bring in one text or extract (one advertisement; one painting; one short essay; even one poem from the literary works), and the instinct is to perform a commentary on that extract, rather than to discuss the whole body of work (most of which you don't have in your hand). You must not make this mistake.
Pay attention to the structure of an effective Individual Oral in Individual Oral - Organising the 10 minutes.
Below you will find an activity that can be done in the classroom, or merely as a revision exercise with your classmates, that will prepare you effectively for the 2-minute section of the oral in which you discuss the non-literaru body of work from which your chosen extract has been taken:
Sample Student Work
Here you will find some outcomes of this very task - it is looking at a body of work by the street artist, Banksy. Please note, it is also an effective task to carry out when looking at poetry, and trying to ensure you connect a chosen poem to a full poetic work:
How much of Individual Oral - Body of Work Preparation have you understood?
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