The following course outline has been created both as an example of how one can navigate the Language and Literature course and as a guide for Mr. Philpot's Language and Literature students. You can find out more about the units of inquiry and featured text types by clicking on the links and exploring the corresponding pages on this Support Site. Note: Units with an asterisk (*) include a collection of non-literary bodies of work (BOWs), short stories, poems and song lyrics. 

Year 1

Dates	Unit of inquiry	Literary works, non-literary bodies of work (BOWs) and curated collections	Assessment
12 Aug. - 25 Sep.	Intro to 'lang and lit' Identity, privilege and race	13th (documentary) Lynchings (misc) Langston Hughes (poetry) Gordon Parks (photography) Key and Peele (comedy sketches)	HL Essay
28 Sep. - 16 Nov.	Beauty and perspective	The Bluest Eye (novel) Grace Nichols (poems) Dove Campaign (advertisements) Funmi Fetto (opinion columns) Aunt Jemima (advertisements)	Individual oral
23 Nov. - 18 Jan.	Conflict and transformation	Waltz with Bashir (animation) Persepolis (graphic novel) Understanding comics	Paper 2
27 Jan. - 8 Mar.	Oppression and culture	The Land of Green Plums	Paper 2
15 Mar. - 3 May	Gender and representation	Killing Us Softly (speech) Liza Donnelly (cartoons) The Mask You Live In (documentary) Muscle car ads (advertisements) Carol Ann Duffy (poems)	Paper 1
10 May - 14 Jun.	Sharing the planet	Ben & Jerry's (advertisements) Misc. speeches Ugur Gallenkus (art) Kate Tempest (poetry) Inconvenient Truth (documentary)	Paper 1

Year 2

Month	Units of inquiry	Literary works, non-literary bodies of work (BOWs) and curated collections	Assessment
12 Aug. - 25 Sep.	Equality and transformation	White Tiger (novel) Parasite (feature film) Bob Dylan (song lyrics) Banksy (street art) Ugur Gallenkus (photographs)	HL Essay
27 Sep. - 16 Nov.	Power and Justice	Othello (Play) Hamilton (Musical)	Paper 2
23 Nov. - 18 Jan.	Human ingenuity and creativity	Black Mirror (TV Series) Friday Black (short stories) American Meme (Documentary)	Paper 1
27 Jan. - 8 Mar.	Immigration and experience	Unwanted (graphic journalism) Amnesty International (advertisements) Various cartoons Immigration nation (documentary)	HL Essay  Individual oral
15 Mar. - 3 May	Exam preparation
May	Exams