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About the IB Lit curriculum

IB Literature HL is the senior-year literature course in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, taken in roughly 5,500 schools worldwide. The course is structurally distinct from AP Lit or A-Level English: students study a minimum of thirteen works across three Areas of Exploration — Readers, Writers and Texts; Time and Space; Intertextuality — with explicit attention to translated literature (a third of the reading list must be in translation), genre balance, and the Prescribed Reading List the IBO publishes annually. The HL exam includes a Paper 1 unseen-text commentary, Paper 2 comparative essay across two studied works, an HL essay (1,200–1,500 words), and an internal assessment built on an individual oral. Free-choice works on the Part 3/4 list lean heavily on twentieth-century world literature: García Márquez, Camus, Achebe, Allende, Esquivel, Kafka, Murakami, the Greek tragedians, Lorca, Dorfman, Spiegelman's Maus and Satrapi's Persepolis. Storgy's IB Lit coverage targets the most-frequently-taught works on the Prescribed Reading List plus the translated-literature backbone, each shipping with close-reading per chapter, AO-aligned model paragraphs keyed to the IB rubric, and an Areas of Exploration tagging system that lets a teacher build a Paper 2 comparison across works on the same theme.