1. Choose your extracts.  No more than 40 lines for your literary work (and for a graphic novel we suggest 1 page or under).  For your non-literary work, it may be a complete text - like a cartoon or advertisement or infographic - or it might be up to 40 lines from a magazine article or newspaper article or speech or something else.

For film or TV shows, use this model example extract to help you out.  It should be formatted like this! 

Example film extract

2. Print off a copy of your extracts to annotate.  Here is a model example of what that should look like:

Literary work: Clean copy of Macbeth extract

Non-literary text from a body of work: Clean copy of WW1 Poster

3. Annotate your extracts in depth – focus on author’s choices and effects in relation to your global issue.  If your extracts are too long, shorten them. Here is a model example of what your annotations might look like:

Literary work: Macbeth annotations

Non-literary text from a body of work: WW1 Poster annotations

4. Find examples, evidence, and connections to the “whole” literary work and non-literary body of work. Focus on the author’s choices and effects in relation to your global issue.  Write these examples and pieces of evidence down as you will need them later in the process.  Use the following worksheet to help you.

Annotations for the whole literary work and body of work

The worksheet asks for 5 examples or pieces of evidence for the literary work and 5 examples or pieces of evidence for the non-literary body of work.  You most likely won't use this many!  But, it's better to have more right now than to not know what you are going to say in the actual Individual Oral!