Upper Secondary - Lycée

En Littérature, le programme du IGCSE Literature prépare nos élèves pour les compétences requises pour entreprendre les exigences du BFI. Les piliers du programmes sont: 

• close-reading and analysis
• ability to form pertinent and informed personal and critical responses
• clarity of expression when developing complex ideas. 

1e programme

The curriculum in 1ère operates as the first half of the Language-Literature programme for the Bacculauréat Français International, covering two of the three texts studied for the written exam, as well as two of the texts for the oral exam.

Written and oral texts studied cover the genres of prose, drama, and poetry and are chosen for their cultural importance, rich language and critical possibilities. Students are introduced step-by-step into the world of literary analysis, with targeted lessons polishing skills of quotation analysis, essay structure and the formation of a pertinent and thoughtful line of argument.

Te programme

The Terminale curriculum concludes the second half of the Language-Literature programme for the Bacculauréat Français International, covering the remaining text for the written exam and the final texts for the oral exam.

For the written text, students engage with the rich language of a Shakespeare play, exploring shades of meaning and thematic patterning to polish their skills of analytical writing. Alongside guided and regular preparation for the exam, lessons this year are structured towards developing autonomy and an ability to form, evidence and defend a mature and complex opinion about literature.

The first year in lycée opens with a transition towards more specialised and thematic approaches in History-Geography. The history curriculum looks at three moments of seminal importance in the history of the Anglosphere:

• European settler-colonial expansion in the Americas 
• the development of a British democratic tradition
• the founding and growth of the United States.

The Geography curriculum centres first on population and demographic studies and secondly on the challenges posed to individual nations and regions, particular in the post-colonial world.

Première:

The curriculum in 1ère operates as the first half of the History-Geography programme for the Bacculaureat Français International, with a focus on modern and contemporary British history and an introduction to indicators of economic development, regional inequalities and globalisation. This year aims to entrench new theoretical ways of analysing the past and present in order to think more critically about information and sources.

Terminale:

The Terminale curriculum concludes the second half of the History-Georgraphy programme for the Bacculaureat Français International, with a focus on European History in 20^th century and further development on the  complexities of globalisation and global development. This is woven in with exam preparation, including continued essay writing support, in order to hone evaluative and critical capacities towards both information and sources. 

The ‘Connaissance du Monde’ element of the Baccalauréat Français International invites students to take their skills of research, enquiry and analysis beyond the classroom and apply them to a personal and independent project.

Over the course of the two years in 1ère and Tle, students identify a research question of their choosing that they will study through the prism one of the three pathways of Connaissance du Monde: 

• Penser la société
• Habiter le monde
• Construire un avenir commun

Their final conclusions will then be examined  during an oral presentation at the end of their Terminale year. 

This personal enquiry will be assisted and complemented by an external partner that has both international links and a stake in the research question the student has formulated. Furthermore, teachers from across the Language & Literature and History-Geography departments work in concert, delivering workshops on research skills and supervising students as they pursue their projects.