Text: Editorial: School funding system fundamentally unfair to many
Before you read the “spoiler” bullet points below take a careful look at the text. Imagine it is a text you are using for your DP Language A Language and Literature assessments: the individual oral, the HL essay, or Paper 1 and analyze it accordingly. (This text would not be appropriate for Paper 2).
Some elements of the text to consider:
- The geographic limits to the intended audience
- The goal(s) of the editorial
- How formal the language is
- The strong critical language in the text (e.g. “grossly unfair”)
- Direct references to politicians involved in the situation
- The use of dollar figures and comparison that support the editorial’s argument
- The structure of the the text (including the structure of the ideas in the editorial, as well as paragraph and sentence structure