IB Written Assignment You chose 3 articles (“sources”) in Spanish from the internet to read and base your writing on; you need to use facts and figures from the texts and incorporate them into your writing. Example: you write an interview between a Guatemalan immigrant to the U.S. and a journalist in which the immigrant recounts details of immigration that you found in your articles, and maybe the journalist also gives statistics that are from the articles. Your text will be fiction, although you will use facts from the articles / sources. You choose a text type from this list: Article, column Blog Brochure, leaflet, flyer, pamphlet, advertisement Interview in any form News report Report Review Set of instructions, guidelines Written correspondence

The text (300-400 words): The content of your writing and the articles comes from the 3 IB Core Topics and relate to a Spanish-speaking country / culture: Communication and media Global issues Social relationships

The “Rationale” (150-200 words): You must write a 150-200 word “rationale” that: introduces the subject briefly describes your 3 sources states and describes your “aims” (what you want to say) describe how you achieved your “aims”: say how your text type helped the audience you chose the register and style you used (formal vs. informal; tú form vs. passive voice; some slang vs. none; negative vs. positive etc.)

Type accents and upside-down things: With Microsoft Word: Press and hold ctrl and ‘ and then the vowel Press and hold ctrl and Shift and ~ and then the n ¿ = alt 0191 ¡ = alt 0161 With a Mac: I don’t know. With Google Docs: I don’t know because I don’t believe in a private company automatically owning everything that I produce.

It’s a test grade.

Where and when do this? Your homework is to find, print, and turn in the articles; I’ll make sure they’re “legit” and give them back. Then, you write it at home. You can use wordreference. I grade it. I give it back to you and you correct it, a la our normal essay routine.