Klausur (assessment) — Unit 9: A Modern Novel (Basisfach focus)

Track E · Klasse 11 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden

Track E · Klasse 11 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)
Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen twice.

“By chapter four, Klara has been established as a narrator whose limitation is also her reliability. Her reports are literal-minded and quietly devastating. The deceptive plainness — the Sun would always come into the store, no matter the weather — is the novel’s signature register.”

  1. Klara’s central pair: ___ . 2. Tone of reports: ___ . 3. Plainness — what kind: ___ . 4. Register: ___ .

Part B — Analysis (~18 BE) Link to heading

Read the Klara ch. 4 extract above.

  1. The shop’s defining detail: ___ . 2. Klara’s best customers: ___ . 3. Lesson she draws: ___ . 4. Implied thesis: ___ .

Part C — Composition (~18 BE) Link to heading

Quote integration.

  1. Drop-in → integrated: Ishiguro writes: ’the Sun would always come into the store.’ → ___
  2. Drop-in → integrated: Klara says: ‘my best customers were the ones who walked away.’ → ___
  3. Embedded fragment using “slow lane”: → ___
  4. Embedded fragment using “no matter the weather”: → ___

Mediation (~30 BE) Link to heading

Write 350 words: a Basisfach literary essay on Klara and the Sun ch. 1-4. Use 2 integrated quotes + 1 embedded fragment + 3 markers.

Expected-answer profile (Erwartungshorizont) — sample
T1. her limitation is also her reliability; literal-minded / quietly devastating; deceptive plainness; the novel’s signature register. T2. the Sun and the dust on the windows of the slow lane; the ones who walked away (= longer-looking, non-buying); concentrated, unrequited attention is what Klara experiences; first-person narration uses limited frames to expose frames we don’t notice. T3. Ishiguro lets Klara observe that ’the Sun would always come into the store.’ / Klara reflects that her best customers were ’the ones who walked away.’ / The ‘slow lane’ of the novel’s title becomes, by ch. 4, a literal shop fixture. / Klara reports the Sun coming ’no matter the weather’ as if it were observable fact. T4. Open.
grading scale (Notenschlüssel) (von 90 BE)
| 86–90 | 1+ | 81–85 | 1 | 76–80 | 1- | | 71–75 | 2+ | 66–70 | 2 | 61–65 | 2- | | 56–60 | 3+ | 51–55 | 3 | 46–50 | 3- | | 41–45 | 4+ | 36–40 | 4 | 30–35 | 4- | | 22–29 | 5 | 0–21 | 6 | | |