Klausur (assessment) — Unit 1: Dystopias

Track E · Klasse 12 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden

Track E · Klasse 12 · 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

Read the 1984 opening (paraphrased above) and answer:

  1. The telescreen does what two things simultaneously? 2. Newspeak is designed to do what? 3. The regime’s primary linguistic move: ___ . 4. How does Orwell’s regime differ from Huxley’s? ___ .

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

Read the Brave New World paraphrase and answer:

  1. Where does conditioning begin? 2. What is the function of soma? 3. Pleasure plays what role? 4. Compared with Orwell, what is the linguistic register?

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

Composition prompt: Choose one motif. Trace it across the three dystopias in 250 words. Use 2 integrated quotes + 3 academic discourse markers + 1 cleft.

Mediation (~30 BE) Link to heading

Mediation prompt: A German review of The Handmaid’s Tale describes the novel as ’eine Warnung mit langer Halbwertszeit’. Mediate a 250-word German source for an English-speaking literary magazine. (Source provided in class.)

Expected-answer profile (Erwartungshorizont) — sample
Comprehension. 1. watches AND broadcasts; 2. narrow the range of thought; 3. shrinking vocabulary (Newspeak); 4. Orwell suppresses dissent through linguistic narrowing; Huxley dilutes dissent through pleasure. Analysis. 1. in the bottle (pre-natal conditioning); 2. dissolves discontent without argument; 3. weaponised — pleasure is the control lever; 4. advertising-bright / consumer-coded register. Composition. Open. Reward thesis + integrated quotes. Mediation. Open. Reward register, hedge preservation, cultural notes.
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 | | |