Klausur (assessment) — Unit 4: Shakespeare in Extract

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 twice.

“That time of year thou mayst in me behold, / When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang / Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, / Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.”

  1. Modern word order of l. 1: ___ . 2. The tightening rhythm of l. 2: ___ . 3. Image l. 4: ___ . 4. What the synecdoche is doing: ___ .

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

Read the four lines above.

  1. Form: ___ . 2. Speaker: ___ . 3. Figurative move: ___ . 4. Implied volta location: ___ .

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

Composition prompt: Close-read Sonnet 73 in 300 words. Use 3 integrated quotes + 4 markers.

Mediation (~30 BE) Link to heading

Mediation prompt: A 200-word German Shakespeare translation note (Schlegel-Tieck). Mediate the translator’s argument for an English-speaking literary reader. (Source provided in class.)

Expected-answer profile (Erwartungshorizont) — sample
Comprehension. 1. You may behold that time of year in me.; 2. yellow leaves, or none, or few — three options shrinking; 3. bare ruined choirs (= boughs as choir-stalls); 4. linking personal mortality to historical ruination. Analysis. Shakespearean sonnet, opening quatrain, iambic pentameter; aging speaker to younger beloved; speaker-as-late-autumn-tree (metonymy with synecdoche); line 13 (couplet). Composition. Open. Mediation. 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 | | |