Klausur (assessment) — Unit 5: Political Discourse

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

Listen / read twice.

“To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say. You turn if you want to. The lady’s not for turning.”

  1. Speaker / year: ___ . 2. Antithesis: ___ . 3. Register shift: ___ . 4. Allusion: ___ .

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

Read the three excerpts above.

  1. Lincoln archaic register: ___ . 2. Thatcher’s ethos move: ___ . 3. COP30 delegate’s frame-setting: ___ . 4. The kairos in each: ___ .

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

Composition prompt: Compare the rhetorical moves in Lincoln and the COP30 delegate in 250 words. Use 2 integrated quotes + 3 markers + 1 rhetorical-vocabulary term.

Mediation (~30 BE) Link to heading

Mediation prompt: A 250-word German Bundestag speech excerpt. Mediate the speaker’s rhetorical stance for an English-speaking political-rhetoric researcher. (Source provided in class.)

Expected-answer profile (Erwartungshorizont) — sample
Comprehension. 1. Thatcher 1980; 2. You turn ↔ The lady’s not for turning; 3. the lady (third-person, stately) for I; 4. Christopher Fry, The Lady’s Not for Burning (1948). Analysis. 1. Four score and seven years ago (biblical / register-elevating); 2. the lady — ethos as institutional; 3. the policy you write today is the policy I am eighty-two years old in (pathos + logos + age-frame); 4. Lincoln 1863 in war / Thatcher 1980 recession / COP30 2024 climate-action urgency. 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 | | |