Klausur (assessment) — Unit 1: Globalisation and the Self

Track E · Klasse 13 · Niveau E · Abitur-prep

Track E · Klasse 13 · Niveau E · Abitur-prep

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (Abitur-grade)
This Unit’s exam example follows the Abitur task pattern named in the Unit. Some Units focus on a single Abitur-task type (Comprehension / Analysis / Composition / Mediation / Kommunikationsprüfung); the full 90-BE Klausur is rehearsed in Klasse 12 Units 11-12 and continues in Klasse 13 Units 7-9.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Comprehension Link to heading

Read twice.

“Sen argues that no human being is reducible to a single belonging. Appiah argues for rooted cosmopolitanism — local and general loyalties at once. Lahiri describes writing in a second language as a small voluntary self-displacement.”

  1. Sen’s claim: ___ . 2. Appiah’s claim: ___ . 3. Lahiri’s experience: ___ . 4. The three convergence: ___ .

Analysis Link to heading

Read the three paraphrased frames above.

  1. Sen’s central claim: ___ . 2. Appiah’s framework name: ___ . 3. Lahiri’s metaphor for second-language writing: ___ . 4. What all three reject: ___ .

Composition / Mediation / Reflection Link to heading

Composition prompt: Develop your position on identity-and-globalisation in 250 words. Use 3 cosmopolitan terms + 1 cleft + 1 integrated quote.

Additional task Link to heading

Mediation prompt: A 250-word German Feuilleton-essay on Heimat. Mediate for an English-speaking literary-essay reader. (Source provided in class.)

Expected-answer profile (Erwartungshorizont) — sample
Comprehension. 1. plural identity (no single belonging); 2. rooted cosmopolitanism (local + general loyalties); 3. small voluntary self-displacement → third self; 4. all reject the cartoon of identity as a single sticker. Analysis. plural identity is the fact, rooted cosmopolitanism is the political stance, third self is the practical experience; rooted cosmopolitanism; a small voluntary self-displacement that produces a third version of yourself; the singular-identity cartoon. Composition. Open. Mediation. Open.
grading scale (Notenschlüssel) — Abitur-grade Klausuren

| 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 | | |

(Single-section Klausuren in this year scale to the proportional BE-weight of the section in the full Klausur.)