Klausur (assessment) — Unit 3: Dystopias and Utopias

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.

“Le Guin’s anarchist moon Anarres has no government, no property, and no money — and a very real culture of informal social pressure that makes dissent exhausting. The subtitle An Ambiguous Utopia is load-bearing.”

  1. Three absences: ___ . 2. Hidden cost: ___ . 3. Subtitle: ___ . 4. Subtitle’s role: ___ .

Analysis Link to heading

Read the three extracts above.

  1. More — defining feature: ___ . 2. Le Guin — disclosed cost: ___ . 3. Atwood — relation to utopia: ___ . 4. Shared structural insight: ___ .

Composition / Mediation / Reflection Link to heading

Composition prompt: Argue that Atwood’s Gilead speaks utopia’s vocabulary while functioning as dystopia in 350 words. Use 3 integrated quotes + 4 markers + 1 cleft.

Additional task Link to heading

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

Expected-answer profile (Erwartungshorizont) — sample
Comprehension. 1. no government / no property / no money; 2. informal social pressure; 3. An Ambiguous Utopia; 4. load-bearing — utopia is structured to disclose its costs. Analysis. 1. no private property + elected magistrates + humane but homogeneous; 2. dissent is exhausting; 3. speaks utopia’s vocabulary while functioning as dystopia; 4. dystopian inversion is utopia’s disclosed underside. 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.)