Klausur (assessment) — Unit 4: Contemporary Poetry

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.

“The fragmentary lyric refuses syntactic completeness; lines break off mid-thought; the white space is part of the meaning. The document poem uses found material — court transcripts, treaties — and the I is ironised. The polyvocal lyric allows multiple speakers without quote marks.”

  1. Fragmentary lyric: ___ . 2. Document poem: ___ . 3. Polyvocal lyric: ___ . 4. Shared refusal: ___ .

Analysis Link to heading

Read the three forms paraphrased above.

  1. The role of white space: ___ . 2. The documentary source: ___ . 3. The polyvocal boundary: ___ . 4. The ironised I: ___ .

Composition / Mediation / Reflection Link to heading

Composition prompt: Apply the ironised I to one short poem (provided in class) in 350 words. Use 3 contemporary-poetic terms + 4 markers.

Additional task Link to heading

Mediation prompt: A 200-word German literary-essay paragraph on contemporary Lyrik. Mediate for an English-speaking poetry magazine. (Source provided in class.)

Expected-answer profile (Erwartungshorizont) — sample
Comprehension. 1. broken syntax + white space as meaning; 2. uses found material (court, government, treaty); 3. multiple speakers without quote marks; 4. refusal of the unified Romantic I. Analysis. 1. white space as part of speaker’s silence; 2. archival material confronts the lyric I; 3. boundary between speakers is the formal site of meaning; 4. structurally compromised I. 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.)