These resources enhance an IBDP literature classroom by encouraging students to engage deeply with various representations of reality across literary forms, encouraging analytical thinking, creative expression, and critical engagement with texts. Each activity is tailored to help students understand different literary approaches and their effects on the portrayal of reality. Here is a one-line summary of each resource:

                  1.             Comparing Artistic and Literal Representations: Explores realism and magical realism through comparison to understand different literary representations of reality.

                  2.             Film vs. Text – Adaptation and Representation: Analyzes the transformation of literary texts into film, noting changes in representation.

                  3.             Real vs. Fictional Worlds – Creating Parallel Universes: Encourages the creation of fictional worlds that reflect or critique real-world issues.

                  4.             Realism vs. Imagination Debate: Engages students in a debate over the merits of realism versus imaginative storytelling in literature.

                  5.             Role-Playing Author’s View on Representation: Involves role-playing to explore different authors’ views on literary representation.

                  6.             Quiz on Representation: Utilizes specific literary passages to quiz students on themes of representation.

                  7.             The Influence of Form on Representation: Compares how different literary forms affect the representation of common themes.

                  8.             Unreliable Narrators and Distorted Reality: Examines how narrators’ reliability affects the representation of reality in literature.

                  9.             Visualizing Representation – Graphic Novel Analysis: Analyzes how graphic novels use visuals and text to represent reality.

                  10.          Writing Representational Manifestos: Encourages students to articulate their views on the role of literature in representing reality through manifesto writing.

These resources collectively foster a comprehensive understanding of how various literary elements and techniques shape our perception of reality, preparing students for sophisticated literary analysis and appreciation.