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13 Aug 2026
Back to School (For Some)
If you are in a southern hemisphere IB school, you will, we hope, forgive the self-absorption of your colleagues in the north. For us northerners, it is back to school time. At InThinking, we haven't...
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Over our summer holidays, we metaphorically renovated the house. Our site has a new, fresh look in line with all the other InThinking subject sites. You will find we relocated a lot of our materials...
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I discovered Claire Keegan's novella Small Things Like These last year too. Now, I'll read it with one of my classes. I don't want to ruin the experience by watching the movie though. I'll see what happens.
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Hi Virna, I've answered in corresponding number order. 1. I have my doubts about this one. I don't think it's possible (my understanding is that it is originally in Korean). However, we aren't the IB and you can always ask...
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hello, I have some doubts about the extended essay in english A language and literature. 1. my student wants to use omiscient readers viewpoint which is a South Korean apocalyptic fantasy web novel written by the author duo...
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Hi! What is the correct way to format a book title in Paper 2 for Portuguese A: Language and Literature? In quotation marks or underlined?
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