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Language A: Language and literature (generic)
IB DP Category 2
Barcelona, Spain, 14 - 16 February 2025
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English A: Language and literature
IB DP Category 2
Paris, France, 21 - 23 February 2025
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English A: Literature
IB DP Category 2
Online (IB Approved), 21 - 23 March 2025
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Virtual Think-Ins
Paper 1 in DP Language A: Language & Literature and Literature
Virtual Think-In, 27 January 2025
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Paper 2 in DP Language A: Language & Literature and Literature
Virtual Think-In, 29 January 2025
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The Individual Oral in DP Language A: Language & Literature and Literature
Virtual Think-In, 11 February 2025
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May 2024 Paper 1 (ChatGPT) - New Exemplar and a Lesson Plan
This week, we are publishing another Paper 1 from the May 2024 time zone 2 exam. You can find the newest exemplar here. We are also publishing a lesson plan that uses this exemplar and the first...
May 2024 Paper 1: Sample Response 1 (Infographic)
This week we are publishing another Paper 1 from the May 2024 examination session. The text is an infographic aimed at developing the film industry in East Africa. More often than not, we can locate...
The Awakening: Before Reading
This week, we are introducing materials for teaching and studying Kate Chopin’s short novel, The Awakening (1899). In the coming weeks we will present more materials – more materials than we anticipate...
May 2024 Paper 1 Exemplar
This week – and for the next several months – we will be updating the site with exemplars from the May 2024 examination session. We are starting with Paper 1, but we will also be adding Paper 2 exemplars...
Paper 2 - Marking Updates
This week, we’ve been updating all of our Paper 2 exemplars. You will now find two sets of marks for each model example for all 17 samples on the site. You can find the exemplars under the following...
Men's Health Magazine Covers (Lessons 8-11)
This is the last of a series of posts about the representation of masculinity using Men's Health magazine covers as a non-literary body of work. It functions as a set of 10 lessons - a full unit of study...
Word of Mouth (A Body of Work): (vii) Football Club Names
Football, without much doubt, is the most popular sport in the world. Some of you may refer to the game as soccer, but in the majority of the world it is called football. Whatever you prefer to call it,...
Paper 2 - New Criteria for May 2026 Exams Found on My IB
The IB has released the grading criteria for Paper 2, first exams in May 2026. To get your hands on the new grading criteria, you will need to login to My IB. Once you have logged in, do the following:...
Men's Health Magazine Covers (Lessons 4-7)
Two weeks ago, we started publishing our resources, materials, and lesson plans using Men’s Health magazine covers as a non-literary body of work. You can find the first three lessons below. Lesson 1...
Word of Mouth (A Body of Work): (vi) Finding Global Issues
This week, we have published our 6th page in our Word of Mouth podcast series. It’s a non-literary body of work that is tremendously relevant to a course called Language and Literature. To date (writing...