If you teach in an IB school that has May exams, they are over for this year. Probably, that’s not escaped your attention. Well done. You made it. Maybe, now, you are beginning to look forward to some well-deserved time off. What are your plans? The beach? A lakeside cabin? At home, in your garden? A good book in a hammock? Whatever you do, we wish you well! Too soon, of course, school will come calling again, and it will be time to do it all again, just, you know, better than before. If you’re looking for a new literary work to teach, you could do worse than Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Remains of the Day, following the English butler, Stevens, on his road trip to the west country of 1950s England. If that’s appealing, we have already published ‘before reading’ materials. Today, we have published ‘while reading’ materials, and in the weeks to come we will add a lot of ‘after reading’ materials. All of this will be available come August, ready for a new northern hemisphere academic year. I plan to turn my attention to summer plans soon. After, that is, this marking business. 101 complete, 69 to go.

David (and Tim, who lives by the beach, and probably doesn’t need a vacation)