The Remains of the Day and ChatGPT: A Quiz
You may have heard of this thing called ChatGPT. Well, of course you have. However, if you are anything like us, you are unlikely to have worked out its implications for education and life in general....
Make a Change - Public Service Annoucements
Have you just finished a bleak and depressing novel? With the passing of Cormac McCarthy this week, I’m thinking of The Road in particular. I loved the novel, but it took me to some dark places. Do...
The Remains of the Day: After Reading
Are you interested in teaching, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, The Remains of the Day? The novel won the 1989 Booker Prize, Ishiguro received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, and he is on the IB’s Prescribed...
Greta Thunberg Speeches - Lessons 8 - 11
In this week’s update, we’ve added the final four lessons to the materials and resources from Greta Thunberg’s speeches. Lesson 8 is a jigsaw of three speeches. It's a fast lesson! Lesson 9 and Lesson...
The Remains of the Day: While Reading
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...
Greta Thunberg Speeches - Lessons 4 - 7
Two weeks ago, we started to add a set of lessons around Greta Thunberg speeches. Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 This week, we are publishing the next four lessons in the eleven-lesson series. Lesson 4 focuses...
The Remains of the Day - A Literary Work
This week, we are pleased to begin to offer you an extensive body of teaching materials to support you and your students as you read Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, The Remains of the Day. The novel won the Booker...
Greta Thunberg Speeches - A Body of Work
This week, we are starting to add a set lessons around Greta Thunberg speeches. The speeches come from 2018-2020 and specifically address climate change in some form. Please note, she has delivered a...
Paper 2: Sample Response 11 (A View from the Bridge and Persepolis)
I am writing this a few days before the May 2023 examinations begin. Having worked for many years as an examiner and senior examiner, there is, I will admit, a certain sense of apprehension that always...
November 2022 Paper 1: Sample Response 1 (Ode to Cauliflower)
This week, we’ve added an exemplar from the November 2022 Paper 1 examination. The response focuses on Text B, an article titled “Ode to Cauliflower” by Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl for the online magazine...