Best Books (July - December 2022)
I’ve been reading novels for the past six months that deal with children being taken from their parents (The School for Bad Mothers), children being forced to migrate (What Strange Paradise), children...
2022 Paper 1: Sample Response 3 (Climate Change)
In this week’s update, we’ve added another Paper 1 from the climate change text found in the National Geographic website. You can find the response here and the other two responses from this exam here...
ChatGPT - The End of Writing?
Have you heard about or checked out ChatGPT? You can find a link to it here. As my Dad likes to say, holy smokes! According to Wikipedia, “ChatGPT is a prototype artificial intelligence chatbot developed...
2022 Paper 1: Sample Response 2 (Travel Blog)
This is the second exemplar we have published analyzing a travel blog from the May 2022 time zone 2 Paper 1 examination. The first response can be found here. We encourage you and your students to compare...
2022 Paper 1: Sample Response 2 (Climate Change)
In this week’s update, we’ve added a second exemplar responding to the text about climate change from the National Geographic website. You can find the new exemplar here and the first exemplar here....
2022 Paper 1: Sample Response 1 (Travel Blog)
This is the first of several exemplars from the May 2022 Paper 1 examination (time zone 2) we are publishing. This model example responds to a blog by a journalist travelling by bike. Of course, Higher...
2022 Paper 1: Sample Response 1 (Climate Change)
In this week’s update, we are starting to publish responses from the May 2022 examination session. Please note that we cannot reprint the actual examinations (IB or others own the copyright). We wish...
HL Essay: Exemplar 8 (Graphic Novel - Hostage)
In this week’s post, we wanted to provide an exemplar based on a graphic novel for the Higher Level Essay. There are so many questions when writing about a graphic novel. How do students incorporate...
2022 Category 2 Extended Essay (The Bell Jar and The Vegetarian)
In this week’s update, we’ve published an excellent Category 2 Extended Essay. The student takes a well-known, classic piece of literature and compares and contrasts it to a contemporary award-winning...
US Army Commercials - Lessons 8-10
In this week’s update, we’ve added the final 3 lessons to the materials and resources from the US Army TV commercials. The focus here is on assessment – and experimenting with an “alternative” IB assessment. ...