For Students - A New Heading on the Site
There’s a new section to the site we think is a pretty cool feature. While we are just beginning to develop it, we see a lot of potential in it. It’s called “For Students” and it’s exactly what the...
Approaching Exams: An Open Letter to Students
Dear Students, Rites of passage, including coming of age, often involve elaborate and sometimes painful rituals. From around the world, some of these transition to adulthood ceremonies involve wearing...
May and November 2022 Exams - Important Announcement – No Paper 2!
The IB recently sent an email to all IB Coordinators. In it, they said this (among other things): "Due to the continued loss of instructional time which will also have impacted these students, we have...
Site Reorganization
As 2020 comes to a close, so too ends the first iteration of the Language and Literature course. With that in mind, we’ve reorganized the site. Please note that nothing of substance has been lost! ...
Best Books of 2020 (July - December)
As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share some recent reads with you. In the past six months, I’ve enjoyed a pretty wide variety of books: nonfiction about race, poker, tennis, and a serial killer;...
No Moderation for the May 2021 Individual Oral
For the May 2021 examination session, the Individual Oral will not go through the normal moderation process by the IB. Instead, it will be externally marked by an examiner. You will need to send the...
Individual Oral: Exemplar 4 (Macbeth and WW1 Propaganda Poster)
This latest post is for subscribers only. You can access the newest Individual Oral exemplar here or you can go through the top level headings and find it under "Assessment (2021 exams)" then "Individual...
May 2021 Examination - Weightings
The IB has released the final weightings for the May 2021 exams. You can find the official document here. Because Paper 2 has been canceled, they had to revise the worth of the remaining assessment...
Important Announcement – Assessment Changes to May 2021 Exams
Language and Literature students will no longer sit Paper 2 in the May 2021 examinations. That assessment is out. Full stop. In August of 2020, the IB released a document titled “At a glance: the May...
Best Books (so far) of 2020
I hope this blog post finds you and your families doing well: safe, healthy, sane, and in good spirits. It’s been an incredibly trying six months, and in that time I have found solace within the books...