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...
Men's Health Magazine Covers (body of work)
As always, we are adding to our non-literary bodies of work on the site. You can find a curated page of those non-literary bodies of work here. We have also published, in conjunction with some of them,...
Word of Mouth (A Body of Work): (v) Coinages
What is the OED’s 2023 word of the year? What do etymologists do and what are the challenges of doing etymology? What is podcast chemistry and how can you recognise it? You know that language changes,...
Text-Type Debates (Masculinity)
This week, we are continuing to post resources about the representation of masculinity. Two weeks ago, we published a page that begins this discussion – found here. This week, we have set up debates...
Further Update: Changes to Paper 2 for May 2026 Exams and Beyond
A few weeks ago, we alerted you to the upcoming changes to Paper 2 marking criteria. Please see this post. There are a few things that we would like to restate, and we have a few additional points to...