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The Extended Essay in DP Language A
Virtual Think-In, 26 November 2024
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Writing Well for DP Language A: Language & Literature and Literature Examinations
Virtual Think-In, 27 November 2024
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The Individual Oral in DP Language A: Language & Literature and Literature
Virtual Think-In, 28 November 2024
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The Awakening: Before Reading
Welcome to this unit of study on Kate Chopin’s short novel from 1899, The Awakening. Chopin is on the Prescribed Reading List (PRL). These pages have been written specifically with IB students in mind,...
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The Awakening: Before Reading
This week, we are introducing materials for teaching and studying Kate Chopin’s short novel, The Awakening (1899). In the coming weeks we will present more materials – more materials than we anticipate...
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May 2024 Paper 1 Exemplar
This week – and for the next several months – we will be updating the site with exemplars from the May 2024 examination session. We are starting with Paper 1, but we will also be adding Paper 2 exemplars...
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2024 Paper 1: Sample Response 1 (ChatGPT)
The May 2024 Paper 1 examination – one of two different Paper 1 examinations in different time zones – included an “opinion article” that “was published in UX Collective, an online newsletter and blog.” ...
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May 2024 Paper 1s
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Dystopian Fiction: A Cultural Debate Free
The academic and expert on dystopian fiction, Gregory Claeys, has suggested that the dystopian genre emerged in the late 19th century as a response to Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888). Bellamy’s...
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Paper 1 Practice Exam: Infographic
Below, you will find a Paper 1 practice exam. It is an infographic (a fact sheet) that was published by Caring Senior Services on their website www.caringseniorservices.com and addresses fall prevention...
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Paper 2: Sample Response 11 (A View from the Bridge and Persepolis)
This Paper 2 essay uses the literary works, A View from the Bridge, by Arthur Miller and Perspolis by Marjane Sartapi to respond to the prompt, Identify some of the forms intolerance can take, and discuss...
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Paper 2: Sample Response 10 (The House of Bernarda Alba and Hedda Gabler)
Paper 2 questions and prompts will be of a general literary nature and will be informed by the seven course concepts. Identity, one of the course concepts, is frequently thematized in literary narratives,...
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Paper 2: Sample Response 9 (Paradise of the Blind and Hedda Gabler)
In the original Language and Literature course that was first taught in 2011, considerable emphasis was given to ‘context’. Following a curriculum review, the revised course, first taught in 2019, seems...