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Undocumented worker or illegal immigrant - The language of immigration
In the spring and summer of 2018, the Trump administration in the United States faced an enormous public outcry after reports emerged about their family separation policy at the U.S. – Mexico border. ...
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Strategies for Critical Thinking: A Plurality of Readings
In the course of your teaching, you may have noticed that asking students to ‘think harder’ or ‘think critically’ doesn’t work. Students need to be given tools and strategies that enable them to think...
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Intertextualty: Introductory Activities
Daisy Christodoulou, in her polemical 2013 book, Seven Myths about Education, takes issue with Steve Wheeler, a professor of education at the University of Plymouth in England. She challenges, in particular,...
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2017 Paper 1 (SL) Justice Hub (Part 3)
Students often struggle to understand the difference between adequate, good, very good and excellent in the assessment criteria we use. We can explain the difference and we can talk about what makes...
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Read This! Some Information About the Language and Literature Curriculum Changes Free
It’s our hope here at InThinking that you love teaching IB Language and Literature as much as we do. We think it’s a sexy course to teach! Students grapple with all types of texts, in all kinds of contexts,...
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Language and power
One of the suggested topics from the Language A: Language and Literature guide is 'language and power'. This is a very broad topic and may cover other topics as well. One of the many uses of language...
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2018 Paper 1 (HL) Bees
Two weeks ago (in June 2018), we published an HL Paper 1 response to texts A and B. These texts were both about a significant global issue – robots and artificial intelligence. The response is available...
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2017 Paper 1 (SL) Justice Hub (Part 2)
This is the second post from the Standard Level May 2017 Paper 1 examination. You can find the text here (as seen online and not in the exact exam format). For the actual exam paper, you will need to...
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2018 Paper 1 (HL) Robots
In January this year (2018) a new kind of shop opened in Seattle. Amazon Go’s ‘just walk out’ convenience store made it possible for customers to walk in, scan their phones, pick up goods, and walk out,...
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Summer Reading Recommendations Free
I start summer vacation at 11:59 am tomorrow. I’m obviously looking forward to it! I'm also looking forward to all the time I will have to read. And with a long flight to the U.S. coming up – I live...