Resources
2015 Paper 1 (HL) Surveillance
The following Paper 1 is a response to the May 2015 (HL) examination, in which the student responds to two texts, a weblog post on Lifehacker.com, and song lyrics written by Jill Scott. The texts take...
Blog
Best Books of 2017 Free
I’m increasingly coming around to the opinion that when the stress of lesson planning, grading, and IB deadlines pile up, instead of worrying about it all, I should just read more. It calms me. It’s...
Resources
Generation Z: #memyselfieandi
We have arrived at Generation Z. It is this so-called iGeneration that we currently teach. For them, familiarity with the Internet and social media started from a young age. They grew up in the early...
Resources
Bias
Bias refers to language that supports an ideological position, either explicitly or implicitly. When we see subjectivity in pieces of writing that should be objective, we can claim that they are biased....
Resources
2017 Paper 1 (HL) - Wealth and Happiness (Part 2)
The following exemplar is a student response to the May 2017 Higher Level Paper 1 examination. It compliments an earlier post about these texts with the goal of providing a range of student writing on...
Resources
Travel and Nature Writing
Travel writing is not dead. Writers from the past such as Joseph Conrad, Evelyn Waugh and Claude Lévi-Strauss said it was. It was even suggested that travel itself was dead. Not true. It has been claimed...
Resources
2017 Paper 1 (HL) - Wealth and Happiness
This Higher Level Paper 1 exemplar, from May 2017, is the first in a series of three posts. The comparative commentary is based on Text C and Text D from that exam year. While InThinking cannot publish...
/post-35/presidential-election-1336480_640.png)
Resources
Political Attack Advertisements
Like them or not, political attack advertisements are all around us. We see them in referendums of all sorts, including debates about Brexit. Of course, they are most ubiquitous in elections, and the...
Resources
How to Help - The Language of Medical Emergencies
In a recent job posting for a senior account assistant, an applicant needed to be able to "handle ACCPAC accounting system"; "carry out all other AP/AR related functions"; and "assist ERP project data...
Resources
Comparative Commentaries to Go: Fit to Lead?
It’s funny how things coalesce, isn’t it? Or maybe, they don’t coalesce at all. Maybe we just join the dots in patterns that suit our purpose. It started, then, with, I thought, some good news: Kazuo...