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Tips
Although there is no one way to guarantee a 7 on the individual oral commentary, some of the following tips help to ease the nerves and keep focus on the purpose of the task....
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Artistic Expressions of Identity
This unit is designed to be completed in the first semester or term of a school year when you are just getting to know your new IB Language and Literature students. It introduces them to a few key ideas...
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WT SL (Gendered Advertising)
Law schools often force students to take an opposing position to the one they hold. They require students to understand the claims and arguments – the logic – of the opposing counsel so that they can...
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Cartoons for change
This lesson asks how humorous language can be used to change the way we look at women in society. Specifically, we will look at the cartoons of Liza Donnelly, who draws for the New Yorker, and listen...
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Comparative Commentaries to Go: Generation Me
This week we add to our collection of Comparative Commentaries to Go. We hope you will like this one, and that students find the texts both challenging and engaging. Good textual analysis involves an...
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2016 P2 HL (The Bluest Eye and Ghosts - Exemplar 3)
This is the third installment of Paper 2 posts on The Bluest Eye and Ghosts. You can find the first post here and the second post here. To support students, remember that all three exemplars use the...
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WT 1 HL (Salome)
Many, if not all, of the samples published on the site are of excellent quality. On this page, however, we publish a somewhat less successful (HL) sample. The student writes diary entries (a popular text...
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What is this thing called literature?
The following scheme of work asks students to critically consider what literature is or, put otherwise, what constitutes literature. Since the course of study is called Language and Literature, there...
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2016 P2 HL (The Bluest Eye and Ghosts - Exemplar 2)
Paper 2 is sometimes difficult for students to understand unless they have exemplars on the same two texts, using the same question, and varying just a bit in terms of quality. That is exactly what you...
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Texts to Teach
At InThinking, we recently asked a number of teachers to submit reviews of books – novels, plays, textbooks, you name it – that they have found enjoyable to teach or that have informed their teaching...