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2014 Paper 1 (SL) Return to The Cagle Post
The following response comments on the first SL text from the November 2014 examination, an online text from Daryl Cagle’s The Cagle Post, published in August 2012. Cagle is a celebrated American cartoonist....
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2014 Paper 1 (SL) The Cagle Post
The following response comments on the first SL text from the November 2014 examination, an online text from Daryl Cagle’s The Cagle Post, published in August 2012. Cagle is a celebrated American cartoonist....
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2014 Paper 1 (HL) Fatherhood (Part 3)
The third in a series of posts, this exemplar falls right in between the two earlier comparative commentaries. The excellent exemplar, posted here, will help students understand the sophisticated thinking...
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2014 Paper 1 (HL) Fatherhood (Part 2)
The following exemplar is a student response to the May 2014 Higher Level Paper 1 examination. It compliments an earlier post about these texts with the goal of providing a range of student writing on...
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2014 Paper 1 (HL) Fatherhood
A number of teachers subscribing to this website write to ask for a range of exemplars – good and less successful – to use in the classroom with their students. This commentary is not particularly strong,...
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2013 Paper 1 (SL) More Crisis at Christmas
This is a further response to the May 2013 (SL) Paper 1, Textual Analysis examination. Teachers can find three earlier responses here. This fourth response is rather less competent than the earlier examples,...
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2013 Paper 1 (SL) Crisis at Christmas
The May 2013 English A: Language and Literature exam was the first of its kind. At Standard Level, Paper 1 comprised of an appeal, appearing in The Guardian newspaper, and (alternatively) an extract from...
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2013 Paper 1 (HL) The Reluctant Fundamentalist versus Robin Cook
This Paper 1 Comparative Commentary was written by a student sitting the May 2013 examination. The student chose to comment on texts 3 and 4, where text 3 is an extract from the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist,...
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2013 Paper 1 (HL) The Reluctant Fundamentalist Versus Robin Cook Revisted (Part 3)
This is the third in a series of Paper 1 samples that are to be used in conjunction with each other. You can find the excellent sample here and the satisfactory sample here. Use them in class or download...
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2013 Paper 1 (HL) The Reluctant Fundamentalist Versus Robin Cook Revisted
Excellent exemplars benefit students enormously; exemplars of dubious quality can also have a positive effect though. Discussing what the candidate did not do - especially because it does not come from...