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2013 Paper 1 (HL) The Imperial War Museum (Revisited)
This is the second in a series of responses to the May 2013 (HL) Paper 1 Comparative Commentary. Like the previous response, the student is addressing the Section A texts on the Imperial War Museum. It...
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2013 Paper 1 (HL) The Imperial War Museum (Reopened)
This is the third in a series of responses to the May 2013 (HL) Paper 1 Comparative Commentary. Teachers can find the earlier responses here and here. This third response is rather less competent than...
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2013 Paper 1 (HL) The Imperial War Museum
The following exemplar is a student response to the May 2013 Higher Level Paper 1 examination. It is one of several such comparative commentaries that the website will publish over the next few weeks....
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2016 Paper 1 (HL) Income Inequality (Part 3)
This exemplar from May 2016 is a great example for students to use in class. It is adequate in most regards and it is where many of our students begin when they enter the course. They know the basics...
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President Trump: Like? Free
Last week, the day after the US presidential election, I wrote a piece on Donald Trump’s victory. By the time I had written it, I had been confronted by a gloating, baiting student (ultimately, remaining...
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Comparative Commentaries to Go: A Study After Death
This Comparative Commentary to Go is inspired by a visit to a market and, prompted by the visit, a memory of reading an old essay republished in John Berger’s Understanding a Photograph. The market was...
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WT1 HL S5 (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich)
Students often want to write diary entries for their Written Task 1. Some are attracted to the text type because they want to be creative and explore some aspect of the text. Others want to put themselves...
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Racial profiling Free
Racial profiling is described as the use of an individual's ethnic appearance or physical characteristics to decide whether to engage in law enforcement exercises. This lesson looks at four texts, all...
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Understanding News Values
At the beginning of October 2016, it was widely reported that Kim Kardashian – Wikipedia describes Ms. Kardashian as a ‘reality television personality, socialite, businesswoman, and model’ – had been...
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What Not to Wear on Halloween!
With Halloween becoming a larger, more global holiday, now is the perfect time to discuss culture, images, stereotypes and more in our Language and Literature classroom. If we define a "text" as an image...