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From IB Learner Profile to Written Task
Most of us will probably subscribe to the values and traits of the IB Learner Profile. However, it may be a little difficult – not least if you are new to teaching the IB Diploma – to know how to embed...
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Truth, Lies, and Politics (2016 U.S. Presidential Debate)
Given the intense media scrutiny of the United States presidential election, it seems pertinent that InThinking provides resources and materials to help you and your students make sense of it all. September...
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Gender Inequality in Technology - A Further Oral Activity Role-Play Script
One of the great joys of the Language and Literature course is the flexibility we have in what we teach. There is so much variety and possibility in our subject area. The news media churns out stories...
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Language and Nature Free
I had an uncanny experience. It is many years since – this was the late 1990s – and the detail has become a little muddled. The essence of the story is this: I was sitting at home alone early on a Friday...
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WT1 SL S4 (Annie Dillard)
Many students like to write blogs as their Written Task. For some of them, it is their go to text type. They know it. They are comfortable with it. Occasionally, they might not even be considering what...
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Make a Change - Public Service Announcements
At the March 2015 EARCOS (East Asia Regional Council of Schools) conference, one of the presenters, Stevi Quate, talked about how to create units of study in middle and secondary English classes. She...
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WT1 HL S4 (Gender Stereotyping)
The following Written Task comes from Part 2 of the course titled Language and Mass Communication. It addresses the learning outcome "examine different forms of communication within the media" using the...
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Do You Speak Emoji?
Emoji! They are everywhere. Hardly a day goes by without our students communicating via this form. Because of their ubiquity, a larger question lingers for Language and Literature students: how is language...
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WT1 HL S3 (Things Fall Apart)
The following Written Task is taken from Part 4. The student envisions a scene between Okonkwo and his father early in the novel Things Fall Apart. In fact, the student embeds the actual text from the...
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Just the Facts - Media and Ethics
In July of 2015, both Gawker and reddit made headlines about their ethical and journalistic code of conduct. If you are not familiar with either, Gawker is a blog about the entertainment and media industry...