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Comparative Commentaries to Go: A Dog's Life
I sometimes think that funny writing should be disqualified from Paper 1 examinations. It’s not because students would laugh and disturb one another - inappropriate given the occasion. Rather, it’s because...
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Flagging the Homeland Daily Free
A recent article in The Economist (‘Drawbridges up’, July 30th 2016) highlights a key ideological tension of our contemporary world. It is a world, the article suggests, that pits openness, internationalism,...
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Gap Kids and Gender Stereotyping
In your Language and Literature course, you have the opportunity to address hot topics that are happening right now. You could even use materials that you or your students read about in the news that...
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P2 HL (City of Glass and Perfume)
The following Paper 2 response addresses question 2 from the May 2014 examination: Show some of the ways in which the writers of at least two of the works you have studied enable the reader/audience to...
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#BlackLivesMatter
When George Zimmerman was acquitted of killing of Trayvon Martin in 2013, #BlackLivesMatter began trending on Twitter. In 2014, after the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner...
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Individual Oral Commentary (HL) Death of a Naturalist
Poems are often a good choice for Part 4 texts and for the IOC. Whilst poems exist in dialogic interplay with other texts, they are in a certain sense self-contained. It is likely that a poem studied...
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Individual Oral Commentary (SL) The Great Gatsby (3)
Students are sometimes so close in achieving an overall seven on an individual assessment. That is the case with this Standard Level Individual Oral Commentary. The context for this is as such. The...
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P2 HL (Persepolis and This Earth of Mankind)
The following HL essay is a response to the May 2014 exam. The student answers question 2 in that exam: Texts originally produced in a culture or in a language different from that of the reader’s can...
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Summer Reading Recommendations Free
Looking back at my favorite reads over the last six months – January to June – I found a wide range of titles. While I’ve written the book recommendations with your students in mind, I do highly recommend...
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The Big Quiz: The Answers Free
Here, then, are the answers to our recent Big Quiz. Quite a few of you, I know, had a go, and some emailed their answers. One sagacious colleague scored a fantastic 13/20 (well done). And some others…...