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WT1 SL (Reviving Gaelic)
The following written task emerges from the Part 1 study of language death (and language revival). Described by its author as an ‘opinion article’, the task discusses the possible revival of Gaelic in...
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Best Books of 2015 Free
As I catalogue my favorite reads over the last six months (July to December), I’m a bit surprised. I am a lover of fiction. I often crave an escape from this world and revel in the universe an author...
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Comparative Textual Analysis: Working With Genre
Comparative textual analysis is not easy. Certainly, doing comparative textual analysis well is not easy. It requires a lot of modeling on the part of the teacher and scaffolded activities before students...
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Speech
There are as many different kinds of speeches as there are audiences. Nevertheless, there are some traits that all speeches have in common, despite their different audiences. Before we look at these defining...
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An Open Letter to Students (about the subject reports) Free
Dear Students, I’ve recently read the IB’s Language and Literature subject report for May 2015. In 25 pages—or 11,665 words if you want me to be more precise—it details all the ways that students and...
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Comparative Textual Analysis Through Fiction and Non-fiction
KCRW’s Bookworm is a must listen to radio show for teachers of English and lovers of literature. The show's host, Michael Silverblatt, is a man who may have read more literature than any other living...
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Comparative Commentaries to Go: The Sea
This Comparative Commentary to Go brings together a contemporary media text from The Sydney Morning Herald reporting on the what it refers to as ‘a refugee crisis’. The news story reports specifically...
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ANTM-2008
For years, one of the most popular TV shows in the United States has been America's Next Top Model (ANTM). In each episode, young women receive 'challenges' to present themselves as America's next top...
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The way I am
How do we define ourselves? Rap stars love to write about their own identity, telling us regularly what to think of them and how to define who they are. How do they use language to do this? In this lesson...
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Comparative Commentaries to Go: People and Paths
This ‘comparative commentary to go’ compares one of the most canonical poems in the English language with the lyrical non-fiction of a much less well known writer. One of the texts in this pairing is...