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P1 HL S1 (birds)
To prepare for your Paper 1 exam, you will want to know what distinguishes a good comparative analysis from a poor comparative analysis. Both the good and poor analyses below are written in response two...
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Sex and the City
Simone de Beauvoir, the French philosopher and author of The Second Sex, said 'one is not born, but rather becomes a woman.' A person, then, learns how to 'do' what it is to 'display' what being a woman...
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WT2 Q4 (Clockwork)
The following sample written task 2 is based on the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. It answers the fourth prescribed question: Which groups are marginalized, excluded or silenced within the...
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WT2 Questions & samples Free
Higher Level students must write at least one critical response (written task 2) to a text. These responses, which in fact are essays, answer one of six prescribed quesitons from the Language A: Language...
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New Handbook Free
As some of you may be aware, the new Handbook of Procedures (HoP) came out last week. For the less-experienced teachers out there: the Handbook of Procedures is a document for administering the IB Diploma....
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WT2 Q6 (Vote Different)
This written task 2 has taken its inspiration from a lesson on mash ups and attack ads. The first text from this lesson explores an attack ad against Hillary Clinton. It is best understood in the context...
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Quote hunting Free
The written task 2 is a take-home assignment. This means that one is able to find quotes from the literary or non-literary works to support the arguments in the essay. This process of finding the right...
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Opinion column
Newspapers and magazines often have columnists who write for them. Generally speaking newspapers or magazines want there to be a cult of personality surrounding these columnists to generate good sales...
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Persepolis Free
It's back to school (see image) and hopefully everyone has read the books that we have assigned the students. I know a popular one this year is going to be Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. That is why I've...
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Evolution of the language
Where has the English language come from and where is it going? English has traveled all over the world on the back of British Imperialism and on the airwaves of MTV. Subsequently there are various Englishes,...