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The Awakening: Before Reading Free
This week, we are introducing materials for teaching and studying Kate Chopin’s short novel, The Awakening (1899). In the coming weeks we will present more materials – more materials than we anticipate...
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May 2024 Paper 1 Exemplar Free
This week – and for the next several months – we will be updating the site with exemplars from the May 2024 examination session. We are starting with Paper 1, but we will also be adding Paper 2 exemplars...
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2024 Paper 1: Sample Response 1 (ChatGPT)
The May 2024 Paper 1 examination – one of two different Paper 1 examinations in different time zones – included an “opinion article” that “was published in UX Collective, an online newsletter and blog.” ...
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May 2024 Paper 1s
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Paper 1 Practice Exam: Infographic
Below, you will find a Paper 1 practice exam. It is an infographic (a fact sheet) that was published by Caring Senior Services on their website www.caringseniorservices.com and addresses fall prevention...
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Paper 2: Sample Response 11 (A View from the Bridge and Persepolis)
This Paper 2 essay uses the literary works, A View from the Bridge, by Arthur Miller and Perspolis by Marjane Sartapi to respond to the prompt, Identify some of the forms intolerance can take, and discuss...
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Paper 2: Sample Response 10 (The House of Bernarda Alba and Hedda Gabler)
Paper 2 questions and prompts will be of a general literary nature and will be informed by the seven course concepts. Identity, one of the course concepts, is frequently thematized in literary narratives,...
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Paper 2: Sample Response 9 (Paradise of the Blind and Hedda Gabler)
In the original Language and Literature course that was first taught in 2011, considerable emphasis was given to ‘context’. Following a curriculum review, the revised course, first taught in 2019, seems...
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Paper 2: Sample Response 8 (Harvest and No Exit)
Part of supporting students with their preparation for Paper 2 (the first iteration occurring in May 2023) is to show them model examples or exemplars. But Paper 2 is hard in this respect because so...
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Paper 2: Sample Response 7 (The Awakening and The World's Wife)
Over the last few weeks, (writing in July 2022), we have published two strong Paper 2 responses (subscribers can find these here and here). This week, we have published an essay that is much less good....