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The Representation of Masculinity
Exploring the representation of masculinity is rife with possibilities in your Language and Literature class. And important work too. The young men (and women) you teach are bombarded with messages...
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Further Update: Changes to Paper 2 for May 2026 Exams and Beyond Free
A few weeks ago, we alerted you to the upcoming changes to Paper 2 marking criteria. Please see this post. There are a few things that we would like to restate, and we have a few additional points to...
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The Representation of Masculinity Free
A while ago, a teacher on the site asked if we could create some resources about the representation of masculinity. It was an interesting request and an important one. It took some time, and some careful...
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Word of Mouth (A Body of Work): (iv) The Language of Comics Free
How do you define what a comic is? Can the comic form have any educational value? Do comics and graphic novels have grammars, and if they do, what is that grammar or those grammars? Is there cross-cultural...
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Changes to Paper 2 for May 2026 Exams and Beyond Free
The IB has made a clear change to the Paper 2 assessment criteria. This change will take effect for first teaching in September of 2024 with first exams in May of 2026. What you need to do: For the...
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The Language of Migration - Australian Edition Free
This week’s post deals with an explosive report from The Guardian from 7 years ago titled “The Nauru Files.” The post asks students to explore how the news media, as well as social media, use language...
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The Language of Migration - Australian Edition
In August 2016, the Guardian Australia published a a damning investigative article titled “The Nauru Files." The journalists chronicled significant human rights abuses of asylum seekers on the island...
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Word of Mouth (A Body of Work): (iii) Communicating Climate Change Free
The following page – the third in a non-literary body of work for the podcast, Word of Mouth, provides the opportunity to focus on language and, in particular, the English Language. We hope that you and...
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Responses to Terrorism Free
How do we respond to acts of terror? How do we use language and images to process our grief, anger, sadness, and other emotions? This week’s update - found here for subscribers - attempts to answer (in...
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Responses to Terrorism
On May 22nd, 2017, a man detonated a homemade suicide bomb at the end of a concert given by Ariana Grande in the city of Manchester, England. This act of terror killed twenty-three children and adults. ...