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What is a line of inquiry?
Your Higher Level Essay requires you to develop a line of inquiry. But what exactly is a line of inquiry? Loosely defined, a line of inquiry is the specific focus of your essay. It's the big idea(s)...
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Make a Change - Public Service Announcements
In the following resources and materials below, you can spend as little as one lesson, cutting anything you don't need or want to use. This page is great in that respect if you just need something for...
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Make a Change - Public Service Annoucements Free
Have you just finished a bleak and depressing novel? With the passing of Cormac McCarthy this week, I’m thinking of The Road in particular. I loved the novel, but it took me to some dark places. Do...
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The Remains of the Day: After Reading Free
Are you interested in teaching, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, The Remains of the Day? The novel won the 1989 Booker Prize, Ishiguro received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, and he is on the IB’s Prescribed...
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Lesson 8
This is a fast lesson today and one that requires an ability to shift between three different speeches. And while it may feel quick, lesson 9 and lesson 10 will come back to the speeches analyzed in...
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Lesson 9
Today's lesson introduces the final assessment and provides a model example to emulate. That model example will come from your teacher, as they demonstrate the expectations live in class. Afterwards,...
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Lesson 10
It's assessment time! Today's lesson will focus on delivering, marking, and providing feedback based on your five minute question and answer session. While it is a formative assessment, taking this...
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Lesson 11 (Optional)
This is a final (optional) lesson. If you want to add Paper 1 practice - or modified Paper 1 practice - now is a good time for it. Below is the exam paper. This can be completed as an in-class exam,...
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Greta Thunberg Speeches - Lessons 8 - 11 Free
In this week’s update, we’ve added the final four lessons to the materials and resources from Greta Thunberg’s speeches. Lesson 8 is a jigsaw of three speeches. It's a fast lesson! Lesson 9 and Lesson...
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The Remains of the Day: While Reading Free
If you teach in an IB school that has May exams, they are over for this year. Probably, that’s not escaped your attention. Well done. You made it. Maybe, now, you are beginning to look forward to some...