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Paper 2: Sample Response 8 (Harvest and No Exit) Free
In this week’s post, you can find a new Paper 2 exemplar here. What’s interesting about this one is that the student still does quite well using an A, A, B, B structure. It goes to show there isn’t...
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Comparing and Contrasting in Paper 2 - Extension
Paper 2 asks students to compare and contrast two of the literary works they have studied. This is a page of extension opportunities, building from this page, where students have the opportunity to practice...
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Comparing and Contrasting in Paper 2
Paper 2 asks students to compare and contrast two of the literary works they have studied. Comparing and contrasting seems to be something we do intuitively, and is probably an evolved human behaviour...
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How to Help - Analyzing Medical Infographics (with a body of work) Free
What text types will appear on the May 2023 Paper 1 exam? We have no idea! But we do know what’s happened in the past. There was an infographic on the May 2021 (Timezone 2) and November 2021 exam. ...
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Using Supporting Quotations in Paper 2
This page, and the activities it includes, encourages students to think critically about and better use quotations in writing Paper 2 essays. An immediate observation may be to point out that students...
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Analyzing Apologies
Working with delightful and quirky non-literary texts prepares students well for Paper 1. While the following short texts on this page are from February 2018, the work students will do with them is timeless. ...
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Analyzing Apologies Free
Not everything we do in a Language and Literature class has to be tied to non-literary bodies of work. In fact, there are many times when explicitly not teaching a body of work should be the goal. One...
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In Celebration of Podcasts Free
Once, in Lerwick on the Shetland Islands, there lived a man called Peerie Willie Johnson. ‘Peerie’, in Scots, means small or slight, but Peerie Willie was not insignificant. Peerie Willie became a celebrated...
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More about the Learner Portfolio
Do you need a bit more information about the Learner Portfolio? Is it still not clear what you can do in it? It's always a good idea to first ask your teacher! They will have specific requirements...
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Getting Started: Students Free
In this week’s update, we’ve added a new top-level heading titled “Getting Started: Students.” This is the one place on the site dedicated entirely to students. “The course” gives them a brief outline...