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EE Category 3 (Breaking Bad)
I have a teenage son. He has watched the television drama Breaking Bad over and over. My hope is that his obsession is not linked to an unhealthy extra-curricular interest in chemistry, or a desire to...
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EE Category 3 (The Language of Self-Help)
Not all Extended Essays will be as pleasurable to read as the Breaking Bad example on the site. That is to be expected. We work with students of varying abilities with varying interests in the English...
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EE C1 S1 (Disgrace)
The following essay was inspired by two literary works: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee and The Quiet Violence of Dreams by K. Sello Duiker, both of which the student had not read in class as part of her classwork...
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EE C2 S1 (Chaucer)
The following Extended Essay compares and contrasts Giovani Boccaccio's version of Griselda's Tale from the Decameron with Geoffrey Chaucer's version of Griselda's Tale from the Canterbury Tales. Taking...
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EE Category 1 (Lewis Carroll)
This Extended Essay is a Group 1, Category 1 Extended Essay. Unlike previous Category 1 essays published on the site, this essay is comparative, comparing and contrasting Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures...
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EE Category 1 (Oryx and Crake)
Have you ever noticed the way in which, presented with the writing of a peer, students can become the most amazing critics? They can readily identify all the mistakes and errors of another (including...
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EE - Studies in Language - Sample 1
For the first time, in 2013, students were able to submit a Group 1 Extended Essay (EE) in ‘Studies in Language’. The Group 1 essays, now, are sub-divided into 3 categories as follows: Notice that there...
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EE Category 1 (The House of Blue Mangoes)
This Extended Essay is a Group 1, Category 1 Extended Essay. That is, it is the study of a literary work – in this instance David Davidar’s debut novel The House of Blue Mangoes – originally written in...
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EE Category 1 (Great Expectations)
This Extended Essay is a Group 1, Category 1 Extended Essay. That is, it is the study of a literary work – in this instance Charles Dickens’ widely known and highly regarded novel Great Expectations –...
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EE Category 1 (The Virgin Suicides)
This Extended Essay is a Group 1, Category 1 Extended Essay. That is, it is the study of a literary work – in this instance Jeffrey Eugenides’ 1993 novel The Virgin Suicides – originally written in the...