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Belief: Why Myths Matter
The highly regarded, prize winning writer, Andrew O’Hagan is only a few months older than me. He was born in the same Scottish city. We grew up less than 20 miles apart in very similar, apocalyptically...
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Thinking Critically About Concepts, Timelessness, and Universality
To claim that anything is universal and timeless is a pretty bold claim. It is, nonetheless, a frequently heard claim (we claim). This page considers the notions of the universal and the timeless It asks...
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Solar: Getting things wrong and the power of stories
This page has two focuses: (i) The power and importance of stories in human social life and (ii) the observation that we get things wrong. The lesson involves, straightforwardly, reading and discussing,...
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Language, Gender and Experimentation
The following lesson was originally designed for use in the Theory of Knowledge (TOK) classroom. However, the lesson overlaps significantly with English: Language and Literature, and in particular Part...
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Censorship
Why do people prevent other people from advertising, campaining or expressing their opinion? In other words, 'Why do we censor?' This question raises even more questions about how we acquire information,...
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2036: A Space Odyssey
In the twenty years since 2016, the world had undergone momentous change. By 2036, it was easy to see how and why things had altered, but two decades earlier, in ‘the first year of Brexit’, the future...
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Newsworthiness
What deems a story worthy of publishing in a newspaper or posting on a website? When studying news articles in the Language and Literature course, we will want to go beyond textual analysis from time...
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Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Free
As we study a wide range of texts, we are likely to consider many critical questions that relate to the nature of knowledge, certainty, belief and truth. Such questions are relevant to the Theory of Knowledge...
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Thank you for 2021 Free
Dear Colleagues, Thank you for this year – 2021. We hope, if you are in a northern hemisphere school, you will have the opportunity over the next few weeks to rest and revitalize before returning to school...
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Best Books of the Year (June - December) Free
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead I loved The Underground Railroad and the ending of The Nickel Boys was phenomenal. When Whitehead’s new novel came out this fall, I eagerly picked it up. I wasn’t...