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6th Individual Oral Free
We've published five individual orals to date. This is the sixth; subscribers can find it here. Teachers sometimes remark and subject reports seem to confirm that many individual orals are good or excellent,...
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2021 Paper 1: Sample Response 3 (Tandoori Food) Free
This week, I’ve been working on more Paper 1 samples. This is the third sample response about tandoori food from the May 2021 examination session. You can find it here. The first two, found here and...
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2021 Paper 1: Sample Response 3 (Tandoori Food)
This is the third sample response about tandoori food from the May 2021 examination session. The first two, found here and here, are excellent. This one, while not as good as the first two, is still...
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Just Speak (and Have Fun!)
Before the Individual Oral (IO) was introduced to the current Language and Literature course, students of the old course participated in an Individual Oral Commentary (IOC). Many readers will remember...
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2021 Paper 1: Sample Response 2 (Infographic) Free
I've been working on Paper 1 this week. You can find a new Paper 1 sample response that deals with the infographic from the May 2021 examination here. The first sample response that we published in...
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2021 Paper 1: Sample Response 2 (Infographic)
This is the second sample response that deals with the infographic from the May 2021 examination. The first sample response can be found here. Unfortunately, we can’t reprint the actual exam. However,...
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Political Cartoons
The specific resources and lesson ideas come from a blog post in the New York Times titled “Drawing for Change.” There is also an excellent video about the making of a political cartoon that is worth...
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5th Individual Oral Free
We’ve published a 5th Individual Oral today. You can find it here. This is the last IO we are planning to publish from the May 2021 exam cycle. With these five exemplars, you have a wide variety of...
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4th Individual Oral Free
This week, I've been working on creating more resources for the Individual Oral. It is the fourth one we have published from the previous exam cycle and you can find it linked here. On the site, you...
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2021 Individual Oral: Exemplar 4 (The Underground Railroad and Liza Donnelly Cartoons)
InThinking has published two excellent Individual Oral exemplars under the 2021 Individual Orals heading. We have also published another exemplar, a solid student example to use in your classroom. This...