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Approaching Exams: An Open Letter to Students Free
Dear Students, Rites of passage, including coming of age, often involve elaborate and sometimes painful rituals. From around the world, some of these transition to adulthood ceremonies involve wearing...
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Integrating quotes
Paper 1 assesses ones ability to integrate relevant examples into the commentary (Criterion A). What does it mean for an analysis to be "supported by well-chosen examples?" How do you integrate quotes...
Assessment
Preparing for Paper 1: The Orator - 21 Questions
On the 21st of January 2009, I drove my car into my yard, and parked it just outside my house. Typical for northern Sweden in January, it was cold and snowy outside, and so I left my car engine running...
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Part 1 - Post-Truth, Alternative Facts, and Fake News
How do IB Language and Literature teachers respond to fake news, alternative facts, and a supposedly post-truth landscape? We continue to do what we have always done: help students navigate the world...
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May and November 2022 Exams - Important Announcement – No Paper 2! Free
The IB recently sent an email to all IB Coordinators. In it, they said this (among other things): "Due to the continued loss of instructional time which will also have impacted these students, we have...
Assessment
Stages of Support
InThinking has published a page for students to support them in the process of creating an Individual Oral. If students go through that process, it is also incredibly important for us at InThinking to...
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Site Reorganization Free
As 2020 comes to a close, so too ends the first iteration of the Language and Literature course. With that in mind, we’ve reorganized the site. Please note that nothing of substance has been lost! ...
The course
Concepts Free
One of the defining features of the Language and Literature course - first exams in May 2021 - is the explicit inclusion of seven defining concepts. Those seven concepts are: Identity Culture Creativity...
The course
Areas of exploration Free
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Best Books of 2020 (July - December) Free
As 2020 comes to a close, I wanted to share some recent reads with you. In the past six months, I’ve enjoyed a pretty wide variety of books: nonfiction about race, poker, tennis, and a serial killer;...