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A Language for Discussing Film
The content for this post comes from my colleague Joe Jasina. He put together the definitions, the clips, the screenshots, the exemplar and more. As a Language and Literature teacher as well as a teacher...
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May 2021 Examination - Weightings Free
The IB has released the final weightings for the May 2021 exams. You can find the official document here. Because Paper 2 has been canceled, they had to revise the worth of the remaining assessment...
DP essentials
2020 EE Category 2 (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and We Have Always Lived in the Castle)
While it might look like a cute picture of cats was used as clickbait, this isn't the case. This post really is about cats! For this student's Category 2 Extended Essay, she explored the role of cats...
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HL Essay: Exemplar 4 (Szymborska Poetry)
When writing a Higher Level Essay on poetry, it's hard to determine how many poems to use. One is clearly not enough, but it would be difficult, perhaps, to write about five different poems. So what...
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Mental Health and Wellbeing: 2. The Yellow Wallpaper
In the first part of our unit of study on mental health and wellbeing, we offered an opportunity to consider the role of reading and writing in the promotion of mental health. The unit will conclude with...
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2019 EE Category 1 (N.W.A Song Lyrics)
At the time of writing (August 2020), protests over the killing of Black men by the police in the United States continues after another Black man – Jacob Blake – was shot and seriously injured in an...
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Mental Health and Wellbeing: 1. A Role for Reading and Writing?
Over the next few weeks and months – writing in August 2020 – we will create a unit of study on the topic of mental health and wellbeing. The unit takes a broad focus. We explore, for example, the representation...
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A Language for Discussing Photography
Paper 1 will contain multimodal texts. It's entirely possible that Paper 1 will contain texts that are only visual. Some of these visual texts are likely to be photographs. Where this is the case, HL...
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Important Announcement – Assessment Changes to May 2021 Exams Free
Language and Literature students will no longer sit Paper 2 in the May 2021 examinations. That assessment is out. Full stop. In August of 2020, the IB released a document titled “At a glance: the May...
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SL and HL: Similarities and Differences
We have already published PowerPoint introductions to both the course as a whole and for assessment. At times, teachers will want to highlight the key similarities and differences that exist between SL...