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Possible Individual Oral Outlines Free
This week, I’ve developed 7 different outlines for the Individual Oral. You can find them here. They are meant to be used to support students in their thinking and planning. Remember, the IO shouldn’t...
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George Monbiot's Apocalypse Cow (Part of a Body of Work) Free
Continuing our George Monbiot season, we have developed a number of activities on his documentry film, Apocalypse Cow: How Meat Killed the Planet. Containing hours of clasroom activites, the page tackles...
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WT2 Q3 (Women's Health)
This Written Task 2, Critical Response, uses question 3 – How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? – as the prompt to discuss a magazine cover from a 2012 South African edition of...
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Representations of Women in Cartoons (A Body of Work) Free
For this week's update, I've created a body of work using a single cartoonist: Liza Donnelly. All of the chosen cartoons center around the representation of women. Donnelly is such an active and prevelant...
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2019 Paper 1 (SL) - Spending Time, Not Money
This is the final Paper 1 InThinking will provide for the "old" exam. All together, there are 52 samples on the site for the course ending in May (or November) of 2020. In other words, students have...
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2019 Paper 1 (SL) - Smartphones
Text 1 of the 2019 Paper 1 Standard Level exam is "adapted from a comic strip by Gabby Schultz" from July 11th, 2013. You can find a link to the comic strip here, but do note that the penultimate panel...
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Why Does the World Seem So Peaceful?
Here is a question: Why is there so much peace in the world? You may think that the question is an unusual one, and you may even be mildly (or not so mildly) offended by it. After all, you may counter,...
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Best Books of 2019 Free
Before I share some of my favorite books I read in the last six months, I want to briefly thank all of you for your feedback, comments, and questions about the new course. Embarking on this new course...
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IB Updates Free
In October of 2019, the IB released an update to their guide for this course (just as a heads up, the copyright page reads August 2019). And in November of 2019, the IB published a Frequently Asked Questions...
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2019 Paper 1 (HL) - Running
With less than a year to go for the “old” course (for May exams), InThinking has decided to continue to support these students with a final set of Paper 1 exemplars (two more Standard Level exemplars...