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13 Aug 2026
Back to School (For Some)
If you are in a southern hemisphere IB school, you will, we hope, forgive the self-absorption of your colleagues in the north. For us northerners, it is back to school time. At InThinking, we haven't...
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Over our summer holidays, we metaphorically renovated the house. Our site has a new, fresh look in line with all the other InThinking subject sites. You will find we relocated a lot of our materials...
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Hi! What is the correct way to format a book title in Paper 2 for Portuguese A: Language and Literature? In quotation marks or underlined?
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I discovered Claire Keegan's novella Small Things Like These last year too. Now, I'll read it with one of my classes. I don't want to ruin the experience by watching the movie though. I'll see what happens.
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Hi Virna, I've answered in corresponding number order. 1. I have my doubts about this one. I don't think it's possible (my understanding is that it is originally in Korean). However, we aren't the IB and you can always ask...
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Site authorHi Ana Regina, My understanding is that it technically should be italicized (this holds true for English too). But, because students cannot do this when writing by hand, they should underline the novel title. For poetry and short...
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