Hi Aziza, The student can write this kind of comparative essay, but I have a few concerns: There is a lot of reading here and the works are relatively challenging. I think I would counsel the student to study either Eliot or Bronte. If choosing...
Extended Essay (2027)Hi John, This is not an approach that I take, but you could and, with careful class management, prepare students for their various assessment tasks. You would need to ensure, too, that an approach like this ensures that all students in the class...
Literature circlesHi John, Well, available time - often the lack of it! - is something many teachers experience. Yes, you can combine the study of literary works with non-literary texts (and vice-versa; extracts from literary works can also inform the study of...
Combining the literary and non-literaryHello Tim and David, I hope you both are doing well. One of my students intends to compare a novel with poems of TS Eliot. 1) Is that doable? Prose and poetry both originally in English. 2) ...
Extended Essay (2027)Can someone further elucidate this unit type? It sounds appealing, but I'm not sure how this would play out over a unit (or units) and adequately address the assessments.
Literature circlesHi David, Are you saying that we can combine a literary work, a variety of non-literary texts (not just by one author), and non-literary body of work by one author for the IO in one unit? Forgive my lack of understanding, but I'm just...
Combining the literary and non-literaryThank you for your reply Tim!
Extended Essay (2027)Thank you, that's very helpful!
Non-literary bodies of workHi Dorothy, Please not that students could always have written a comparative essay on two literary works originally written in English. It would have been a C1 EE in the "old" classification system. One year, a student of mine wrote a...
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Hello David, Thank you for the prompt reply. The problem is that the student has studied these texts already on her own and she is passionate about her choices. I did try to dissuade her before but she is not budging. Do you think it would hamper...
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