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Navigating school-supported self-taught literature
IB DP Category 3

Online (IB Approved), 17 - 19 October 2025
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Language A: Literature (generic)
IB DP Category 1

Online (IB Approved), 17 - 19 October 2025
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Integrating AI into DP Language A and MYP Language & literature classrooms

Virtual Think-In, 29 April 2025
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The new Interdisciplinary Extended Essay (first exams M27)

Virtual Think-In, 21 May 2025
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The new Extended Essay in DP Language A (first exams M27)

Virtual Think-In, 22 May 2025
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Rory
Paper 1 sample responses #4 and #5
Is it just me, or is the second essay on "Blaze" a better piece of student writing in just about every way? 
24 Apr 2025
Mark
Individual oral exemplar #5: Alias Grace and Szymborska
Hi Amanda.  Glad you find the site helpful!  There is a worked example of an oral, along with a transcript here....
22 Apr 2025
Amanda
Individual oral exemplar #5: Alias Grace and Szymborska
Hello and thank you for the wonderful resources! For the Literature IO samples, do you have transcripts available for any of them? Thank you!
21 Apr 2025
Mark
Paper 2: Comparative essay
Hello Liz - in short, yes. You should advise your students that bringing in reference to e.g. 3 poems/short stories would be about right - in order to demonstrate K/U of the work as a whole. Otherwise, as you note, marks in Criteiron A could be curtailed.
12 Apr 2025

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