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Navigating school-supported self-taught literature
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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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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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Hello! Does the recommendation used for the oral and HL essay (to reference multiple texts in a collection to demonstrate knowledge of the work as a whole) apply to Paper 2 in the same way? Is it more acceptable or understandable to focus in on one...
11 Apr 2025
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Hi Rory.  All assessments include the Language criterion where the accuracy of a student's English is part of what is assessed, so errors such as those you describe will mean some marks lost for that criterion. If all else is good, however, a...
31 Mar 2025
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Hi! I'm wondering where IB assessors stand on the idea of "global Englishes." What I mean is, I have some very accomplished students in my IB 11 class who are not native speakers of English.  Their writing is very effective in terms of communicating...
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