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Fun Home Study Guide
This week we have added further to our Study Guide for Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, with pages now on chapters 1 to 5. These pages can be used by teachers to support teaching of the text and/or by students...
The Great Gatsby Study Guide
This week we have published a Study Guide for The Great Gatsby, with chapter by chapter pages that can be used by teachers to support teaching of the text and/or by students as they read and/or revise...
Course review
As you know, all IB courses go through a cycle and every 7-8 years or so, revisions (more or less radical) take place. Group 1 courses are all currently being reviewed and you can read about the outcomes...
Subject report 2025
If your department has not already done so, it is worth spending time processessing feedback from the 2025 Subject Report. As you will know, we have three time zones which means that there are some differences...
Beautiful
This week we have added a new page to our unit of study on Carol Ann Duffy's poetry, this one focused on the poem 'Beautiful' from Duffy's 2002 collection Feminine Gospels. We will continue to add further...
Sample EE on Ishiguro and Mishima
This essay is a comparison of how the conflict between western ideas and traditional Japanese values is presented in A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro and Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima . The essay...
Paper 2 sample response (May 2024)
HL Paper 2 response using Othello and A Streetcar Named DesireThis week we have published another sample Paper 2 response to one of the questions on the May 2024 TZ2 examination. The student uses Othello by...
Paper 2 sample response (2024)
HL Paper 2 response using Antigone by Sophocles and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk. The response is well balanced between the two text and uses relevant aspects of each...
Paper 2 sample response (2024)
HL Paper 2 response using Othello and The Remains of the DayThis week we have published a sample Paper 2 response to one of the questions on the May 2024 TZ2 examination. The student uses Othello by Shakespeare...
Changes to the course 2024
The IB have now published a document which summarises the changes made to the Language A courses, including some FAQs for teachers. The summary document can be found on My IB in the Programme Resource...