Paper 2: a guide for students
After two years with no paper 2 due to the pandemic, it is now back for current second year DP students. To help prepare students - and teachers - for the return of this examination in 2023, we have...
Paper 2: making comparisons
A new page about comparing texts has been added and can be found below. The other pages can be found from the guide home page, also linked below. Further pages will be developed and added to the guide...
Paper 2: a guide for students
Paper 2: a guide for students After two years with no paper 2 due to the pandemic, it is now back for current first year DP students. To help prepare students - and teachers - for the return of this...
Paper 1 revision: a poem
As the May examinations are upon us and the English exam comes in a few days, we have added another student revision page for Paper 1. Like the last one, this revision page is focused on one paper 1...
Paper 1 - new drama response
New HL Paper 1 drama response The inclusion of drama texts on Paper 1 is a recent development in the latest iteration of the course so there are not as many past paper examples of such extracts as the...
Paper 1 revision: prose fiction extract
As the examinations fast approach, this week we have added another student revision page for Paper 1. This revision page takes a different form to the previous ones as it is focused on one paper 1 style...
Reading for Style
Reading for Style As the Fellini quotation above points out, how something is written (or painted, or composed, or filmed) is of central importance and can be seen as the uniting force in a text. Indeed...
Paper 1 - new non-fiction response
New HL Paper 1 non-fiction response The new sample, and all others can be found at the page linked below, where responses are organised by literary form. This sample, number 17, can be found in the ...
Paper 1 - new poetry sample response
New HL Paper 1 response The new sample, and all others can be found at the page linked below, where responses are organised by literary form. This sample, number 16, can be found in the Responses to...
Paper 1: a concept-based approach
Paper 1: the importance of transfer The idea behind concept-based teaching and learning is to identify and work with big ideas that underpin a subject and which can provide a framework of understanding...