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The Great Gatsby Chapter 3
After reading Chapter 3, use the questions and activities below to explore how the novel develops in this chapter. Gatsby's Parties The extract this activity focuses on is the opening to Chapter 3 where...
Course Assessment
Global Issues #1
The final Individual Oral is a complex and challenging task so students need focused and scaffolded practice on the different elements of what they are asked to do in this assessment. A central part of...
Course Assessment
Sample response #17 (May 2025)
The response below displays a wide range of positive elements. Apart from being well written, it provides helpful illustration of the way evidence for claims can come from things other than direct quotation....
DP essentials
Extended Essay (2027): Subject-focused essays
This page outlines the key considerations for teachers and students when undertaking an extended essay in English A, as well as how to construct a well-focused research question. The page concludes with...
DP essentials
Extended Essay (2027): Marking Criteria
The following rubric will be applied in the assessment of Extended Essays (EEs), with the first submission in May 2027. The essay is marked out of 30 across five criteria: Framework of the Essay; Knowledge...
DP essentials
Extended Essay (2027): subject specifics
This page accompanies the general overview page, Extended Essay (2027), and outlines the subject-specific guidance for the extended essay for first submission in May 2027. While the essentials of writing...
Teaching and Learning resources
Introductions: Paper 1
Writing an introduction for a Paper 1 Guided Literary Analysis is perhaps one of the more manageable kinds to put together. Whilst there is no absolute formula, making sure the following three core elements...
Course Assessment
2023 Sample response 1 - HL
Although not without some minor flaws, this is a strong response to both passages in the May 2023 Paper. The student has responded thoughtfully and capably to some key aspects of both content and style,...
Course Assessment
May 2025 sample responses
The two Higher Level answers below were written in response to the Time Zone 2 May 2025 paper. One is obviously stronger than the other, and hopefully therefore of use as a means to diagonse areas of...
Course Assessment
2025 Sample response 2 - HL
This is a stronger response to the passages, but there are elements that students can identify as needing improvement. Whilst understanding is mostly accurate and there is sensitivity on display to literary...