Course Assessment
'Seeing' the unseen
Whether it is literature, music, painting, dance, architecture, or indeed any kind of art, the response you have when you see a work for the first time is a vital part of the way you 'see' it finally....
Course Assessment
Paper 1
Paper 1, the first of two external examination papers, is called Guided Literary Analysis for both HL and SL students. In this examination students will be given two unseen passages, each from a different...
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10 steps to help you prepare for the IO
This guide is a suggested approach and is not the only way to produce a successful IO; many students will find success in approaching the task in different ways and some of these 10 steps may well overlap...
Assessment
Individual Oral: a guide for students
The Global Issues Individual Oral is a very important component of the course - in part because of the weighting attached to the assessment, but also because of the way it reflects aspects of the course's...
Getting started: Teachers
A beginner's guide
Starting to teach any new course can be a daunting experience. Whether a matter of getting used to new content or the expectation of new approaches to teaching, learning and assessment, not to mention...
Getting started: Teachers
The nature of the course Free
Coming to the IB programme for the first time can be something of a daunting experience, and it is easy to feel overwhelmed by the volume of information with which you are initially presented. Many teachers...
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Tone and Voice
The terms persona, tone or voice are sometimes used interchangeably, to say something about the way/s in which attitudes or feelings are expressed by the narrator or speaker in any piece of writing. ...
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Structure and Form
Another core aspect that you will almost certainly address has to do with the way a text is put together. Structure and form can be difficult things to analyse and interpret because there are so many...
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Metaphor
... is of course another specifically literary device that you will encounter in many different forms throughout the course. The latter part of the previous page, as stated, looked at the way in which...
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Diction and Syntax (2)
One of the ways in which you can develop your sensitivity to the meaning of individual words, as well as the way/s in which they work in conjunction with each other is to 'play' with them. Below are some...