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Sample Extended Essays
As you prepare students for the Extended Essay, it is important to show them good examples. Students can find the prospect of such a long assignment daunting so seeing what the final product looks like...
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Paper 1 Practice: Poetry
Poetry is typically seen as something 'difficult', abstruse or even indecipherable. It is not unusual, for this reason, to hear SL students say that they approach Paper 1 determined not to choose a poetry...
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Paper 1 Practice: Prose fiction
In many respects, of course, working with an unseen prose text requires very much the same skills demanded by a poem. However, it may well be that certain elements come to the foreground more quickly...
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Paper 1 Practice: Prose non-fiction
Prose extracts in Paper 1 can come equally from works of non-fiction as well as fiction. Diaries, speeches, letters, travel writing, autobiography and journalism are some of the more common kinds of literary...
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Paper 1 Practice: Drama
This page provides a selection of drama extracts with guiding questions that can be used for practice. There are six sample extracts in total. In addition, the first two extracts include some additional...
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Practising Paper 1: Drama
Since the course update in 2018, Paper 1 can include extracts from any of the literary forms, whereas prior to this it consisted of only prose and poetry extracts. While drama extracts can appear, there...
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Paper 2 self-assessment checklist
Learning to develop self-awareness and a capacity to self-diagnose areas of strength and weakness is vital for independent learning to take place. When you are writing your Paper 2 essay, it is helpful...
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Paper 2: making comparisons
The previous page in this guide included questions and activities designed to get you thinking comparisons between texts, making connections in relation to specific concepts. This page has further ideas...
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Individual oral exemplar #5: Alias Grace and Szymborska
The stigmatisation of mental illness This is a strong individual oral: it has a clearly defined global issue which allows for a close and detailed exploration of two well-selected extracts. The extracts...
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Sample EE 3 (2018-):Spring Snow and A Pale View of Hills
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...