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Reading unseen passages
Elsewhere in this section of the site is the (repeated) recommendation that skills in responding to unseen texts are improved when students learn to break down the various means through which they are...
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Reading for Style Free
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...
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Paper 1 - new non-fiction response Free
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 ...
Teaching and Learning resources
Learning to make notes: the Cornell method
One of the characteristics of students who perform highly in the course is a capacity to think independently. This means being able to make accurate judgments about what is going on in a text, coming...
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SL: Choosing the passage
The question of which extract to choose sometimes causes considerable unease on the part of students, and it is certainly an element of the paper that you will need to address. As pointed out elsewhere...
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Paper 1 - new poetry sample response Free
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...
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Paper 1: a concept-based approach
Paper 1: the importance of transfer Understanding literature at a conceptual level Some students arrive in their DP Literature class with a well-developed conceptual understanding of literature, while...
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Paper 1: a concept-based approach Free
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...
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A lesson on speeches
It is likely that during the course of your teaching, the linguistic and literary properties of speeches will be something you need to address as a matter of course. This might come into contextual research...
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HL essay - new sample response Free
In Cold Blood The new sample, and all others can be found at the page linked below. It is important for teachers and students to look at a range of examples in order to become familiar with the expectations...