Course Assessment
HL Essay exemplar 12: Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler This HL essay is a response to the use of symbolism in relation to social hierarchy in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. While this essay could be described as 'functional' and does not have...
Assessment
Getting to know your texts: AoE 3
Getting to know your texts Ideally you have selected your three texts some time before the exam so that you have time to really explore them and develop a deeper knowledge, understanding and appreciation...
Teaching and Learning resources
A lesson on the dramatic unities
The three dramatic unities are place, time and action. These principles of drama are often attributed to Aristotle and his important treatise on drama, the Poetics, but in fact he only insisted on one...
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Paper 2: a guide for students Free
Paper 2: a guide for students A new page based on the area of exploration, intertextuality, has been added and can be found below. Further pages will be developed and added to the guide in the coming...
Teaching and Learning resources
A lesson on dramatic irony
While we can talk about dramatic irony in different literary forms, this lesson focuses on its use in plays. Most students know what dramatic irony is and find it an easy concept to grasp - the audience...
Assessment
Getting to know your texts: AoE 2
Getting to know your texts Ideally you have selected your three texts some time before the exam so that you have time to really explore them and develop a deeper knowledge, understanding and appreciation...
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Paper 2: a guide for students Free
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...
Assessment
Getting to know your texts: AoE 1
Getting to know your texts Ideally you have selected your three texts some time before the exam so that you have time to really explore them and develop a deeper knowledge, understanding and appreciation...
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Paper 2: a guide for students Free
Paper 2: a guide for students A new page based on the area of exploration, readers, writers and texts, has been added and can be found below. Further pages will be developed and added to the guide...
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How to ... write a conclusion
Writing a good conclusion is no easy task. Whereas there are certain more formulaic principles you can apply to writing an introduction, conclusions can go in a wider range of directions that make writing...