Course Assessment
HL essay exemplar 1: Wuthering Heights
This HL Essay exemplar is focused on the concept of perspective in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, exploring the two main narrators and how Brontë uses their naive perceptions and interpretations to...
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Paper 2 - new sample response Free
After two years with no paper 2, it is now back for our current first year DP students and so we will be adding more materials for this assessment in the coming months Linked from this page are some paper...
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A lesson on the physicality of language
The lesson below is designed to encourage sensitivity to the idea that language can carry physical weight in a way that enacts meaning as much as 'tell' it - in the same sort of way as a piece of music...
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New feature: paper 1 revision pages Free
Student Paper 1 revision pages With no Paper 2 again this year, students have just the one examination to prepare for in Language A courses, an examination that they need to prepare very well for as it...
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Teaching close reading
Most of us will have memories of being read to aloud when we were young, and it is perhaps a shame that this practice tends to stop when we get older. Reading texts of any kind out loud can yield all...
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Responses to drama
Paper 1 responses to drama While students often think of poetry - particularly unseen poetry - as something that is 'difficult' or challenging to understand, many drama texts can seem 'easier' to read...
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A lesson on the sonnet
"The sonnet's fourteen lines have called to poets for almost a thousand years. It is the Goldilocks form: when others seem too long, too short, too intricate, too shapeless, too heavy, too light, too...
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The pastiche
A motif that recurs throughout this site concerns the value of encouraging students to write creatively, in part because of its inherent value, but also - in a more pragmatic sense - because it can work...
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May 2021 exam report Free
You may well have already seen the exam report from the IB, published a few days ago on MyIB. It contains a lot of useful information and casts light on some of the questions you may have had either before...
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Structuring the oral
Organising the Individual Oral Presentation is no easy task. There are many factors to bear in mind and many decisions to make in order for the assessment to score as highly as possible. Students might...