Teaching and Learning resources
A lesson on imagery in poetry
While the use of imagery is not a convention that is unique to poetry, students looking at poetry need to have an awareness of its central importance in the genre, as captured in the following quotations:...
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TOK: 'truth' in literary non-fiction
What do we mean by truth and reality in literature? Below are some suggested questions to get students thinking about literary non-fiction in relation to the Theory of Knowledge course. These could be...
Course Assessment
Individual Oral practice samples
On this page you will find four samples of Individual Orals undertaken by students as practice for 'the real thing'. They have not been marked officially by the IB and the first three do not have the...
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The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried and TOK Within the text O’Brien deliberately blurs the lines between fiction and reality, telling us that certain events he describes did not happen but that they still convey...
Teaching and Learning resources
A lesson on the essay
This lesson focuses on the essay, its origins, some famous examples and some of the problems of clearly defining this (or any) genre. The essay has been described as a "puzzling literary genre"and students...
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How to ... write an introduction
Writing a good introduction is an essential feature of a strong essay but it can be challenging to do well. The introduction is important for practical reasons, e.g. where your teacher or examiner will...
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Ready for results? Free
Results 2021 In another unusual year, find below an outline of what the release of results and subsequent enquiry upon results services (EUR) mean for the two different routes schools took in May 2021. ...
Teaching and Learning resources
A lesson on the villanelle
The activity in A lesson on the poetic line asks students to think about form in relation to two free verse poems. The page ends stating that it is important students also study poets who use more traditional...
Teaching and Learning resources
A lesson on sound effects
Sound effects (or devices) are tricky things to comment on in a meaningful and insightful way; comments on alliteration, for example, can feel contrived and superficial, with the sense that students are commenting...
Teaching and Learning resources
A lesson on setting in prose fiction
The conventions regarding setting in novels and short stories have, like all conventions, evolved over time. In The Art of Fiction, David Lodge states that a "sense of place was a fairly late development...