Course Assessment
Individual Oral: further advice
The Internal Assessment individual oral is clearly a challenging task. Students are asked to fulfil a number of objectives that bring together different ways of thinking about, as well as responding to,...
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Paper 1 sample responses Free
Sample paper 1 responsesFor those schools taking the examination route in May 2021, the Paper 1 examination is happening on Monday May 10th. We also know that for those taking examinations in 2022, Paper...
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Practising Paper 1: 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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Practising Paper 1: Prose non-fiction
As on the old course, 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...
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A thinking sequence
When it comes to Paper 1, many teachers provide students with different kinds of 'advice' sheets, each designed to present them with some kind of structural or procedural architecture, which can be learned...
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Revising Set Texts through Characters
Revising set texts with a focus on characters and characterization As exams approach, the knowledge that we have limited lesson time remaining with our classes is often accompanied by that nagging feeling...
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A lesson on comedy
Many of the plays studied at IB defy simple categorization as either tragedy or comedy but it is important students are aware of these genres as they represent both the origins and the two extremes of...
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A lesson on tragedy
Many of the plays studied on the course defy simple categorization as either tragedy or comedy but it is important that students are aware of these genres as they represent both the origins and the two...
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A lesson on characters in novels
Many novelists create such rich and engaging characters that it is easy for us to think of them as real. After all, most of us read novels as a form of escapism and sometimes the characters we find...
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A lesson on character in drama
“We're actors — we're the opposite of people!” Rosencrantz and Guidenstern Are Dead We encounter characters in drama very differently to how we encounter them in novels or short stories. If reading a...