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IB Approved Workshops
Language A: Literature (generic)
IB DP Category 2

Barcelona, Spain, 14 - 16 February 2025
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Navigating school-supported self-taught literature
IB DP Category 3

Online (IB Approved), 21 - 23 March 2025
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Navigating school-supported self-taught literature
IB DP Category 3

Online (IB Approved), 17 - 19 October 2025
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Virtual Think-Ins
Paper 1 in DP Language A: Language & Literature and Literature

Virtual Think-In, 27 January 2025
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Paper 2 in DP Language A: Language & Literature and Literature

Virtual Think-In, 29 January 2025
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The Individual Oral in DP Language A: Language & Literature and Literature

Virtual Think-In, 11 February 2025
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Niamh
Overview of the course
Hello, Please could you let me know when the site will be updated to reflect the recent changes for students starting in 2024? I know that there is a blog post but can't find anything more official beyond this. I would also like to see a complete...
5 Jan 2025
Serkan
Individual Oral: a guide for students
Much appreciated thanks a lot David!
18 Dec 2024
David
Individual Oral: a guide for students
Hi Serkan 1. Yes they can choose two poems as long as one is translated and one is in the original language. In terms of length, the 40 lines is just a guideline so it is fine if it is shorter than that  - see out note above, under the...
17 Dec 2024
David
May 2023 review
Hi Anne.  We covered the changes in this post here:  https://thinkib.net/englishalit/blog/58045/changes-to-the-course-2024 Hopefully...
17 Dec 2024
Anne
May 2023 review
I read an update in the IB webpage stating that they were going to decrease the number of texts for both SL and HL for the group that graduates in 2026.  I have yet to find more concrete information as to what the text reduction is going to be....
17 Dec 2024
Serkan
Individual Oral: a guide for students
Hi, I have a couple of questions related to the IO 1. Related to the works to be chosen, can my students choose two poems for their Individual Oral? (one translated one in the original language) Moreover, if the chosen poem is less than 40 lines,...
17 Dec 2024
David
Individual oral exemplar #5: Alias Grace and Szymborska
Hi Branka.  It does not have to be exactly 40 lines long - that is a guideline.  I think shorter is fine, as long as there is enough for a student to explore; much longer would give the student too much to deal with in the time constraints. 
9 Dec 2024
Branka
Individual oral exemplar #5: Alias Grace and Szymborska
An urgent question: If one of the extracts is a poetry work, should we insist that it is 40 lines long or it can be a whole poem no matter how long it is?
9 Dec 2024
Helen
Paper 2 sample response #6: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
Thanks for clarifying. It seems complicated to write about various poems by two different authors. I would probably steer them away from poetry on Paper 2.
7 Dec 2024
David
Individual Oral practice samples
Hi Lisa. we have 6 exemplars on the site- have you found these: https://thinkib.net/englishalit/page/43071/individual-oral-exemplars We...
6 Dec 2024
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