Hi Cecilia. Studying just the first one is fine as they were published as separate books. However, the two parts are published as a complete edition now and I use that version and ask students to read it all, as it is good...
PersepolisHi, I love Persepolis so I am using with this year's cohort. They are doing SL: is studying only Part 1 still acceptable for IB, or should I use the whole book? Thank you in advance.
PersepolisHi David and Mark, Thanks so much for your replies! It's clearly not completely straightforward, but what you say clarifies things and helps a lot. Best wishes, Toby
Higher Level EssayHi Toby - just to add to Dave's point, because the focus of the HL essay should ideally be an overtly literary topic, my experience is that it is better to steer students away from any significant focus on context in the actual assignment -...
Higher Level EssayHi Toby. It's a good question with no easy answer as the IB does not specify if - or how much - contextual knowledge and understanding should feature in a student's work. Of course, as one of the AoE is 'Time and Space' and one of the course...
Higher Level EssayDear David, I would be very grateful for your thoughts on a question regarding context, and its place in both the HL essay - and also in Paper 2. Some literary texts are so clearly grounded in their context that it feels essential...
Higher Level EssayYes - thank you!
Individual oral: sample extracts and outlineHi Tricia - so the 'extract' might be the complete poem (up to 40 lines) or an excerpt from it. When discussing the wider work, students should refer to other poems by the same author - perhaps 2-3, in order to demoinstrate knoweldge of the complete...
Individual oral: sample extracts and outlineI think I may have asked my question incorrectly - I meant that if a poem is 40 lines or less, do they still need an extract in this case or would the whole poem be the 'extract'? If they can use a 40 lines or less poem as their extract, then how...
Individual oral: sample extracts and outline
Cecilia
Thank you, David, I always did that for HL, so I will do the same for SL.
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