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Advertising
Advertising is all around us: in film, television, the internet, the high street, magazines and in video games. Visual images are used constantly by advertisers to influence consumers. The unit develops students'...
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Making the News!
Our students are surrounded and bombarded by various forms of media and it is vitally important that they develop analytical and critical skills to enable them to judge what is true, what is misleading...
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Save our Planet
In this unit, we explore the important global theme of 'saving our planet' through engaging with a range of literary and non-literary texts including novels, poems, articles and short films. Through the...
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Aesthetics
In this unit, we explore ekphrasis—writing inspired by art. Poets have used art as inspiration for centuries. John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is one famous example, but even ancient poets such as......
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Formative Writing - Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull
Model answer: In the poem "Lines Inscribed on a Cup formed from a Skull," the speaker reflects on the transience and fragility of life, as symbolized by the cup made from a skull. The cup, once a part...
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Text to Go: Extract from 'If This is a Man' by Primo Levi
Primo Levi (1919-1987) was an Italian-Jewish chemist and writer. In 1943 he was arrested for being a partisan in the Italian resistance and was deported to Auschwitz. On this page you can read an extract...
Teaching Units
Text to Go: Extract from 'If This is a Man' by Primo Levi
Primo Levi (1919-1987) was an Italian-Jewish chemist and writer. In 1943 he was arrested for being a partisan in the Italian resistance and was deported to Auschwitz. On this page you can read an extract...
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Introducing the new InThinking L&L site
We kick off the How-To video series with an introduction to the new MYP Language & Literature website. ...