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Paper 1 in DP Language A: Language & Literature and Literature
Virtual Think-In, 22 May 2024
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Paper 2 in DP Language A: Language & Literature and Literature
Virtual Think-In, 23 May 2024
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The HL essay in DP Language A: Language & Literature and Literature
Virtual Think-In, 29 May 2024
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The Individual Oral in DP Language A: Language & Literature and Literature
Virtual Think-In, 5 June 2024
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The Extended Essay in DP Language A
Virtual Think-In, 13 June 2024
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- Hi Beverly,The IB doesn't give explicit instructions here. Our advice - and it is a bit context dependent - is that about 1 total page is sufficient for the "extract." Why 1 page (or less)? The student really has a very limited...
- Hi Tim,I have a few students who are interested in using a graphic novel for their individual orals. Kindly guide me on how to choose an excerpt from Persepolis or Maus. I am not sure if it should be a page or more.
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