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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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- Thank you for the response Tim, another question.. is Chronicle of a Death Foretold classified as a novel? Do you know how the IB distinguishes between novellas and novels?Best,Michael
- Hi Silke,Music videos could be considered a non-literary body of work. Music videos, as texts, should be considered through all their semiotic modes, including lyrics. It is only when you consider song lyrics in isolation that the text type...
- Dear David, thanks for your reply. That already helped a lot. Unfortunately more questions occured (which probably have been answered somewhere already). The student now changed to using a music video. Does that work similar to using...
- Hi Angel,No, it must cover the entire duration. The student cannot pick and choose snippets of dialogue. They should transcribe the whole section they have chosen. If there is too much dialogue in the section they have chosen,...