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English B
IB DP Category 1
Stockholm, Sweden, 20 - 22 September 2024
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The Extended Essay in DP Language B
Virtual Think-In, 22 May 2024
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This website is a great resource for English Language B teachers. Lots of information and best of all, free resources to use in class! I also like the way it's very up-to-date... I can highly recommend it!
Judith Goebel
Frankfurt International School (Germany)
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To B or Not to B?
The IBDP is notoriously tough, and for good reason. Perhaps understandably, students (and their parents) will look to game the system if they...
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A teacher recently posted a Comment expressing concern about how certain students expressed homophobic/transphobic views in their written texts...
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- Thanks for the example Joseph - sounds like an interesting topic! I'm always surprised by the broad spectrum of acceptable topics for a Language B course!
- Thank you David! I agree, the fan fiction idea is extremely vague, I think it's just something she is interested in and has not yet developed it further since she did not know whether it's an acceptable source / topic. I think every year...
- Hi Jenna, A few years ago, I had a student use the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act as a cultural artefact. She used it to illuminate American attitudes towards social welfare but also criticised the act's ineffectiveness.
- First of all, Jenna, the fanfiction issue... I'm not familiar with fanfiction either, but I take it to refer to stories which draw from, or are developed from, existing literary fiction - correct? If so, the category would depend on the approach...