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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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Students have started their May 2024 examinations! But they haven’t taken their English A: Language and Literature exams yet. So, we are...
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- Hi Michael,For a final, definitive call, you'd have to ask IB Answers on this one. What I do know is that Chronicle is often taught as a stand alone novel. I see it used in IOs (I moderate them), I know they are used in HLEs, and...
- 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...