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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...

  • Prejudices

    A teacher recently posted a Comment expressing concern about how certain students expressed homophobic/transphobic views in their written texts...

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  • 25 April 2024
    Noemi Tello
    Extended Essay 2018
    I was talking to another teacher here, and she mentioned that it is possible to mix some categories in English B, is that so? Let's say that the student chooses to analyze the songs focusing on literary elements used to express a message. That...
  • 25 April 2024
    Noemi Tello
    Extended Essay 2018
    Thank you David, I'll talk to her again and reconsider the songs... I really don´t see how she can develop something connected to it that brings up something meaningful. I hope we get to a good decision. Thanks a lot again.
  • 25 April 2024
    David Ripley
    Extended Essay 2018
    This is a very shaky area to deal with as an EE, Noemi - as you have commented, on the various vague ideas the student suggests. One fundamental problem is that she can only quote the lyrics - but clearly, the music is equally, or more, important,...
  • 24 April 2024
    Noemi Tello
    Extended Essay 2018
    Hi David, I have a student who wants who write her EE based on songs. At the beginning she wanted to proof if there were some changes in the way some songs presented "love" in earlier years and nowadays. She wanted to take songs from the early...