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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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Our school has subscribed to InThinking English since we started our IB program in 2013. David provides excellent resources and sensible guidance which answers questions directly. As well as building program contents, thereâs invaluable advice about...
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- 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...
- 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.
- 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,...
- 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...