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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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With up to date information on the English B, this is by far a better resource for teachers than any textbook or Teacher's guide on the subject. If there is a question about English B -- and I have had many over the years -- the answer will be...
Clay Boutilier
Shohei High School (Japan)
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Alphabets, like musical scales, or fingers and toes, or stars and constellations, or stone circles, or abacuses, or sea waves, or comets and eclipses, or genealogies, or bird and fish migrations, owe their interest and appeal to a combination of regulari
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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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- Hi David. I have a student who has proposed the following question for his EE: What are the linguistic and cultural differences exposed in the language of the English and Japanese versions of 'Romeo and Juliet' by William Shakespeare? I have...
- 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.