InThinking Subject Sites
Subscription websites for IB teachers & their classes
Disclaimer: InThinking subject sites are neither endorsed by nor connected with the International Baccalaureate Organisation.
Video Overview
IB Approved Workshops
English B
IB DP Category 1
Stockholm, Sweden, 20 - 22 September 2024
Find out more
Virtual Think-Ins
The Extended Essay in DP Language B
Virtual Think-In, 22 May 2024
Find out more
Find all InThinking Workshops at www.inthinking.net
Recommendations
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)
Quote of the day
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky (1928- )
InThinking
Supporting international schools with high quality PD & interactive online resources
- Dynamic
- Creative
- Personal
BlogSee all
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...
Subscriber commentsSee all
- 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...