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English B
IB DP Category 1
Stockholm, Sweden, 20 - 22 September 2024
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Writing well for English B examinations
Virtual Think-In, 16 April 2024
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Receptive Language Skills in DP Language B - Paper 2
Virtual Think-In, 17 April 2024
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The Extended Essay in DP Language B
Virtual Think-In, 22 May 2024
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InThinking EnglishB is the best tool for planning, organizing and keeping up to date with everything related to EnglishB syllabus, As icing on the cake, it gives meaningful insight into the EnglishB teacher's role and motivates to improve and develop...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet," 1844
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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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- Thanks David!
- Thank you, David. I very much look forward to working with the student as he has read both works carefully and seems to have more ideas and material on Ishiguro. On the other hand, one of my weaker students (the one interested in sports)...
- An essay based on a work of literature has to be in Category 3 Literature, Sean. Cat.1 is essentially intended to be about linguistics and grammatical theory. For Cat.3, the RQ suggested would be sensible enough, I feel.
- Yes, Mary, graphic novels would be recognised as works of literature - but obviously, they would have to be novels of some quality and interest, about which it is possible to write sophisticated analysis. Remember that the basis of Cat.3 is...