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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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  • 18 April 2024
    David Ripley
    Cat.2 clarified
    First of all, Jenna, the fanfiction issue... I'm not familiar with fanfiction either, but I take it to refer to stories which draw from, or are developed from, existing literary fiction - correct? If so, the category would depend on the approach...
  • 18 April 2024
    David Ripley
    Cat.2 clarified
    I assume that the student has a copy of Malala's speech, Sofia? If so, that is a cultural artifact. Also, if she is going to analyse the "impact", she will need evidence of this impact - presumably in the form of statistics, opinion surveys...or...
  • 18 April 2024
    Jenna Salminen
    Cat.2 clarified
    Hi David! I was wondering whether fanfiction published online would count as a cultural artifact for 2B. Or would this depend on how they treat the material - if it's literary analysis, could it also go under category 3? I am not that familiar...
  • 17 April 2024
    Sofia Vanoli
    Cat.2 clarified
    Hello David and this lovely community, after reading the previous comments I realized that my student's RQ does not fall into Cat. 2B since she's not using any artifact. In the beginning, she was going to analyze the impact of Malala Yousafzai's...