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Hi all I am planning on doing my iop on 'Death and the Maiden'. How many of you did your iop on that?
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Hello all, I have found a video where the topic I'm writing my WT1 about is discussed. However, through my WT I want to challenge this view point and I was wondering what the best text type would be? If it would have been a news article I would have used a letter to the editor, but since it is a video I'm not entirely sure of the appropriate text type. Any advice is appreciated!
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Pride and Prejudice Setting
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Hey guys So for english we were assigned pride and prejudice and I actually thought it was a pretty great book. I bet most of you have watched the movie already and maybe have not read the book, but I still recommend it Anyways We had a question of how the setting of the novel affected the events. I really wasn't such a fan of the setting of the book at all. I'm not into very much of how they talk and all that, but I do love the plot. I do however think that the setting had great impact on the novel because of all the traditions they had Just wondering what you guys thought if you have read or watched the movie.
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Any ideas for books I might read to improve my vocab?
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Hi guys, For the English written task, is it ok if I write it in the persona/voice of someone else? I want to write my task in the voice of a Scottish journalist, yet I'm American, I don't have British heritage, and I'm obviously still a student. Will I be marked down for not speaking as my my true self? Thanks.
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I took an oral exam yesterday it was around 13-14minutes long. My teacher started asking questions at 11 minutes, is this ok?
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So I decided to write my commentary on "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen, though I'm quite unsure what topic to chose. I've narrowed it down to something along the lines of "Ibsen's use of a modern tragedy as a way of criticising women's roles in society." (ya idk) where i'd discuss how Ibsen used realism (while listing examples ofc) to create a modern tragedy that was meant to provide a social critique of women's roles in society. GOOD ENUFF? help please edit: i was thinking of "Ibsen's use of realism as a tool for social critique". Please i need help with the phrasing
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Is there any help on how to make my presentation time any longer ? What tips I can use on how to pass a couple of minutes ?
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hello, it has come to that time of a year again when IB students freak out over their WIT essays (and EE), so, would any IBSurvival senpai be happy to look at my WIT draft and tell me if I am doing the right thing>>> you will be rewarded in virtual hugs and warm fuzzy feelings
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Hi, I was wondering whether someone could help me analysing this poem. I am practising for my mock exam next week and would appreciate if someone could help me with the following: 1.) Key themes of the poem 2.) Poetic language/imagery 3.) Structural techniques Many thanks in advance
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How does Dostoevsky use punctuation to develop character and plot??? Please help!!!! Thanks in advance
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Hello, Im a self taught candidate and I have to write my World literature (part 1) essay. I decided to write about Hamlet. Im not sure what to write about and some tips would be appreciated. Prompts What is the impact on the work of a major choice and/or decision made by the characters.In what ways do the voices and tradition present in the workWhat minor character plays the most significant roleTo what extent is the natural landscape important to the impact of this workDo you think there are some characters in the work whose chief role is to convey cultural valuesHow does the author convey the sense of time passing in the workIn what ways is the work interested in being …
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I am in IB year 11 and need help to decide my written task 1 topic. I have taken English Lang & Lit SL. Our teacher has told us that it should be under the topic of persuasion or Bias or both(It cannot be on popular culture). It has to be related to media (can be any form of media). Can someone help me selecting the topic please, this is my first written task and i am absolutely clueless. I am interested in technology, computers, science and cars. Any topic apart from these will also be fine. Your help will be appreciated. Thank you
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During last week, I had been preparing for my Norwegian A HL IOP for quite a while - building up a massive ego and self-esteem over a weeks period to prepare myself to present. My goal was a 6 or a 7, something I am fully capable of doing. On Monday I felt like a star - my mood was perfect, I was serious, focused, clear-minded, and everything was perfect. I got a ****load of homeworks (my IOP was the day after), but I handled it pretty nicely. I am a quite spontaneous person, and I have always been able to present things nicely without the use of a manuscript. I usually never have any problems with anxiety or stress during presentations. However! On Tuesday morning I wak…
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I need help, major. Thesis : Shelley uses passive women to serve as a refection in a flawe culture. Book - FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley! I don't know what to hook the conversation' & creative part! Thank you!
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Hi! I just need some feedback and help with my written assignment topic on 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. So what do you think of my WA topic: 'How is magical realism used in the novel and what is its significance?' Should I narrow it down to: 'How does Marquez's use of magical realism in the novel affect its narrative?' Even if you haven't read the novel, can anyone suggest what are some other impacts of the use of magical realism; what are some of its purposes? Also, are there any must-mention things that I should include in my essay? Thanks heaps in advance.
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Hi there, I am half considering The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison for both IOP and EE. EE is a comparison with another work on the theme of race and appearances. However, for IOP, it's a comparison with another work (not the one in EE, a third book) about the theme of femininity. Is this valid? According to IB Guides, we can use work related to our syllabus in class for EE, but has to demonstrated wider reading (I compared with a not-in-syllabus book). According to the guide too, we cannot use the same topic for IAs and the EE. However, my topics are not the same, only one of the books is the same. Like EE: BookA and The Bluest Eye (race and appearance) And IOP: BookB an…
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Hello! I was wondering if someone could help me with my written assignment topic. I've worked out with the whole essay in The Inhabited Woman by Gioconda Belli. For those of you who don't know about it, it's a story in a dual point of view with magic realism. In my essay, i've worked around the character of Itza (an indigenous spirit who brings out magic realism and inhabits Lavinia's body.) However, I have no idea as to how I could frame my question. Are there any tips or anything? Please help soon! I really need to do this. Thank you so much!
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Ok, so for my Written Assignment I have chosen the book 'If This is a Man' by Primo Levi. Moreover, I was wondering if my topic is appropriate/specific enough. My topic, which I can't bring myself to actually come up with a good title yet, goes something along the lines of: The use of Antonio, Lorenzo and Jean (three of the most important characters) in providing the reader with a better understanding of 'life' inside the camp (Auschwitz concentration camp, for those who have not read this memoir). I would appreciate any feedback Thank You
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Hi guys! Im an Indonesian who currently studying my IB at China ! My group one subject is Bahasa Indonesia Self-taught SL, and i dont know where to start , what books to read or how to work out the essay and oral test . Could someone help me out by giving some advice or recommendation on books ? Or maybe a well-known indonesian teachers ? Thanks ~~ Ur help is a hope for me !!
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Eng A Literature vs. LangLit
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So my question: What is the main difference between Eng Lit and Eng LangLit? The difference in difficulty, the amount of work and the difficulty of getting good grades? I dont what I want to study at University, but not something Language related. Rather something math, science, or economics realted (which are very likely going to be my HLs, Physics for the science and also Chemistry SL)
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My IOC is in less than a week. I will be given a Plath poem and I will be discussing either Macbeth or DFW essays. what is the best way to prepare for this?
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Hi! I'm doing my IOP in about 3 weeks time on Death of a Salesman but I have NO IDEA what to do it on, and my teacher is so unhelpful, she basically told us not to worry about it and today mentions that we only have 3 weeks... I am freaking out!
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Hello everyone, My IOP is in less than 2 weeks. What is the best way to prepare for it? I will given a Plath poem with a discussion of either Macbeth or DFW essays.
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Hello Everyone, I am doing a practice mini-IOP of 5 minutes for my IB English HL class on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, I wanted to talk about racism, but I don't know how to present it, I mean I wanted to do something creative... I am on my own by the way... And if not something creative I don't know what I could talk about let's say that I will discuss if the book is anti-racist or racist... What could I say? :/ I am not sure if my topic is that good though...
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so my topic for my IOP is having no self control in the novels Thier Eyes Were Watching God and Things Fall Apart but i dont know how to start it , ughh . I'm so frustrated
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This isn't IB work but I'm really struggling with getting an Oedipus Rex Essay outline. My topic is about Sophocles' intentions for showing that free will determines one's future. But I don't know what my points are going to be. PLS HELP
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Hi, I have to present my iop in 2 weeks and i was wondering if someone could help me with ideas about presenting it. My topic is different levels of resilience in The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman and why some people are able to moe on while others can't. Also my teacher wants it to be creative and interactive. Please help!!
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I've just finished year 1 of IB. Everything has been going great, except for one little thing... My HL English teacher has never taught IB before, and I literally haven't learned a SINGLE thing from him this entire year! It was ok at first, I thought he was just being a bit lax and would get into it later on, but an entire year has passed, and although we've had some great, enlightening, off-topic philosophical discussions... I can't help but freak out a little that an entire year has passed and I don't have any idea: How to write a comparative essay (or any good lB English essay for that matter!!)What the reflective statements are actually supposed to be about...How to d…
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what about self-taught languages? the way I understand it, it's not an actual class, right? you just read books from the list in your spare time and then write eassys/get tested on it. so if I take that as an extra course it's not gonna be that much of additional work? also I don't know what language should I choose, if I do it. My native language is Ukrainian, but I also I speak Russian perfectly (it's very similar to Ukrainian). I read books in Russian and a lot of stuff on the internet, but I'm pretty bad in spelling. Still I think it's useful to know it. So should I do it? And if yes, which one? and again thanks for being so helpful
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I need help on choosing a IOP topic from the book , "The Kite Runner. " I present in 2 weeks and I'm in desperate need of a topic . Any help , please ?
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so i have my iop presentation the day i get back to school after break, which is still in a while, but i do want to get it out of the way as soon as possible. i've chosen to do a comparison between The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Stranger by Albert Camus. the thing is, i don't really know what i'm doing... my plan is to do something along the lines of a comparison between gatsby and meursault; their driving forces and their outlook on life - how gatsby is driven by love, while meursault couldnt be any less indiffferent to situations. i understand this is very vague, so i'm hoping that someone can give me some ideas or some tips that i could use just to get…
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Can anyone give me some tips to comment on plays? For example, how is it different from commenting on a novel? I don't really know what direction I'm supposed to head in when I comment on plays. For example my teacher said a question that could come up in our IOD would be: Why does Shakespeare limit the setting to Denmark? And for the last question, in the context of the content of the play I would've answered that "Elsinore was Hamlet's prison.... blahblahblah" but then someone brought up that given the time the play was written, it would have been difficult to put on the production if it was all in one location I would have never thought of that.
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Hey, So we did our IOPs for English early on in our first year of IB (not really sure why, we were still clueless ib-lets then) and despite consistently getting 6s and 7s throughout the year I got a 5 for my IOP, which i was pretty disappointed with.I was just wondering, would there be any chance of me getting a 7 for my final grade? I'd love to get at least one 7 in IB and seeing as I've been pretty close in the last I'd love to get one for English. My teacher told me I'd be very happy with my IOC and world lit scores so I'm assuming I would have gotten 6s or 7s for those, and I do pretty well with essay writing and commentaries so I'm feeling pretty confident for the ex…
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Hi. We've studied A Scandal In Bohemia and the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie featuring Robert Downey Jr. I was planning to do like a video or maybe act out a scene to show how Mary(Watson's wife) could be given a bigger part or have more significance in the movie. My teacher okayed the topic but i don't know how to go about with it. Please help? xx
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I need to start my IOP soon, and I just don't know what to do it on. My teacher hasn't been very clear about it, and I was just wondering if I can do it on pretty much anything? I know I have to do it on one of the books we read, but are there really any restrictions beyond that?
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Hey guys, I'm interested in these two short poems: Edge and Morning Song by Sylvia Plath. Morning Song is about the birth of her child, while Edge is her last poem about death. In MS, she is uncertain about the birth and motherhood, while in Edge, she sounds absolutely sure about death. I would like to compare/contrast these two poems, anyone has any insight into them? What could I possibly use to contrast them to the themes of birth and death? I'm a little lost now. Any help with examples to even form an actual title for my IOP would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Hello! I'm doing my Written Task 2 on media analysis. I just had a quick question. Am I allowed to base it on two similar adverts, or must I base it on one? What are the restrictions? Also, apparently this advert was a parody. If I mention that and go into detail about why someone would make a parody of it, would this advert be usable? Thank you everyone in advance, hope you had a merry Christmas and a happy holiday!
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Hello, We've just started our written task on Part 1. & I have picked Gender. My text type is a fashion blog, showing how women speak and stuff. Can someone please help me in what to write in the rationale about a fashion blog please? Thanks
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Admittedly i don't know what the exact specifications for this written task are, if someone could clarify as to what it is that would be superb. Thanks for the help!
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Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas ?
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Hi guys So I was wondering if anybody had already read this book and if so could possibly help me figure out some things about it? I was wondering what the major theme was Like I see a social type of theme but I'm not sure how to put it. (This is for LangASelf-taught btw) thank you
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I never finished my supervised writing during class for the Works in Translation essay. I have a clear enough link with the points I did write to write the actual essay, but just want to be sure the supervised writing doesn't count for anything? Will the IB mark it or even read it?
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Hello, tomorrow I'm having a mock exam on english HL- P1. Its the first time and im a bit scared about it. Any recommendations?
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Hey guys, I'm really starting to worry about my English HL Paper 1 exam. Looking back at some past papers I thought that we will be given one chose out of two passages to write the essay on. But after talking to some people and looking through some other websites, I realized that it might actually be picking a pair out of two pairs of literary texts to compare and contrast. Which one is it? This is super urgent I'd really appreciate an answer ASAP. Thanks
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umm i'm kind of doing my FOA and i wanted to ask u guys if u could help me how should i do it because im preparing a short film inorder to show my FOA and my topic is theater and language. like how can theater be shown in form of language. or how has theatre changed the idea of language thanking you tashi sherpa
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How to write longer essays?
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Hey Everyone, This thread might be off topic, but, IB requires you to write a lot in every subject, and that's exactly what my weakness is. I struggle a lot when writing essays; writing anything more than 250 words become a pain. I know that is horrible, so I really want to improve. I still have 2-6 months left before I begin my IB year 1 (depending on which school I go to) and I really want to use this time to become better at writing. How do you guys/gals write the essays in IB? Any tips? Please help me out, Aniruddh
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Hey guys! I have my English IOP next week and im running out of ideas. I'm thinking about analyzing a poem line by line, but I also want it to be creative. A person in my class for example re-wrote the poem in his own words but I don't want to take her idea so do you guys have any fun ideas I could do? All ideas are helpful! Hope to hear from you guys!!
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I was sick and slept through my alarm and missed my IOC! Can I make it up by some chance?
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Hey guys! I need ideas for an English IOP on Macbeth by Shakespeare Or Jump by Nadine Gordimer. I can't really wrap my head around what exactly my IOP is supposed to about. Help?
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