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Hi, I just started IB last week. These are my courses that i'm taking: HL Physics Econ Film SL English Lang & Lit Spanish B Math I'm facing a dilemma choosing between English Lang & Lit A and Self-Taught A1 (Thai). I'm study in China so I can take either English or Thai both in SL for language A. I'm ok with both Thai and English literatures (except for english poems...). But English is my second language and taking English A1 might reduce my overall score (._.). If I choose to take Self Taught course then I will change Spanish B SL to English B HL. I'm planning to study engineering program in Thailand or United States. So whether i'm English A1 or English B, I s…
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we've got 'istanbul:memories and the city-orhan pamuk' and 'waiting for godot-samuel beckett' since i don't really know what this essay has to be based on and don't have a good idea of the whole written assignment thing, which one would you suggest me to work on? being lazy, i'm thinking waiting for godot is short so it may be the better option.. since i haven't read the other novel.. i'm confused.
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Hey guys! So, I am starting to write my World Lit essay for the English SL course. The two plays my class read were: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. Now, my teacher said that the World Lit has to show 'progression' from my in-class writing. So, the topics for my in-class writing were: Doll's House - What effect can an audience member's own social perspective have on their interpretation of the play and its central message and characters. Cherry Orchard - Money and Economics are at the heart of the play in The Cherry Orchard. Comment on the role they play and how they are represented by Chekhov. So, currently I have an idea in my mi…
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Hi, this summer we are supposed to start our IA on our World Literature unit for English A1 HL. However, we have been given little guidance on it. Can anyone give any advice on what the markers are looking for in the IA? What makes a good IA question for this subject? PS. If any of you did it on A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, what did you do it on i.e. what was your question? and what mark did it get? Thank you
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guys, i was wondering if you could share your ideas on making the IOP more interesting.. i mean, people use flashcards, handouts, powerpoint presentations, blackboards... what else could i possibly work with?
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Hello! Is anyone doing/has anyone done Self-taught Russian here? I am just wondering about the grading of the final exams.. do you know if they are particularly picky or is it possible to achieve a 7?
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Hello all, Could anyone please help me with finding a relevant RQ for Category 3 EE in English? My current topic is women's portrayal in print-advertisements by Virginia Slims cigarette brand. The idea was to discuss how advertisers exploit women's aspirations to sell their product. According to the guide, topics in cat3 must be presented in context of specific culture/cultures or media, and here I am a little stuck. Also, I am not sure what kind of argument I could develop with that topic. All the help will be much appreciated.
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Well I m asked to do my FOA, my teacher told me I can submit a paper or video or a commentary on any text, video, song or ad. But I confused what kind of topic and how can I do my FOA. So can you guys help me to choose a topic and how I can go forward with it. Thanks A Lot
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Hey, Im taking Danish A1 Lit as a subject for IB and since i live in the Middel East i take it as a self-taught subject. I am not very advanced in Danish and therefore i am paying for a teacher to help me from denmark. This all happens over the Internet. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with a selftaught language in IB. Is it difficult or okay to take? Do you have any useful tips? I appreciate any sort of comments and help. Thankyou, Freja
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well, I think this is also called a WLE Anyway, considering that the syllabus has changed recently, it's very difficult to find tips on how to go about the new WLEs (in which you have to write about only one book), so I was hoping that if anyone had any tips they could be shared!
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So hey guys, I'm supposed to write my written assignment for English, but I don't know where to start and I'm struggling. It gets send to the IBO right? What exactly are they looking for in the assignment? The assessment rubric isn't really that helpful. What kind of content should I provide in order to get a good grade? To what extent does it have to be related to the supervised writing? I'm kind of nervous cause English is my weak subject and the written assignment is worth like 20% of your overall grade. BTW if it helps, I chose the play Medea by Euripides and my prompt is "How does Euripides characterize Medea to be a believable character to Jason through her interact…
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I know how to analyse an extract but I'm not quite familiar with analyzing poetry. Can someone help? Thanks!
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hey guys. i've got my mock IOP in three days and i've sort of picked my topic or the whole theme on which i'll base my presentation. but i don't know how to go about it.. i mean the structure of the presentation. i was wondering if someone could list, in order, the way i should frame this whole presentation.. for example the intro first, then perhaps summarising the works ? thanks, Vidit
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My teacher gave us the extracts that we will be asked in our IB IOCs. She said that she wasn't meant to give them to us They are for: Hamlet Macbeth Maya Angelou: A Song Flung Up To Heaven War Poetry If you would like me to send them to you, let me know That way you can study/annotate them and prepare for your IOCs !
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I finished my IOP about a month ago with a 27/30 - i'm proud but i could've definitely done better (i literally did it the night before it was due). I thought i'd give the people who are out there and haven't done their IOPs some tips. 1. STOP STRESSING! Of course, being a bit stressed is necessary but i often see people pulling their hair out about their IOP. Honestly, if you have analysed your material thoroughly, planned well and know what you are going to talk about, it is not that worth stressing over! 2. Choosing a topic For those of you who are like me and spend AGES trying to find the PERFECT topic - don't! i've just realised, the best thing to conquer this habit …
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Hello Over the summer I'd like to practice my essay writing skills so that when I start school in September I haven't completely lost the hang of it. Do any of you have any ideas of books I could read and essay questions I could try answering? I've been reading Jodi Picoult for fun. Maybe anything related to her? Thanks.
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Hello, I will be taking HL English Literature in the fall and am wondering what I can do to prepare for it. Does anyone have any good books to suggest to me that will prepare me for the reading in IB. Thank you!
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Our teacher assigned three poems for us to explicate and to write a commentary in regards to them, and I'm drawing a blank. I get that it's probably similar to doing prose, but she gave us no instruction, other than a couple of guiding questions that were supposed to help us. I don't know what it is about poems, but I just struggle for whatever reason with understanding them. If it's helpful, we're doing "Blackberry Picking", "Digging", and "Follower" by Seamus Heaney. I just need whatever tips you guys have that helps you go through and explicate poems/ write commentaries on them. After all, once the school year starts, if I can't do this...
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Hi Everyone, My IOP is due in a few weeks time, and I am really worrying because this is the first assessment that is actually counting towards the final grade. I am doing it on Martin Luther King Speeches, one of my school's Part 4 Works. I have a topic, and I was wondering if you guys think that it is too broad/narrow? Also, any feedback on writing the actual IOP would be really helpful. I was reading through the other posts on the forum, and they all seem to be about the actual presentation. I am pretty confident about that, but the actual writing is the worry! My topic is concerning Martin Luther King's ideas about justice, ie how he arrived at his positions and what …
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I have chosen this topic: How does Strindberg reflect the theory of social Darwinism in the characters' fates in "Miss Julie"? I am unsure if this is fine, i.e. if this is a literary topic..
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So I am doing my WL essay on a chronicle of a death foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, I want to write my essay on the role of women in the society, but I am not sure that I can write 1500 words for it. Also I am considering on writing about who was responsible for the death of Santiago Nasar I need help on choosing what to do
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Hey guys, just wondering whether it is actually allowed or against the rules to have cue cards with your script in the IOP. Obviously, you should know your material well enough to talk to the audience instead of reading to them, but just in case you completely forget what you're trying to say. Thanks in advance
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Hello guys! Does anyone know a good website that has analysis about this book (Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje)? Sparknotes only has The English Patient by him ... :[ EDIT: My bad! I should have put this under Literature! Sorry!
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Hi there everyone, Right now I am writing Eng world lit assignment on the topic: "How do the people become inhuman and lose their moral values during the time of war?" And my analysis is that during war common civilians and soldiers become ruthless and soldiers are known for the barbaric deeds committed during the period of war. The reason I gave was that people and soldiers face serious mental trauma due to problems like poverty, witnessing the death of near and dear ones, slow torture from starvation and injuries and many more. I also mentioned in my assignment that politicians and the rulers ( who started the wars) does not suffer from the consequences of the war. ( …
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I'm a bit confused about the standards for the World Lits. It has to be directly literary, but what does that mean, exactly? Also, how directly does your WL have to be related to a supervised essay that you did in class on that same work? Mine is on "The Outsider", by Camus. My supervised essay was on the topic, "What does Camus mean when he says that Meursault represents the only Christ we deserve?" The topic I chose for WL was Meursault's mental state and its representation in the novel. How do I tie these two in together to the standards? Help! Thanks!
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Hi, I am wondering if Enlgish Literature would be ok for me. I am in yr 10 now and I got a 6/7 in MYP English Phase 5 (English B extended), If i take English Literature SL next year, is it going to be a big jump for my level? I
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Hello everyone So basically, I've started writing my world lit essay on, "The Damaging Effects of War on the Female Characters of Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht." I've finished writing my introduction which is pretty good, but when it comes to writing the main body of the essay, I just get stuck! Am I suppose to actively analyse the reasons for their ruin in the play? Or just give a narrative? Should I go scene by scene or just write about the play as a whole? Thank you in advance!
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Hi, so we have been doing our collaborative interactive orals (not sure if they're the same as IOP) for some time now, and I have already written several reflective statements. The problem is, I'm not sure if I'm doing them right. We have to answer the question: How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral? I'm not entirely sure what that means. What I have been doing this whole time is summarize what each interactive oral talked about (i.e. different underlying themes in the text, symbols, etc.). Is this what you are supposed to do to? Because I don't believe I talked about CULTURAL relevance. Al…
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Hey guys , I have my Interactive Oral Presentation that i have to do next week can I have some examples of what kind of interactive oral i can do with the topics please. Thankyou
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Hi, I was wondering if any of you could name the texts + author in the past english (HL) paper 1 exam? I would like to use it as a practice. Thank you!
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Hello everyone! I don't know if there's any topic that asks the same as this one, but anyway, here I go with my question: Are the Paper 2 essay questions the same for the A literature course in all the different languages? What I mean is, if I am taking Group 1 Higher Level Spanish A literature and someone is taking Group 1 Higher Level English A Literature, would we have the same questions, or would they be different?
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Hello, my final world literature essay is due in 1 week, the last topic that i wrote my example on was too poorly expressed, and thus my teacher advised that i change topics. So i have therefor come to the topic of The use of empowerment and dis-empowerment and how it is observed between the character conflicts of Gerardo and Paulina Escobar from ' Death and the Maiden' in comparison to that of Nora and Torvald from 'A Dolls House' Please aid me in defining this question if need be or offer any advice that you can, i am in desperate need as i am a little worried it is not strong enough or possibly does not have enough backing behind it.
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Hello people: I've been kind of having trouble with English of late. My grades, ever since the start of IB, has been sh*t (well, only in English)...not the asian kind of bad, but the passing kind of bad... here is the list of my grades for each assessment Unseen commetnary: 12/20 One flew essay: 15/25 (after correction) Like water essay: 18.5/25 however, my latest assignment is the biggest bring down, I've got 12.5/20; which is extremely **** considering that people who are generally worse than me in English got higher scores... while bullsh*tting about essentially the same thing. I've been uneasy of late because I don't want english to end up dragging my scores down. I'…
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Hi, I'm doing my IOP for film and literature comparing the book solaris and the movie (old russian version) i've got everything set out but i was wondering if anyone had any presentation tips or really good ideas that will impress my teacher. For example, should i mention specific things about the history of the book, etc. Thanks so much!
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Hi - Im going to do my oral presentation on Maya Angelou's 'I know why the Caged Bird Sings' and im going to do a Role play on the silence that Maya projected when she was raped! - Do you think this would work? Need Help ASAP - Please
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Okay, I'm not getting commentaries very much so can somebody PLEASE tell me what the whole objective of a commentary is?
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Hey everybody, just joined, I need help with my WIT paper thesis. We had to base it off of an essay topic we did in class. My topic was: Analyze the treatment of women and of people of color in the novel, particularly given the historical context of The Stranger. My thesis was: In The Stranger, racism and sexism is shown throughout the whole text through the setting, character relations, and ignorance. My teacher commented on it saying the following: This is not a thesis. What are you proving? By saying racism is shown,,,, you are identifying a fact. Yes, racism is evident. But what underlying message does Camus convey? What literary conventions help develop the author’s…
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Hey survivalers, ok last one, if someone could correct this I promise to leave you guys alone i had to write a story that would be fatured in a hebdomadary magazine. C’était la fin de la journée, j’avais l’intention de me reposer et de rêver, quand tout à coup j’ai entendu un bruit dehors. Je suis allé voir par ma fenêtre, mais il n’y était rien. Je me suis retourné et j’ai vu mon chien Tim, perturbé. Soudain j’ai entendu : Tu peux m’entendre ? Moi, avant sauté trois mètres dans l’air a répondu au voix : Euhh…oui ? Ah c’est super ! Tu as encore des Césars ? J’ai super-faim. Il n’y avait personne dans ma chambre, sauf Tim. Alors, désespéré, j’ai dit : Tim, c’est toi qui p…
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Hi guys It's time for me to write my world literature essay but I'm a bit worried that the topic I've chosen is too narrow. I've chosen to write from M. Bulgakov's Master and Margarita because I just loved this book. The research question sounds something like this "Why Woland is portrayed as a positive character and what it gives to the novel?" Does the question sound good or should I change it? I really want to write a good essay so any kind of help would be appreciated
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HI there, So we are choosing our topics for World lits in enlgish right now, and I have decided to do mine on Lorca's Blood wedding. I am thinking of doing something along the lines of: "How does lorca use the symbol of blood to illustrate heriditary conflict" Is this an okay topic to do it on, if not what should I be changing? Thank you
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hey survivalers! i was on here yesterday with some german and french work i had done, asking if someone could correct it for me. So here I am again, if someone could just recheck the following french and german assignments, that would be awesome, i really appreciate the help. for this German one, i had to read about the wansee museum/Villa marlier and make an article in a travel brochure: Eine Gedenkstätte , die man heute in Berlin spezifisch im Südwesten bestaunen kann ist die Villa Marlier, wo die Wannsee Konferenz stattgefunden hat. Weiterhin trägt die Villa vieles zur Holokaust bei: In der Villa fanden im jahre 1942 die Wannsee Konferenz statt, an der viele hochrangig…
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I'm doing my written assignment on The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. My question is "How does Kundera use identity, sex, and politics to convey his theme of power?" Do you think the topic is too broad or too narrow?
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Hey guys, i have my last two german and french exams on the 20th and the 22nd. I wrote a practice paper 2 on both of them, they are pasted below. i would really appreciate it if someone could just look for any major errors. thanks so much! I realise that the mark schemes indicate what i should or should not include, but for me the grammar part is more important. For this french one I had to read a text about la martinique, and had to write a diary entry about it. Cher journal intime, C’est lundi, le commencement de la semaine de travail, c’est lundi. Le plus ennuyeux de tous les jours de travail. C’est bizarre, tout le monde n’aime pas le lundi n’est-ce pas ? La nuit dern…
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So I dont have to decide my EE topic yet but I want to do it on English Literature and I need ideas on some good novels or authors to write about. I was thinking of Conan Doyle, Allan Poe or Scott Fitzgerald but I really don't know what to write about them. I need to know asap because I need to get the books and sources so I need help guys
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Hey guys, i just have a question about this novel, because i need to write a written task about it. My RQ is how the stylistic devices are connected with the intentional effects of the author, in the novel. To explain more in detail, i mean how dialogues, silences and the open ending is a tool, to create a similar atmosphere like in the time, when chile was changed to a democracy and this commission was created to help identify the criminals, in the time of the dictatorship. Now, the stylistic i want to use are the incomplete sentences between gerardo and paulina (kind of like action-> reaction), how she always completes his sentences, when he has trouble expressing hi…
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Hey! So, I got back a commentary I had written in my English final on a poem Behaviour of Fish in an Egyptian Tea Garden. I ended up getting a 6 on this commentary. The 6 doesn't bother me, what annoys me is the reason I was given for not getting a 7. My English teacher said, "The poem is about a woman seducing and manipulating men with her charm and beauty and seduction abilities." I said the poem was about lecherous men who were tots put on edge by a beautiful, provocative woman who saw no reason to mask her independence and beauty. Suffice to say, I had a very feminist take on the whole thing...and I clarified, that it isn't necessarily the author's intent, but the moo…
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I would really appreciate some help with my IOP topic. I am doing it on The Secret River by Kate Grenville. My topic is How does The Secret River explore cultural guilt through the use of characterization. Its in about 5 days :\
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I did A streetcar named desire, death of a salesman and who's afraid of virginia woolf.
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Hi Guys Ok so the problem is criterion C: Organisation. I can write an awesome commentary and get 5s for all the rest of the needed things, but my teacher ALWAYS cuts me down on structure and I end up with a 3/5. Do you know any tips or things I could incorporate in my writing to improve on this aspect. I do follow PEE most of the time and have follow all the basic rules like focusing on 1 point per paragraph and stuff, but I guess I'm still missing something important. I have my Lit exam on Wednesday and basically it's going to be a Paper 1 mock, so all advice will be very much appreciated!!!! Simran
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hello people; it probably sounds silly to use this site as a replacement for homework checker, but is anyone willing to critique the following paragraph for my english essay?(the title is how is individual's duty to society explored in Like Water for Chocolate, and down below I am just introducing how setting allowed the author to explore the consequences, or as a lead up to my actual arguments) Set during the Mexican Revolution, the De La Garza Ranch is a metaphorical representation of the traditional Mexican society with Mama Elena as the dictator, and Rosaura, Gertrudis and Tita---the three daughters as the subjects of her rule. Esquivel effectively illustrates the fra…
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