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Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the updated version?
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hey guys, does anyone know the themes/symbols/motifs that can be found in the play "hedda gabler" by Ibsen thanks alot
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hey guys, Does anyone know which of Robert Frosts poems talks about the themes of female repression and their attempt at independence. i am writing an essay that is meant to be a comparison between "Hedda Gabler" by Ibsen, and someone told me to write on Robert Frost, but he has to many poems and i dont know which one is the one i am looking for. thanks for all your help
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I need some example of black humour from the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Scenes or events. Any Examples will be helpful, thanks
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Hey guys, I will soon be giving my IB English HL oral. A passage from Hamlet might appear and I just needed all your suggestions in pointing out the most important passages from Hamlet. Thank you all.
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Hi I am currently taking the first year of HL English. We just fnished with IOP's. I know we have World Lit Papers too, but I am confused as to what the exam at the end of the senior year will be composed of. Will we need to define literature terms or will it just be composed of essays (and how many?). Which books will the exam cover? Only books we read senior year or books from both junior AND senior year? Thanks so much! P.S.- this is the first year my school does IB which is why im confused about everything :X
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Hi guys, Do any of you know what is the quickest/ fastest method to score for English at Higher level? recently, I got back my preliminary grades and they were horrible!!!!!! I need to get at least a 6 for the year end ecaminations. Could you please give me some tips ont o how to score better for english?
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I am lost in my reaserch...I am researching The Wars and i cannot find info in the elements... Have any ideas?
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Hi, I am currently working on my IOP for English. I wanted to know how many quotations you guys think is a good number to use? Also, if anyone has any tips in general, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
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Please can some one help me i am taking Englsih Al SL and i was born in the US so the autmatically think you should be shakespeare and soo good in englsih im manging but i reallly want to get a 6 EVERY one is saying its impossible i just cant do a good commentary i can hit the right nails what do i do how do i write a commentary, how to deal with it i just cant get it right and some thing else that makes me want to kill my self last years graadutes the highest got a 4 in Englsih A1 SL so is there a chnace for a 6 for me by the way i usually get a 15 out of 20 in the commentary writing ( according to the IB marking scheme)
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hey everyone im on the way of writing my world literature essay. i studied two books "so long a letter" by mariama Ba and " the old man and the medal" by ferdinand oyono..my chosen title is: How does Oyono and Mariama ba portray religion in their respective works...firstly any ideas to re-structure the title or is it fine.secondly any ideas on what i can write?
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Hello! For my world lit paper 1, I am comparing the stranger by camus and the metamorphosis by kafka. I want to look at the development of the christ archetype throughout both novellas. However, what encompasses this archetype? all I have is: the sacrifice of one for the many. Any and all help would be appreciated!
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Hey, I'm supposed to be doing my first Written Task now and I was thinking of doing the Literary Option first. Has anyone ever written a poem and if so, is it very hard to get good marks? I was thinking of maybe writing one mimicking Robert Frost's style.
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hi...mi topic is an examination of the role of men with specific reference to Jean Anouilh's Antigone and Henrik Ibsen's Helmer.......i need suggestions on how to compare and contrast the two...basically i need help on how to kick off on this!!!
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Hey people Please can anyone help me and give me , explanations or summery of the music of chance by paul auster i would so much appreciate it thanks
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So, I'm a little confused as to exactly what we're supposed to be doing in our Individual Oral Commentaries. We're the first group of IBs going through our school, so our english teacher really knows about as much as we do. In what way is it similar to the Individual Oral Presentations? Is it basically an oral version of a commentary? And does anyone have any examples of IOCs that they'd like to share? Thanks
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Hi guys, This is one of the text I have to read for my Analysing Journalism module, and I couldn't help but notice how useful it would be as general writing tips! so if you have some spare times and want to improve your writing skills look through it it's a good read [url="http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/essays/language.html"]http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/essays/language.html[/url]
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Well i'm from Poland. And i have polish s my A1 language. The thing is that polish is the most difficult sybject in my IB. I was reallu surprised by that. You see....i'm taking all sybjects in english, the idea is to study in different country, but i spend most of my time on Polish. Most of the people in my class were failing polish in the first year. I was just wondering...is it the same with other languages? Is for example English very very hard? How about Spanish as A1?
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Hi, I just started the IB and for my oral presentation I wanted to write a short story and link it to [u]The Reader[/u] and the Holocaust and how a young child sees it. The presentation can last about half a lesson (25 minutes).(only four others in the class so speaking isn't a problem) I had a question... 1. How long do you think the short story should be around so it doesn't take ages to read and then waste the 25 minutes This is the schools first year of IB and they didn't specify anything (on half term now).
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For how long did your teacher review the work before the oral commentary? Any tips for the day of the oral commentary? Were the results above/under you expectations?
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so, my teacher has given us no indication of what to do for the World Lit Assignment He basically said, compare two works. Its due in december. Now, moving along... If anyone has any advice or any help please send it this way! I really want to get a start on it as my IA for World History is due THE SAME DAY BTW, my texts are The stranger, the metamorphosis, siddhartha, and crime and punishment
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Hi I am officially starting the IB on Monday - however I went on a 'teambuilding trip' with my future class recently, and we were all given a copy of this Charlotte Bronte novel to read. I'm betting that this will lead to some tiresome, pull-your-hair-out essay on the imagery, or some such. Does anyone know more about this subject? Has anyone done the 'Jane Eyre thang' before? PS - I LOVE this site. I found it a few weeks ago and this is my first post - I'm going to print out all the syllibi for every subject I'm taking. You''ll probably see a lot of my posts in the future.
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<politics> HOW can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms! help me to analyze this poem. bring some themes and techniques i will be happy if there is explanations for each line thx
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For my world lit books i am studying -One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich -Paradise of the Blind -Chronicle of a death Foretold If any one is doing these then do you have: -Any topic suggestions or ideas? -Any thoughts on how to approach these books? Also what is the difference between WL1 and WL2... i should know this but i've forgotten. Thanx a million -soph
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ok...so our teacher just gave each student a few lines from Act 1 of Julius Caesar and expects us to write a commentary on it [this is from the purpose of improving our understanding of the play]...i have been given Act1-Scene 3, lines 1-39....Now my problem is writing the commentary, could anyone please tell me the various themes used by Shakespeare in this scene.... I've got a few: ~Mystery & Deception ~Ominous what do think?? enough to work with??? please help me....
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Hi everyone, I'm new here so please forgive me this post doesn't belong here. This is similar to heronnumbazero's post concerning World Lit. I was away when the teacher went through World Lit with the class and I don't want to ask and look like a complete idiot. Here's my situation.. I am doing Higher Level A1 English and we have to come up with a topic between the 3 world lit book we have studied correct? Books: Like water for chocolate Zorba the Greek Madame Bovary Since I'm doing Higher Leve I believe I must write 2 papers right? Someone please give me the complete low down as I am freaking out about this... Thank you..
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I have a commentary tomorrow on a passage in 'The Poisonwood Bible' and I'm really terrible at writing them. If anyone could post up a sample commentary or give me pointers and perhaps a layout I should follow when writing mine, I would be forever grateful!
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I'm a suffering IB english student in my second semester of Junior year. We've read many novels, and I read them all, and took notes on all of them. However, when it comes time to writing an essay or giving an oral presentation, all my thesis topics are too simple, and everytime I get a bad grade because of this reason. How do you make your thesis more complicated? Here's an example of 2 essays I wrote earlier in the year. The first one got an A since it was simple and it was the beginning of the year. The second one got a C because the thesis was too simple, which wrecked the whole paper, and I've been getting C's on my papers and orals since. So how do you use high…
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Is Anyone Studying the House of Spirts or One hundred years of solitude? If so whats your thoughts on them?? Whats everyone studying for theirs??
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Well this is the question directly only to those of you who have read the house of the spirits. Well as you know in the novel, the point-of- view often changes and i'm supposed to write an analysis paragraph on the shift in POV as to their significance. If anyone can give me few hints or directions, i'll be extremely helpful~
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Ok so the poem is called Identity by Julio Noboa [quote=Identity]Let them be as flowers, always watered, fed, guarded, admired, but harnessed to a pot of dirt. I'd rather be a tall, ugly weed, clinging on cliffs, like an eagle wind-wavering above high, jagged rocks. To have broken through the surface of stone, to live, to feel exposed to the madness of the vast, eternal sky. To be swayed by the breezes of an ancient sea, carrying my soul, my seed, beyond the mountains of time or into the abyss of the bizarre I'd rather be unseen, and if then shunned by everyone, than to be a pleasant-smelling flower, growing in clusters in the fertile valleys, where the…
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Hey Guys, So I'm half way through my first year of the IB and we've just recieved the marks for out English oral presentations, and i got a high band 5. The marks havent been moderated yet but the teachers are usually pretty spot on. I just wanted to know how this scales up to the rest of you guys. I was really hopeing for at least a band six, and thought that i had done really well, but we havent been given very detailed feed back and im a bit confussed. Im sort of hoping that by the end of the IB my mark will average out to a band 6 once i've done the exams as well ans the oral commentary. Does this sound too hopeful? Also, when abouts in the course did everyone else h…
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hey guys, my high school is just enrolled in IB, and there's a lots of confusions. the teachers that are in charged don't know what they are doing. so i have a question, do you need at least 4 years of the same language to get the diploma in united sates? i asked my Ib teachers and none of them know! please...and thank you for your great help!
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This is just a general statement. Does anyone have any tips? Im testing out SL this year.
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hi everyone, one document that I have to write for my portfolio is "10. Explication Raisonnee (essay/ Dissertation)" Anyone know what it is I have to do exactly? I don't really understand =/
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Hi. I believe this is not a language question, but a general one, since it concerns the possibility of writing exams in the end IB1 (together with IB2) for courses you find really easy. At the moment, I'm thinking about dropping English A2 for English B. This is not because I find English A2 difficult (it's time consuming, though, and time is expensive in IB), but because I would like to reduce my workload as much as possible so that I can put more effort into my harder subjects (and gain some more free time as well). I've seen past papers for English B and they seem really easy. I bet I could ace them right here, right now. As such, my question is: Can I finish …
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is anyone doing Macbeth and Medea for their drama texts? if so, can you find much similarities/differences between those 2? apart from the major themes of power
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I was looking through this forum and realized that tons of us have been assigned The Outsider by Camus for WorldLit. My question is: WHY?? Oh, and also, what is the point of the book? I really am not feeling my buddy Merusault. Seriously.
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Hi, Here's my dilemma. We're in September.. and we're JUST finishing one of the four sections required.. What's more, we're supposed to have read: Bruce Chatwin - In Patagonia Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet Emily ****inson - Poems ----- Apart from the fact that the texts themselves suck, of the above, we've read half of In Patagonia (but we didnt have any problems with the storyline because it basically is a compendium of quirky anecdotes and stories), we've watched Romeo + Juliet and Pride and Prejudice and read a couple of chapters of both.. I repeat.. a COUPLE of CHAPTERS! and a selection of the poems.. …
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Okay, first, I am not asking for you to give some shady site to go to. just to be clear I was wondering if there were any sources that were reading comprehension tests for grade 12 level? They are administered by the government and I am horrible at them. I need to improve. Also, if you have any tips to help me that would be AWESOME!!
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Check this out... For the Internal Assesment in Language arts, our school implements the following three books: Aeneid by Virgil, Dante's Inferno by Aleghri, and Siddhartha by Herman hesse. Since the assignment deals with comparison, i thought of doing "How do Aleghri and Hesse portray the difficulties enountered by their protagonists through the use of diciton, details, and figurative language" Just want to know what u think abt the topic. Is it deep enough? I know i can get a ton of support..but plz advice as to how i may structure the essay and so forth. Help is appreciated
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Hi. Does anyone have notes for Sp Ab Initio? I'd really appreciate if someone could send them to me. If not, perhaps you guys know whether there are any good study guides out there. The syllabus is in my opinion very vague, since it concerns all different ab initio languages. I'd like to have a guide specifically for Spanish, with information about the grammar which we are supposed to know for the exams.
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Does anyone else do Latin B SL, and then Cicero Pro Caelio: there are some bits of this translation that I can do nothing more than fudge. UNfortunately, thre are no notes on many parts in Austin and Ciraolo, and Grant gets far from the Latin - does anyone have a word by word literal translation, even if they put it together themselves? I've only done 24 sections so far, and I think I am only doing 30 altogether, but I'd be happy to compare translations - not sure if mine gets too far from latin at points. Anyhow, any references on good word for word trans would be much appreciated.
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I'm handing in my choices of subjects tomorrow (I'm in the Pre-IB) and for group 6 I've chosen Spanish Ab Initio. So, to those of you who study this; What do you think about it?
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Hi, I'm going to take IB next year, and I really want to study japanese. I'm just wondering, is higher level Japanese significantly harder than standard level, and if so, how hard are they? I hope someone will be able to answer this. Thanks,
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Hey, friends.....can u plz help me how to go about in IB Hindi B coz im not gettin' any ideas wat to do and how to do........
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We have to do out first IOP and I get the whole idea of it and what I'm supposed to be doing but my problem is how I'm supposed to be doing it. I decided to do an oral exposé because I hate dramatic presentations. My question is... what exactly is an oral exposé? (yeah that sounds really dumb) what I mean is what am I supposed to do? is it like an essay, am I supposed to use quotes to back myself up or what? help would be great, thanks.
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Hello all. I am going to do IB right after my Summer holidays - this Monday. I am worried. My school is apparently going to start doing commentaries this November. I am doing English as language A1, at standard level. What I want to know is as follows: - How many do I have to do in total for the IB? 1, 2 commentaries? - How long should each commentary be? - Can I do any book I want? - What are "periods" of the literature course? Any and all help appreciated. God bless Sincerely Ben Lee
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What books were you required to read in high school for English A1? Here is a list of mine: Freshman year= Of Mice and Men, Black Boy, All Quiet on the Western Front, Antigone(Sophocles), The Great Gatsby, The Crucible Sophmore year= Beowulf, Brave New World, 1984, Collection of Greek Myths, A Thousand Pieces of Gold, The Good Earth Junior year= Candide, Oedipus Rex, The Kite Runner, The Grapes of Wrath, Mrs. Dalloway Senior Year= Antigone(Anouilh), Native Son, The House on Mango Street Except I forgot some of the books. (Especially the senior year books) Ok, I just remembered some more of the books. Freshman: Huckleberry Finn Sophmore: Taming of the Shr…
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hi i need some tpics to discuss for my world lit 1. the books i'm using are metamorphosis by kafka, the outsider by camus ands ghosts by ibsen. i seriously need quick help. thx in advance. it could be on any thing. themes, symoblism or x'ter.
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