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Language A: Language and Literature study guides
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IB Diploma Programme Language A: Language and Literature – Analysing Prose, Poetry and Drama Study Guide
Study guide to close reading of prose, poetry and drama for IB DP Language A: Language and Literature, with original and pre-1929 worked examples.
Language A: Language and Literature · International Baccalaureate · IB
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IB Diploma Programme Language A: Language and Literature – Intertextuality: Connecting Texts Study Guide
Study guide to Intertextuality in IB DP Language A: Language and Literature – allusion, parody, text-type conventions and comparing texts.
Language A: Language and Literature · International Baccalaureate · IB
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IB Diploma Programme Language A: Language and Literature – Language, Context, Culture and Power Study Guide
Study guide for IB DP Language and Literature on representation, bias, power, gender and identity in texts, and how reception shifts across time and place.
Language A: Language and Literature · International Baccalaureate · IB
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IB Diploma Programme Language A: Language and Literature – Non-literary text types and their conventions Study Guide
IB DP Lang and Lit study guide to non-literary text types: adverts, editorials, speeches, blogs, infographics, photos, cartoons, reports, image and layout.
Language A: Language and Literature · International Baccalaureate · IB
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IB Diploma Programme Language A: Language and Literature – Paper 1: Guided Analysis of Non-Literary Texts Study Guide
Step-by-step study guide to IB DP Language and Literature Paper 1: read an unseen non-literary text, plan, structure and time your analysis.
Language A: Language and Literature · International Baccalaureate · IB
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IB Diploma Programme Language A: Language and Literature – Paper 2: The Comparative Essay Study Guide
How to plan and write the Paper 2 comparative essay for IB DP Language A: Language and Literature: choosing works, thesis, woven comparison and evidence.
Language A: Language and Literature · International Baccalaureate · IB
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IB Diploma Programme Language A: Language and Literature – The HL Essay Study Guide
Study guide to the IB DP Language and Literature HL essay: choosing a work, building a line of inquiry, research, drafting, structure and referencing.
Language A: Language and Literature · International Baccalaureate · IB
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IB Diploma Programme Language A: Language and Literature: Syllabus Guide
The three areas of exploration of IB Diploma Programme Language A: Language and Literature – Readers, writers and texts; Time and space; Intertextuality – and how the course's mix of literary and non-literary text study is examined, for first assessment 2021.
Language A: Language and Literature · International Baccalaureate · IB
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IB DP Language A: Language and Literature – Readers, Writers and Texts
How a writer's choices of language, form and structure shape meaning across literary and non-literary texts, and how a reader actively constructs interpretation – one of three equally-weighted areas of exploration of IB Diploma Programme Language A: Language and Literature, first assessment 2021.
Language A: Language and Literature · International Baccalaureate · IB
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IB DP Language A: Language and Literature – The Individual Oral and Global Issues Study Guide
How to choose a global issue, pair a literary and a non-literary extract and structure the IB DP Language and Literature individual oral.
Language A: Language and Literature · International Baccalaureate · IB
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IB DP Language A: Language and Literature – Time and Space
How the context of production and reception shapes meaning across literary and non-literary texts – one of three equally-weighted areas of exploration of IB Diploma Programme Language A: Language and Literature, first assessment 2021.
Language A: Language and Literature · International Baccalaureate · IB
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