Good luck to May 2012 IB students! Just a quick post: I came across a wonderful English teacher’s website that has many resources and sample papers for IB English Paper 1 and Paper 2, for both HL and SL. If you click on Paper 1 or Paper 2 on the left side of his website, you [...Read more...]
A commentary is an essay in which you discuss the effects an author has created in a poem or prose passage. The keys to writing good commentaries are clear organization, understanding of literary techniques, and the ability to explain how the author uses these techniques to affect the reader. There is no such thing as [...Read more...]
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Our teacher encouraged us to make commentary outlines in our spare time for our own revision because it prepares you for the real deal: paper 1. Introduction/Thesis: In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Hamlet discovers that his uncle has married his mother and seized the throne after the death of Hamlet’s father. In Act [...Read more...]
From the May 2010 IB English HL Paper 1 TZ1 (the Americas) exam (He’s a drifter, always floating around her, has nowhere else to go. He wishes she would sing, not much, just the scales; or take some notice, give him the fish eye.) (Bounded by round walls she makes fish eyes and kissy lips [...Read more...]