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TOKExtended Essay
Sample essaysRequirements
CriteriaAds and syllogisms
SkillsEE C1 S1 (Disgrace)
Research questions 

Summary

 

  • The English A: Language and Literature course is part of the holistic IB learning explerience.
  • The Extended Essay requirement provides students with the opportunity to write a 3,000 - 4,000 words on a topic of interest from one of their subject areas. See this section for samples and tips on how to integrated this into the language and literature course.
  • Theory of Knowledge (TOK) asks interdisciplinary questions on how we acquire knowledge. 'How do you know what you know?' There are many applications of this question to the Language and Literature course.


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Selected Pages

  • EE - Studies in Language - Sample 1

    For the first time, in 2013, students were able to submit a Group 1 Extended Essay (EE) in ‘Studies in Language’. The Group 1 essays, now, are... more»

  • Ads and syllogisms - free

    How do we know what we know? Logic is one way. Advertisements try to appeal to our sense of logic, so that we buy into a brand or... more»

  • EE C2 S1 (Chaucer)

    The following Extended Essay compares and contrasts Giovani Boccaccio's version of Griselda's Tale from the Decameron with Geoffrey Chaucer's version of Griselda's Tale from the Canterbury Tales. Taking... more»

  • EE C1 S1 (Disgrace) - free

    The following essay was inspired by two literary works: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee and The Quiet Violence of Dreams by K. Sello Duiker, both of which the student had not read in class as... more»

  • Criteria - free

    The assessement criteria for the extended essay are both general to all subjects and specific to each subject. The criteria given below are the specific to the Language... more»

  • Proverbs and common sense

    People may not be able to agree on a God, the meaning of life or whether there is an afterlife, but we tend to believe in something called... more»

 



 

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