IB Loving Lit

This is an amazing unit plan for IB English Literature in the new 2021 curriculum. It includes lessons, teaching presentation slides, all worksheets, and a video for Kafka's The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, The Hunger Artist, First Sorrow, Before the Law, and The Judgment. Items in this package include: Lecture Notes, Discovery Education Great Books Video and Quiz, "isms" of Metamorphosis: Surrealism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Freudianism, Marxism, Existentialism- Research project and

This resource will provide you will all of the literary essentials to analyze in Truman Capote's "Nonfiction Novel," In Cold Blood! Lessons on characterization, theme and motif, contextual research of articles, queer theory, setting, verisimilitude, rhetorical appeals, and so much more! Students will have ample to to reflect in their Learner Portfolios in this unit with guided questions, as well as end the unit with a Mock Oral exams, meeting the requirements of the new Individual Oral! Include

This is a complete unit for Beckett's Waiting for Godot for IB English literature 2021 New Curriculum. It includes connections to TOK, Intertexuality, and Learner Portfolio. It includes lessons such as: introductory lectures, Existentialism vs. Absurdism, Character, Symbol, Theme, Motif analysis, Works in Translation lesson, Individual Oral practice on Global Issues, Global Issues lesson, Paper 1 Practice, Analysis of Lucky's speech, Annotation of structural elements of Drama, and great resourc

This Unit plan includes a PDF of a 90 page teaching unit for presentation to your students as well as 37 pages of word document resources as a student packet. It covers lecture and background information on Austen, The Regency Period, Pride and Prejudice, etc. Lessons include: Characterization Analysis, Setting Analysis, Marriage Analysis, Identity Journey, Critical Lenses, Paper 1 and Paper 2 practice assessments, Quotation Analysis, Motif and Theme analysis and so much more! In the form of ji

This is a complete editable Learner Portfolio for the new IB English Literature Curriculum that can be put into a Binder or straight into OneNote Classroom Notebooks. It includes directions for how the student will use the Learner Portfolio in their classroom, the Works Studies Form for the student IB Assessments, too many resources for both the Portfolio and the IB English Literature course to count, Areas of Exploration, the seven Essential Concepts, the Global Issues, samples of all of the as

This is a complete editable Learner Portfolio for the new IB English Literature Curriculum that can be put into a Binder or straight into OneNote Classroom Notebooks. It includes directions for how the student will use the Learner Portfolio in their classroom, the Works Studies Form for the student IB Assessments, too many resources for both the Portfolio and the IB English Literature course to count, Areas of Exploration, the seven Essential Concepts, the Global Issues, samples of all of the as

This is a zipped file containing a full Unit Plan for Emily Dickinson's poetry geared toward IB English Literature- New Curriculum assessment. It includes a PDF of powerpoint slides with 47 pages, and a corresponding handout for students of 48 pages. It contains 30 poems with a pre-reading assignment and guiding questions, lecture notes, a background contextual research project, meter and scansion, Paper 1 Practice, Paper 2 Practice, Mock Oral Practice Learner Portfolio connections, lessons with

This is a unit plan for Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Included are lessons on literary nonfiction, characterization, theme and motif, connections to the Global Issues, connections to the Central Concepts, a Socratic Seminar on Ethical Issues addressed in the novel, critical lenses, and a summative Paper 2 assessment (it's paired with other novels we have studied, but you can replace these with any work). Included are all handouts for each lesson. This bundle of materials

This is an easy-to-follow basic tutorial for Adobe Premier Pro. I included both written directions and screen shots for the following skills: opening a new project, starting a new project, saving and exporting, using transitions, inserting titles, trimming clips, and using basic tools. These were all of the skills my film students needed to learn Adobe quickly and easily edit their own videos. Adobe Premier Pro offers A LOT of tools for students to create professional videos, but if you are l

This is a 12 slide powerpoint with 11 different Ice Breakers based on 11 different apps. This contains fun icebreakers that students can complete electronically that not only shows their computer and creativity skills, but also a great way to introduce themselves to the teacher as well as other students. App icebreakers based off off: Youtube, Timehop, Twitter, Twitch, Disney+, Reddit, Amazon, Pokémon Go, Audible, MyfitnessPal, and Bitmoji.

Materials packet including poetry from Dickinson, Byron, Giovani, Angelou, H.D., Johnson, and Shakespeare all looking at the portrayal of women in poetry. Includes the poems, lecture notes, meter analysis, paper 1 and paper 2 prompts for IB English and more. Packet of worksheets for students and presentation slides for teachers. Below are the youtube links/ websites referenced in the presentation: She Walks in Beauty by LORD BYRON (read by Tom Hiddleston) - YouTubeShe Walks in Beauty by Lord Byr

This activity can be used to create a discussion on how the texts you've studied in English connect to TOK. The questions are grouped by Areas of Exploration (Time and Space, Intertextuality, and Readers/Writers/Texts. You'll notice that at the beginning, I suggest to my students which works can apply to which questions, but then I gradually release them by giving them a bank of questions to choose from.

If you struggle with getting your students to analyze beyond theme, symbolism, tone, etc., then these charts will help them to focus on deeper, more advanced levels of analysis. This four page document not only lists conventions often associated with language, literature, drama, creative non-fiction, and graphic novels, but it also ranks the terms by level of expertise. The yellow chart is basic, the blue chart is proficient, and the green chart is advanced. This is a great tool to use during

This is a resource pack for the new IB English Written HL Task. What is the English HL Written Task? How is it graded, Rubric, Skills Needed, Practice Writing, Model Samples, Reading Tracker, the Essential Concepts worksheet, Inquiry Research Questions, Source Analysis, Evidence, and Citation, Self Reflection and more!

Worksheets and activities for Analyzing films and well as Literature to Films

This unit was designed for the new curriculum (first assessments 2021) for IB English A: Literature for the graphic novel of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Even though it is for the graphic novel, almost all lessons can be adjusted to suit the traditional novel version. Included in this unit is a workbook aligned to each lesson, along with lessons on the background of the novel/author/socio-cultural context, frame narrative, gothic literature, Byronic Hero, symbolism, characterization, gra

This lesson introduces the IB English A Paper 1 and provides practice for students for all four types of genres. Included are two cold reads for each of the four genres (a total of eight cold reads), handouts and activities to tackle the assessments, the rubric, mark bands, and so much more! This lesson is ready-to-go and can be used multiple times for each of the genres throughout the course. It's like eight lessons in one!

This is a unit plan with materials for Yasunari Kawabata's Thousand Cranes. Included are lessons on background information, characterization, theme and motif, connections to the Global Issues, connections to the Central Concepts, critical lenses, and a summative Paper 2 assessment (with our previous novel The Kite Runner, but you could replace this with any other work of your choice). Included are all handouts for each lesson. This bundle of materials are aligned to the new curriculum for IB Eng

This is a unit plan for Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. Included are lessons on background information, characterization, theme and motif, connections to the Global Issues, connections to the Central Concepts, and a summative mock Paper 2 assessment (it's a mock Paper 2 because this is the first work we study, so we do not have a comparative novel). Included are all handouts for each lesson. This bundle of materials are aligned to the new curriculum for IB English A (first exams 2021), althou

This is a PDF of multiple lessons for Haruki Murakami's The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. It includes, essays, group assignments, presentation topics, lecture on magical realism and hypertext, and a lesson on translation.