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PURDUE OWL WRITING LAB

GRAMMARLY

MYBIB

SOAPSTONE WRITING STRATEGY
IB LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
COURSERESOURCES
THE 7 CONCEPTS FOR IB LANGUAGE AND LIT
The Individual Oral
HL ESSAY - THE ASSESSMENT
PAPER 1 RESOURCES

Analyzing Non-Literary Text 

PAPER 2 ResouRCES

Connecting the Works - Preparation Work

Prep Work - Unpacking the Question 

Useful websites
The IB English Guys
Doug's Lang and Lit Blog

IB Language and Literature 2024-25

YEAR 1 AND YEAR 2

First Assessment 2021

SUMMER READING 2024

LITCHART FOR
CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD

INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITY TO THE COURSE

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD CRITICAL ANALYSIS

UNIT One

LitChart
FOR THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE 

Harlem in the 1920s | The African Americans - VIDEO

What was the Harlem Renaissance? |
A Walk Through Harlem - VIDEO

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD Setting: Eatonville, Florida VIDEO

ZORA DOCUMENTS EATONVILLE, FLORIDA - VIDEO

THEMES
  • Gender Roles and Relations
  • Voice, Language and Storytelling
  • Desire, Love and Independence
  • Power, Judgement and Jealousy
  • Race and Racism
Biography of 
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
1891-1960

WHO WAS ZORA NEALE HURSTON - VIDEO

PIONEERING A NEW APPROACH TO DOCUMENTING BLACK LIFE | ZORA NEALE HURSTON:
CLAIMING A SPACE - VIDEO

TRADITIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY - VIDEO

HURSTON PIONEERS A NEW APPROACH TO ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES - VIDEO

UNIT TWO

LITCHART for Sizwe Banzi is Dead 

THEMES

  • Racial Hierarchies
  • Wealth Inequality
  • Official identify vs. personal identity
  • Self-worth
  • Acting and Truth
  • Documented Reality vs. Lived Reality
  • Dreams 

NY Times Theatre Review - Sizwe Banzi is Dead

Interview - Athol Fugard Sizwe Banzi is Dead

WHAT IS APARTHEID? 

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF APARTHEID

A BRIEF HISTORY OF APARTHEID

UNIT THREE

THEMES

  • Family and Social Obligation
  • Indian Politics, Society,
    and Class
  • Love and Sexuality
  • Change vs. Preservation
  • Small Things

INTERVIEW

ARUNDHATI ROY AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie:
The danger of a single story  
Video
litchart 
The God of Small Things

UNIT FOUR

THE INTERCONNECTING OF themes of langston HUGHES' works
Langston Hughes Biography

NON-LITERARY TEXTS

THE WORK OF BANKSY
Dorothea Lange  Photography
Gordon Parks Photography
ART WORK OF BARABARA KRUGER 

HERE

PHOTOGRAPHY
Vivian Maier Photography
The work of Yinka Shonibare