SHARED SKILLS / METHODS
Skills & Methods
General English resources for reading, analysis, and writing—useful in English 10, IB, and beyond.
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Reading a text
Critical LensesQuestions that open up a reading, with examples and further reading.SOAPSTone: a rhetorical reading scaffoldA second way into speeches, advertisements, and other rhetorical texts.TPCASTT: a poetry reading scaffoldA second way into a poem, from literal understanding to an evidence-based interpretation.
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Building a response
Unpacking Paper 1 & Paper 2 questionsWorked breakdowns and original comparison prompts to practice with.From observation to analysisEvidence, meaning and an interactive sentence workshop.Paper 1: Introductions & thesis statementsStep-by-step guidance with literary and non-literary worked examples.HLE: how an inquiry developsA short scene and a flowchart showing how observations become a working inquiry.
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