Category: IB English A

Close Reading, Key Passages, and Commentary

At the secondary level, students are explicitly required to develop their “close reading skills” which depend on comprehension and highlight

Graphic novel studies are a great way to galvanize students’ appreciation for literature. In a media saturated culture, students are

This unit on Othello by William Shakespeare is designed to focus on close reading skills through key passage analysis work

Twelve Years a Slave is an American slave narrative written by Solomon Northrop, published in 1853. In 2013, the story

These resources allow for an intertextual investigation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest. Césaire, a playwright

Coca-cola was first introduced in 1886 in the United States by John Pemberton who claimed it could cure nerve disorders,