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Unseen Passages – Heart of Darkness

TEXT A a) Consider this first as an “unseen text”. How would you describe this voice? The voice of this passage seems to blend formality and casualty to the readers. From the first sentence it is clear that it is… Continue Reading →

PSE reflection – ACADEMICS

Challenges and new experiences I have faced in Grade 11 Finding new study methods New subject choices meant learning and adapting to new courses Meeting lots of new people in class and more Balancing my social to work life Sometimes… Continue Reading →

Essay Ideas – English

Text: Cyrano Ideas: theatre in theatre (cyrano –> director, chrisitan –> actor, Roxane –> audience, sets etc.) / art about art internal and external beauty, what is more valuable the mention of social levels on a small scale + class… Continue Reading →

The Odyssey – ENGLISH

” what do all these episodes add up to? What is Homer (or this poem) telling us about life and how to live?” Within the Odyssey, all the different books all add up to a general story to give meaning… Continue Reading →

Rubber Ducky – ENGLISH

In the last class, we wrote our own short poems based off a randomly generated word. Mine was “Rubber Duck”. Now, this was meant to be a love poem to a rubber duck or about a rubber duck but I… Continue Reading →

Ethics – TOK

In my life, I cannot think of an ethical dilemma but I hold a strong opinion over women’s rights to contraception and abortion. Whilst I do understand the ethical complications of abortion in regards to religious systems, beliefs, values and… Continue Reading →

TOK reflection on emotion and logic

Today in class we assessed 4 different choices based off a sheet of information we received. Out of the 4 groups, only 2 had the same sheet. We discussed the choices we made and compared and contrasted the two different… Continue Reading →

IO reflection – ENGLISH

Things that went well good in depth analysis relating back to the text the structure of the comparisons was effective had prepared the texts in a way which was applicable to what I was saying the outline was as required… Continue Reading →

Bad Decisions – TOK

I have made a few many ‘bad’ decisions in my life by badly estimating my odds or value. Expected value can be calculated by: (odds of gain) x (value of gain) An example of a time where I miscalculated my… Continue Reading →

Sappho and Alison Bechdel – LITERATURE

We were comparing Sappho and Alison Bechdel’s memoir in class the other day. I think it’s fascinating how both texts are both so alike yet so different. For one, in both texts, there was that explicit sensuality and theme of… Continue Reading →

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