Handy sites for IB teachers
This site is by Patrick Holmes: https://nicknicknickadam.blogspot.nl/
A literary visionary: Milton and his Satanic verses
Had it not been for John Milton, the hobbits might never have had their peaceful lives threatened by Sauron, Harry Potter might have...
Newspaper subscription (for extra reading materials).
Here are a few sites I would like you to subscribe to or read from: The Guardian UK: (scroll down to the bottom and click on 'sign up to...
From Peppa Pig to Trump, the web is shaping us. It’s time we fought back
Forget the canary in the coal mine: these days, the warning comes from a cartoon pig in a dentist’s chair. And it’s no exaggeration to...
Diasporhahaha! How Fresh Off the Boat reshaped sitcom convention
Set in 1995, and based loosely on the memoir of Viceland TV chef Eddie Huang, Fresh Off the Boat is about the fictionalised Huangs, a...
The devious art of lying by telling the truth.
It is no secret that politicians often lie, but consider this – they can do so simply by telling the truth. Confused? That statement...
Why should you read Virginia Woolf? - Iseult Gillespie
How best can we understand the internal experience of alienation? In both her essays and her fiction, Virginia Woolf shapes the slippery...
Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats
SAN FRANCISCO — At the start of this decade, the Arab Spring blossomed with the help of social media. That is the sort of story the tech...