The climb to the top
We will guide you through each level of understanding by providing a set of questions. Some ground rules and guidelines.
- These questions are open-ended and don't have 'correct' answers (welcome to IB English?)
- In fact, these questions are not really questions. They are prompts that put you on the right track and get you asking the right questions of your texts.
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To answer these prompts, you probably need to do all of the following:
- Read your texts
- Flick through them looking for quotes
- Use Google, LitCharts, SparkNotes, CliffNotes
- Refer to your class notes
- And of course, use ChatGPT (don't rely on it for facts, it makes up a lot of stuff!)
- You should spend about 30 minutes on the more difficult prompts, as you'll need to dig through your texts, find a bunch of quotes, and decide on the best quote to analyse.
- Rome wasn't built in a day, and the same goes for your soon-to-be Pyramids of Knowledge. It will take time. Spread out the work over a timeframe of at least a week. If you are desperately cramming, then feel free to throw this advice out of the window. Random fact: A cool verb for throwing something out of a window is “defenestrate”. Please defenestrate the said advice if you are cramming.
- You should progress from Level 1 to 4 in order as the higher levels build on top of the lower levels.