The difference between the two different styles of writing depends on the purpose and audience of the different pieces of work. Journalistic is style of writing that is much more targeted to the general public with the main purpose of informing people know of what is going on in the world or telling certain specific …
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Guidlines: What can you tell me about this set of BOW? Give me a summary of this BOW. What is its PURPOSE, AUDIENCE, CONTEXT? The following BOW is somewhat new and very different from the previous ones we’ve taken so far. However, I seem to enjoy this BOW more than others. It tends to be …
Today we compared academic writing we usually see to the Journalistic writing in TILOHL. I had a document where I had to : consider Audience, Purpose, Context of both texts and how they are similar. I then had to write my own. We then got a chance to practice writing lead paragraphs in the form …
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During one of our classes we had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Srivastava as she visited us and shared her experience and connections to the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” She had a presentation about her experience with HeLa cells telling us mostly what makes them great, why they are so important and …
During our class the other day we looked at the structure of the book that we have been reading. We have found that there are four main narrative/points of views within the book which are the story of Henrietta Lacks the HeLa cells, Deborah Lacks’ journey and Rebeca Skloot’s experience finding the truth and telling …
Today we discussed the two different structures for our IO.
The Handmaid’s Tale we have read this book twice now and are moving on to another book, before we move on i would like to share my perspective on the book. When it comes to reading I usually tend to enjoy read science-fiction or history books, The handmaid’s tale was an exception. The book was …
Theory of Knowledge is a IB only subject that explores how knowledge is created and the different knowledge systems that humans have adopted. This is one of three cores in the IB however this core is a class we take. I really enjoy the classes as it has many elements of philosophy which is one …
Over the December break, we had to read the book: “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, which was written by Rebecca Skloot (a journalist) and published on February 2, 2010. This book revolves around the story of a african american woman, who died in 1951 of cervical cancer, but before she died her cancerous cells …
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We were supposed to have a paper 1 practice #2 before the december break but it got rescheduled to after the break. I took this time to plan for the second practice of a paper one essay which was meant to be a commentary over one of the works written by Moira Donegan a columnist …
Y12 English LL SL 2019-2021