IB English Language and Literature
  • Welcome
  • MYP English
    • GRADE 6 >
      • 1 Myths and Legends
      • 2 The Phantom Tollbooth
      • 3 Immigrant Kids
      • 4 The Princess Bride
      • 5 Introduction to Poetry
      • Wide Reading
    • GRADE 7 >
      • 1 Short Stories
      • 2 The Outsiders
      • 3 The Giver
      • 4 Mini-Unit: Poetry
      • 5 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
      • Wide Reading
    • GRADE 8 >
      • 1 Short Stories Around the World
      • 2 The Pearl
      • 3 Animal Farm
      • 4 Poetry Anthology
      • 5 Noughts and Crosses
      • Wide Reading
    • GRADE 9 >
      • Course Outline
      • 1 Poetry Around the World
      • 2 Dystopia
      • 3 Macbeth
      • 4 Media Unit
      • 5 Of Mice and Men
      • Independent Reading
      • JUNE EXAM
    • GRADE 10 >
      • Course Outlines
      • 1 War Poetry and Propaganda
      • 2 Short Stories
      • 3 The Merchant of Venice
      • 4 The Catcher in the Rye
      • Wide Reading
  • DP Lang & Lit
    • GRADES 11 & 12 >
      • Course Outline & Syllabus
      • Units of Study >
        • Readers, Writers, Texts >
          • Langston Hughes
          • Persepolis
        • Time and Place >
          • Things Fall Apart
          • A Doll's House
        • Intertextuality >
          • Pygmalion
          • The Great Gatsby
      • Non-Literary BoW
      • Assessment Tasks >
        • Overview
        • Individual Oral (IA)
        • Paper 1 (EA)
        • Paper 2 (EA)
        • HL Essay (EA)
  • Academic Writing
    • MLA Formatting
  • Homeroom
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Study of Language

Synonyms
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Idioms
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Homophones and Puns
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Puns
The Homophone Machine
Sound devices
  • Rhyme
  • Rhythm
  • Alliteration
  • Sibilance
  • Onomatopoeia 

Practice - Creative Writing

1. Imagine you are stranded on a desert island. Describe your experience while using at least two idioms.
2. You are a bat flying around at night. Describe your surroundings using three similes.
3. Imagine you are in a boiling desert. Describe how hot it is using at least three similes.
4. You are going on a holiday with your parents. Describe the experience using at least three pairs of homonyms/homophones.
5. You are chosen to go to outer space and report on a  newly discovered planet. Write your report using three pairs of homonyms/homophones.
6. You are on a huge roller-coaster and are starting to feel very sick. Describe this experience using three similes.
7. You want to become the president of your country and you think the people will vote for you if you are funny. Write a speech using two puns.
8. Write a paragraph describing the movement of the ocean using at least three examples of personification.

Novel Study

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Themes

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​Language Study

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​Summative Assessment

Write an original story using figurative language
Figurative Language Story


​Extension

The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)
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  • Welcome
  • MYP English
    • GRADE 6 >
      • 1 Myths and Legends
      • 2 The Phantom Tollbooth
      • 3 Immigrant Kids
      • 4 The Princess Bride
      • 5 Introduction to Poetry
      • Wide Reading
    • GRADE 7 >
      • 1 Short Stories
      • 2 The Outsiders
      • 3 The Giver
      • 4 Mini-Unit: Poetry
      • 5 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
      • Wide Reading
    • GRADE 8 >
      • 1 Short Stories Around the World
      • 2 The Pearl
      • 3 Animal Farm
      • 4 Poetry Anthology
      • 5 Noughts and Crosses
      • Wide Reading
    • GRADE 9 >
      • Course Outline
      • 1 Poetry Around the World
      • 2 Dystopia
      • 3 Macbeth
      • 4 Media Unit
      • 5 Of Mice and Men
      • Independent Reading
      • JUNE EXAM
    • GRADE 10 >
      • Course Outlines
      • 1 War Poetry and Propaganda
      • 2 Short Stories
      • 3 The Merchant of Venice
      • 4 The Catcher in the Rye
      • Wide Reading
  • DP Lang & Lit
    • GRADES 11 & 12 >
      • Course Outline & Syllabus
      • Units of Study >
        • Readers, Writers, Texts >
          • Langston Hughes
          • Persepolis
        • Time and Place >
          • Things Fall Apart
          • A Doll's House
        • Intertextuality >
          • Pygmalion
          • The Great Gatsby
      • Non-Literary BoW
      • Assessment Tasks >
        • Overview
        • Individual Oral (IA)
        • Paper 1 (EA)
        • Paper 2 (EA)
        • HL Essay (EA)
  • Academic Writing
    • MLA Formatting
  • Homeroom