Extended Essay Timeline & Information
C. Black – June 15, 2012
Sophomore year
Presentations in English classes go over the primary elements of the Diploma Program
including the Extended Essay.
Junior year
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Fall (October/November) – regular monthly meeting with full IB students organized
by Brian Smith begin. The Extended Essay is introduced as a 4,000 word personal
research project that is the culmination of the IB Diploma process. Students begin
to explore a few areas of interest. Brian provides a list of trained mentors to
students – also available on the IB wiki. Students are instructed to get a
notebook/binder to serve as their EE log or diary. In this notebook, students will
write down notes whenever they get an idea for their essay and/or collect articles
and information relating to their research.
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Winter (January) – at the monthly meeting, Brian goes over the parameters of the
Extended Essay in detail. Students look over sample essays from previous years.
Students choose a definitive topic to research, develop a research question and
begin gathering sources.
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February – end of the school year - Candie sets up a rotating schedule for the whole
group of full diploma students to meet with Brian every 2-3 weeks (so that they
don’t miss the same class more than once). Students discuss the progress made on
their rough drafts with Brian and detail it in their EE logs.
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Spring (May) - Candie sets us a “Mentor Meet & Greet” to be held after school in the
library. Students and prospective mentors mingle and discuss the research projects
in order to find a good fit. A little later in the month students choose a mentor.
[Note: Brian would like this to be moved to February or March ideally.]
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June – the Extended Essay Boot Camp is scheduled in the last week in June for all full
diploma incoming seniors. [Note: this process has to be coordinated with Brian
Smith and Miryam Matulic-Keller, who posts it on EINET and for which Candie and
Brian must send a “letter of interest” to Miryam’s secretary.] The boot camp is
generally held for three days (day 1 and 2 9-1; teachers work 8-2; day 3 9-11). (See
attached agenda.)
Summer – students continue to work on their drafts.
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Senior year

Fall (end of September) – rough drafts (5,000 to 6,000) words are due to Brian who
checks them for progress. [Note: students will receive an incomplete for the 1st
quarter of their ToK grade until they submit a suitable draft of the Extended Essay.
Candie communicates to Catherine Carroll-Edwards those students who are to be
assigned an incomplete on their report cards.] Candie sends out reminder to
mentors about 4-hour student meeting requirement/expectation. During Candie’s
monthly meeting with students (separate from their Extended Essay meetings with
Brian), she encourages students to proactively set up 4 meetings with their mentors.
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September – December – students meet regularly (once a month) with mentors to
review their progress. Mentors should read the Extended Essay draft in its entirety
only once prior to the final copy being handed in. A full reading of the near-final
draft should be done by November.
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November – Brian sends out Extended Essay regulations to all mentor teachers.
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December – February – students refine their drafts in order to produce a final copy
by February.
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January – students each give a 4-slide presentation on their Extended Essay topic at
the IB Diploma night. [Note: Candie sets this date up every year, reserves the room
& refreshments, recruits graduated IB students, sends out invitations, and
communicates the date to the district.]
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April (??) – mentor evaluation and predicted grade deadline. Final Extended Essay
deadline – formatted essays are printed and shipped/electronically submitted to
IBO. [Get actual date from John.] Keep copies in file for future years (both hardcopy
and electronic). Schedule a “Bon voyage EE party” with all full diploma students.
Consider having students create a “poster session” that could be used at Open House
or the IB information night.

Spring (May) – Candie requests a time slot during a Board of Education meeting. 3
juniors will present their ideas for their Extended Essays.
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Extended Essay Camp 2012 Agenda
June 25-27, 2012
Candie will send a reminder to all students prior to the camp to bring all Extended Essay
materials (EE logs, articles, materials, research question, rough draft)
Monday, June 25th (teachers: 8 a.m. – 2 p.m., students 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
Eastridge Library – Snack provided by Brian
8:00 -9:00 Candie & Brian set up the space, review materials and tasks for the day.
9:00 – 10:45
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Welcome & introductions
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As a large group, students share their questions, intros, sources, and mentor
meetings so far.
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Brian reminds students to avoid plagiarism
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Individual work time - students make a research plan, begin developing an outline,
and gather more sources

Briand gives a brief presentation on how to use the library’s databases as well as the
writing resources available on OWL (the online writing lab) and the Dartmouth
Writing Lab.
Break
11:00-1:00

Students continue to write their rough drafts; individual meetings with Candie &
Brian to review progress (students need to determine a theoretical base for analysis
if not already determined – Candie will bring the course outlines for each topic).
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Students continue reading source material and taking notes/developing outline.
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Students submit refined question, introductions, and outlines by the end of the date
(both electronically to candce_black@eastiron.monroe.edu and a printed hardcopy).

Wrap up – as a large group, students share with each other the progress they made
today as well as communicate any needs they have for the next day.
1:00-2:00 – Candie & Brian debrief on the day’s progress and prepare for the next day.
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Tuesday, June 26th (teachers: 8 a.m. – 2 p.m., students 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
Eastridge Library – Snack provided by Candie
8:00 -9:00 Candie & Brian set up the space, review materials and tasks for the day. Candie
will copy all questions/introductions into a packet for each of the students for the peer review
the following day. She will also print the document to the SMART Notebook software to
project.
9:00 – 10:45
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Brian introduces the grading rubric for the question and introduction. Students
share their questions and introductions in a peer review process (individual work
time using grading rubric).
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As a large group, students give each other feedback and discuss the strengths and
weaknesses of each question/introduction as the student being reviewed takes
notes in their EE log.
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Brian will review with student the three options for citing research: footnotes,
endnotes and text citations. Candie gives a brief presentation on how to use the
footnote function of Microsoft Word in order to begin citing sources as well as
reminding students to keep a running bibliography of all works used.
Break
11:00-1:00
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Students use time for individual guided writing towards a solid rough draft.
1:00-2:00 – Candie & Brian debrief on the day’s progress and prepare for the next day.
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Wednesday, June 27th (9:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m.)
Eastridge Library
9:00 – 11:00
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Students work individually to complete their rough draft.
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Candie will go over the expectations for a summer progress plan.

Brian will review the dates for Extended Essay work during the 2012-2013 school
year including the expectation that students will give a brief presentation on their
Extended Essay at an IB Diploma Night in January.