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This anxious, poetry-loving teenager is the main protagonist of the series.
Who is Wirt?
This prestigious publication made Liz Montague one of the first Black female cartoonists to be regularly featured.
What is The New Yorker?
This Area of Exploration focuses on how authors use language to communicate with readers and how readers make meaning.
What is “Readers, Writers, and Texts”?
This American conceptual artist is known for her bold text-based work that critiques consumer culture and power structures.
Who is Barbara Kruger?
This term refers to the way IB learners strive to understand and respect the cultures and values of others.
What is open-minded?
Wirt’s younger half-brother, he carries a frog and wears a kettle on his head.
Who is Greg?
This artist recently installed a new piece in a subway station in Kiev, Ukraine.
Who is Barbara Kruger?
This key concept refers to the identity or situation of the reader or audience and how that shapes interpretation.
What is perspective?
This former president of the American Enterprise Institute now writes a popular column on happiness and human flourishing.
Who is Arthur C. Brooks?
This attribute describes learners who explore new ideas and experiences with curiosity.
What is inquirer?
The boys find themselves lost in this mysterious and magical forest.
What is the Unknown?
The Atlantic magazine column "How to Build a Life" argues that happiness is made up of enjoyment, satisfaction, and this third element.
What is meaning?
The Individual Oral must connect a literary work and a non-literary body of work to one of these.
What is a global issue?
Liza Donnelly’s cartoons often address this broad social issue, particularly from a feminist lens.
What is gender equality or women’s rights?
A student who stands up for their beliefs and acts with integrity is demonstrating this learner profile trait.
What is principled?
Speaker of the symbolically significant line "You're more lost than you realize."
Who is the Woodsman?
This style of visual art often appropriates this kind of imagery, pulling it from mass media and advertisements.
What are found photographs?
This Area of Exploration encourages students to explore how texts relate to and influence each other.
What is “Intertextuality: Connecting Texts”?
Liz Montague often illustrates scenes that highlight the gap between expectation and reality, making use of this literary device.
What is irony?
This learner profile trait is evident when a student shows compassion and seeks to make a positive difference.
What is caring?
This genre best describes the show’s mix of folk tales, Americana, and gothic elements.
What is dark fantasy?
In Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit critiques this common behavior, often dismissed as condescending or patronizing.
What is mansplaining?
This Area of Exploration examines the connections between texts and the cultural, historical, or social contexts in which they are produced and received.
What is “Time and Space”?
The "How to Build a Life" series in the Atlantic often draws on both modern research and these traditional sources—such as faith and literature—to ground his essays.
What are religious teachings and classical wisdom?
A student who can analyze complex problems and develop thoughtful solutions is demonstrating this trait.
What is thinker?