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+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "### Part 1: Building the base Anagram Checker"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 1,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "True\n",
+      "False\n",
+      "True\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "def anagram_checker(word_a, word_b):\n",
+    "    cleaned_word_a = word_a.lower()\n",
+    "    cleaned_word_b = word_b.lower()\n",
+    "    return sorted(cleaned_word_a) == sorted(cleaned_word_b)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "print(anagram_checker(\"Silent\", \"listen\"))\n",
+    "print(anagram_checker(\"Silent\", \"Night\"))\n",
+    "print(anagram_checker(\"night\", \"Thing\"))"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "### Part 2: Expanding the functionality of the Anagram Checker"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 2,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "name": "stdout",
+     "output_type": "stream",
+     "text": [
+      "True\n",
+      "False\n",
+      "False\n"
+     ]
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "def anagram_checker(word_a, word_b, is_case_sensitive=False):\n",
+    "    if not is_case_sensitive:\n",
+    "        word_a = word_a.lower()\n",
+    "        word_b = word_b.lower()\n",
+    "    return sorted(word_a) == sorted(word_b)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "print(anagram_checker(\"Silent\", \"listen\", False))\n",
+    "print(anagram_checker(\"Silent\", \"listen\", True))\n",
+    "print(anagram_checker(\"Silent\", \"Listen\", True))"
+   ]
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "language_info": {
+   "name": "python"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 2
+}