1. Assessment Objectives
To understand the assessment criteria

2. What skills do you need to demonstrate when writing an English literature essay?

3. Using the cards, separate the skills into columns and rows.
Difficult
Less difficult
What would the titles be for each skill?

5. Assessment objective 1
Articulate creative, informed and relevant responses to literary texts, using appropriate terminology and concepts, and coherent, accurate written expression.

6. Assessment objective 2
Demonstrate detailed critical understanding in analysing the ways in which structure, form and language shape meanings in literary texts.

7. Assessment objective 3
Explore connections and comparisons between different literary texts, informed by interpretations of other readers.

8. Assessment objective 4
Demonstrate understanding of the significance and influence of the contexts in which literary texts are written and received.

9. Essay Question
What is the significance of the opening letters? Explore with reference to form, language and structure.

10. Structuring your Paragraphs
Point: This is your thesis statement – your main point of discussion for the paragraph.
Evidence: At A Level, your evidence should be embedded and you should use shorter, precisely chosen quotes from across the text.
Explore: Detailed discussion and exploration of the features used and their affect.
Link: Make a link to another part of the text, or another sub-point that links to your main idea.
Further Evidence: Choose another piece of evidence to support your thesis.
Explore: Analyse the evidence.
Link to next paragraph: Make a connection to your next point so that your essay is fluent and your structure is coherent.

11. Model Paragraph
Read through the model paragraph with your partner and identify where they have included each stage of the ‘structuring your paragraphs’.
What is missing?

12. Paragraph Ideas
What could be the focus of your paragraphs in answering this questions?
Come up with 4 ideas:
Themes?
Character based?

13. Grade Boundaries
A = 27-30
B =
C = 20
D = 16 – 19
E = 13