DEADLINE
MOD 1 – FRIDAY 12
DECEMBER
MOD 2 – THURSDAY 18
DECEMBER
MOD 6 - TUESDAY 9
DECEMBER
On the deadline I’ll be conducting 1:1 interviews with every
student to check and sign off your detailed plan for the 2500 word coursework essay.
A detailed essay plan will include
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A series of paired bullet points. Each paired
bullet point represents an analytical / comparative paragraph
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Each paired bullet point must contain a key
topic that will address a feature of the main essay question – a topic sentence
in note form
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The quotation you are going to use as evidence
to support the main topic sentence
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And two or three notes showing how the quotation
can be used to support the topic sentence.
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Identify language and or literary features
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Comment on the effect of the feature on readers
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The second paired bullet point will analyse the
same key topic from the second writer you are using for your essay.
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Make analytical comments as above
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And then make comparative / contrasting comments
with the first text writer
Here is an example of a paired paragraph
A paired paragraph – detailed notes
Paragraph 1 –
Nature – farm field land managed and used for work – livelihood
quote from Follower – Heaney
‘His eye
Narrowed and angled at the ground,
Mapping the furrow exactly.’
Third person, personal pronoun ‘His’ is used to emphasise
the narrator as an observer / onlooker
Detailed descriptive writing – two pre-modifiers - ‘Narrowed
and angled’ and post-modifier adverb – ‘exactly’ used to emphasise skill
and proficiency of father
The noun ‘furrow’ – the land shaped and sculptured for the
purpose of work. Technical language
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Paragraph 2 –
Nature – farm orchard land managed and used for work – livelihood
quote from After Apple Picking – Frost
‘My long two-pointed ladder's sticking
through a tree
Toward heaven still,’
First person possessive personal pronoun, ‘My’ – indicates
ownership
Also detailed descriptive writing as Heaney – two
pre-modifiers ‘long two-pointed ladder’
Use of a verb ‘sticking’ denotes action but combined with
the adverb ‘still’ this is a static scene where work has finished but
equipment not put away
‘heaven’ – powerful Christian religious lexis, perhaps
suggests Garden of Eden, the work of harvesting is holy, spiritual, good.
Perhaps suggests death.
Both Frost and Heaney present the land as a place of work,
the work is focussed on in detail and use similar techniques
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