A site to share my resources for secondary English teaching.
This is a lesson borne out of a need to give back a mock exam essay to my Year 11 class.
The focus is on trying to avoid students simply listing a series of events or characters who relate to the theme and to develop an awareness of the level of objective analysis required in writing an essay such as this.
I hope it might be helpful.
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