A Level Gothic Literature - Guide to writing a comparative thesis

A 3-page guide to writing a comparative thesis paragraph for the A Level Gothic Literature unit. The resource includes:

1. An explanation of what a thesis is.
2. The golden rules of thesis-writing.
3. A model thesis paragraph comparing The Tell-Tale Heart with The Fall of the House of Usher, focusing on the extent to which they are Gothic texts.
4. Two pages of sentence stems for essay-writing - these are useful for all Literature essays, not just Gothic.

I used this resource as the basis for a lesson in which students worked in pairs to write their own comparative thesis on a different pair of Gothic texts, using the model and rules for guidance, first getting them to read the model and articulate what made it an effective opening paragraph. Alternatively, if your students have studied these texts, they could write the rest of the essay, using the thesis paragraph as a road map.

*Please note, if you have purchased my 'Essay Writing Guide for A Level and GCSE', the sentence stems in this resource are the same as in that.