HSC Advanced English Module B: Henry IV, Part I Sample Essay and Essay Analysis

This is a three-part resource for students undertaking the NSW HSC Advanced English Module B: Critical Study of a Text.

1. A generic essay plan shows students how to compose an essay suitable for Stage 6, progressing them from the simpler PEEL/TEAL models of Stage 4 and 5.

2. A sample essay for the prescribed text, Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part I, answers the 2019 HSC question: Comedy steps into the path of history and is crushed.

To what extent does this align with your understanding of Henry IV, Part I?

1. There is also a second copy of the essay, marked up to show how it follows the plan, and with five short questions which require students to engage critically with the essay and its form.