I'm an English teacher with 18 years teaching experience in the state and independent sectors. I've held TLRs for KS3 and KS5, am a GCSE examiner and have worked in education research and development. All my resources have been successfully tried and tested in the classroom.
8 resources for 4 lessons helping students prepare for writing comparative exam essays on The Handmaid's Tale and Frankenstein for the new Edexcel AS Lit spec Paper 2 Prose. I have also included differentiation ideas for many of the activities which can be adapted depending on the size of your class. Student responses to all activities and resources were very positive as were the timed essays written afterwards. I have also included the mark sheet I staple to the front of student essays where I highlight where they have met the AOs and issue to students to help them mark example essays. This has really helped students understand the mark scheme (using the Edexcel wording) and what they need to include in their own essays.
The PDF Edexcel Lit prose exemplars pack is not included, but I have included the hyperlink (beneath slide 3 of the Writing a comparative essay PowerPoint) so you can download it.
This is great. However, where are you getting the total mark of 44 for the essay from? On the sample material provided by Edexcel, it says 40?
ccideas
8 years ago
Thank you for your feedback. <br />
These resources were produced for my AS Lit class last year. For the new Edexcel AS Paper 2 Prose, marks are out of 44 (36 for AO1, AO2 and AO3 combined, plus 8 for AO4); they are out of 40 for the Paper 2 Prose A Level. So on the Edexcel sample AS Lit Paper 2 Prose material the example essay got 40/44 (33/36 for AO1, AO2 + AO3, plus 7/8 for AO4). <br />
I hope this answers your question.
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Great resources - although which order do you teach them in?
ccideas
8 years ago
Thank you very much for the feedback, James. I uploaded the resources in teaching order: Connections (connecting themes); Connections 2 (more connections) plus the Venn diagram activity; Writing a comparative essay (the one with the 'what's the best way to write a comparative essay?' starter) and with students marking the example essay using the mark scheme; Example essay questions lesson could be done before the timed essay or after it. I hope that helps. <br />
Please do contact me if you have any other queries.
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