Literature Exemplar Essay Openings

My top set were keen to have some advice about how to write an introduction to their Literature Essays. As I don’t like to teach by rote, I said no initially. But then after some consideration, I came up with these - the lesson that followed was fun as students played around with writing their most impressive introductions. The exemplars helped them to identify that they needed to adopt a ‘writing voice’ and bring together their knowledge/ideas/response to the question in a purposeful and worthwhile way. Included are ‘An Inspector Calls’, ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ and ‘Romeo and Juliet’.