exam technique and writing the essay

Question 1

using quotations:

Answer 1

• No marks for AO2
• Do not waste time analysing language in depth
• Just use them to illustrate the argument and show increasingly thorough knowledge of the text
  Assured/thorough knowledge and understanding of the text means… - Use the whole text (beginning, middle, end: do characters shift etc)
• Include quotes

Question 2

context:

Answer 2

• Make it relevant to the question
• Use it in the introductory paragraph
  When thinking about why a theme/character is important, what do we have to consider? Steinbeck’s intentions

Question 3

paragraphs:

Answer 3

-Use topic sentences to ensure focus is maintained on the question. We should be able to read your argument from the topic sentences without filling in the details.

Question 4

opening sentence:

Answer 4

John Steinbeck devotes his novella ‘Of Mice and Men’ to a study of the state of American society in the late 1930s, the decade following the Stock Market crash and the Great Depression by highlighting the growing fragmentation of society