YEAR 13 LESSON SEVEN [21st Oct 11]: Homework.

This lesson was a response to the recent essays. The essays were poor and lacked precise detail therefore the whole aim of this two hour session was to ensure that students are aware of how a detailed response is created. The ArchdeaconOfNonsense attempted to model a series of detailed and appropriate paragraphs on the whiteboard to offer specific examples of appropriate critical analysis.When constructing a written response all students must...:

• Ensure that the argument is coherent and precise. RESPECT LANGUAGE. Too often the Shelley essays were general and ambiguous and were phrased in such a crude manner that it was very difficult to comprehend the argument being offered in the response.
• All opinion must be supported with textual reference. Students must then clearly explain how this use of textual reference supports their view. This is a crucial moment in any Literature response.
• Ensure that the response is engaging the requirements of the question.
• Always consider author's aim. Follow my paragraph structure. The final section of each paragraph should be an engaging fusion of author's aim and question focus.
• Realise that the gothic is an extremely ambiguous genre. There are certain thematic concerns that are associated with the gothic genre, such as isolation and alienation, and certain visual motifs that carry symbolic significance, such as the darkness of night being used as a dramatic backdrop for the narrative action, but is is very difficult to categorise this genre in simplistic terms.

THIS WAS AN IMPORTANT LESSON. ALL ESSAYS NEED TO BE PRECISE AND COHERENT.

HOMEWORK: All students that did not achieve a C grade in the last essay need to construct a three paragraph response to this essay. Note my comments on your original essays and refer to the class notes we created today. Furthermore, refer to my essay structure. If you lot were D grade students working to the best of your ability, the essay grades would not be an issue. However, this class is capable of producing much more impressive work than the quality being presented to me in the essays I marked last week.

Students also need to read the whole of the novel. All students need to complete their reading of Frankenstein.