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'A Midsummer Night's Dream': reviewing and refining an essay about Puck
English•Key Stage 3•'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Lesson Description
I can evaluate model paragraphs about Puck and the supernatural in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, and use this evaluation to improve my own analytical writing.
Lesson Overview
Key learning points
- Topic sentences should link to the question.
- Include multiple quotations in each paragraph from across the play.
- Consider writer’s methods when analysing quotations.
- Include relevant context to develop your analysis.
Keywords
- topic sentence
- the first sentence of a paragraph stating its main idea
- methods
- the tools a writer uses to create their work; for example, characterisation, setting, language choices
- context
- information about the time period of when a text was written; context can help us understand a text more deeply
- analysis
- in English, this means looking at a text closely and considering what it might mean and why it was written in that way
- Shakespearean comedy
- a play designed to make you laugh, often including misunderstandings and ending in marriage
Common mistakes
You must analyse every quotation at word level.
Sometimes exploring individual words can be helpful, but more often than not it makes for shallow analysis which is not helpful in answering the question. Look at 'bigger' methods than single words.
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