Significance of Shakespeare and the English Literary Heritage
Controlled Assessment Summer 2010
Outline of Teaching Approach
Week 1
- Introduce question, assessment criteria and grade descriptions
- Emphasise realities of controlled assessment
- Examine context of play/Elizabethan life
- Examine conflict, and conflict in the play
Week 2
- Looking at writing an introduction
- Consider points to make
- Model approach
- Drafting introduction
Week 3
- Examine conflict in the play leading up to Act 3 sc. 1
- Look at the Prologue, Act 1 sc.1, Act 1 sc.5 etc.
- Model approach
- Drafting 1st section of essay
Week 4
- Begin looking at 1st third of Act 3 sc.1 in detail
- Discuss and annotate copy of the scene
- Model approach
- Drafting next section of essay
Weeks 5 & 6
- Similar approach as per week 4 for next two sections of scene
- Writing conclusion – model and draft
Week 7
Final preparation and then do Controlled Assessment
