by melaniewp | Nov 11, 2022 | A Streetcar Named Desire, A-Level English, Carol Ann Duffy, Caryl Churchill, How to Write an Essay, IB English, The World's Wife, Top Girls
I often use model essays with students to help them to develop their own essay writing style. Here are some examples of model essays that I share with students I have worked with.Get in touch if you would like to work with me to improve your essay writing style.The...
by melaniewp | Jun 15, 2013 | AQA, Carol Ann Duffy, GCSE, Model Essays, OCR, Poetry
Carol Ann Duffy is a contemporary poet, born in 1955, writing right now. She is one of the main poets in the OCR anthology, and also features in the WJEC and AQA anthologies for GCSE. She is the Poet Laureate and Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester...
by melaniewp | Jun 4, 2013 | AQA, Carol Ann Duffy, GCSE, Medusa, Model Essays, Moon on the Tides, OCR, Poetry
In ‘Medusa’, Carol Ann Duffy creates a personification of jealousy that flickers from mythical re-imagining, through metaphor to a vividly specific instance of ‘Love gone bad.’ The language of the first person narrator is violent, mixing...
by melaniewp | May 15, 2013 | Carol Ann Duffy, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Quick Draw, Valentine
OK, brace yourself, I’ve done a lot of analysis on essay technique in this one: on what I’ve done and why. It’s a request. The requestee wanted to know which bits were especially sophisticated and perceptive and what would make this essay an A*. Bits in courier are my...
by melaniewp | Apr 30, 2013 | A Mother in a Refugee Camp, Carol Ann Duffy, Chinua Achebe, IGCSE, Model Essays, Poetry, War Photogapher
Comparison of ‘Mother in a Refugee Camp’ by Chinua Achebe and ‘War Photographer’ by Carol Ann Duffy.It’s interesting how closely Duffy’s poem echoes the themes of the non-fiction text A Passage to Africa.Words like ‘tenderness’ juxtaposed with ‘soon’...
by melaniewp | Apr 24, 2013 | Carol Ann Duffy, Exam Essays, GCSE, Havisham, IGCSE, Model Essays, Poetry
Essay Question Set:Explore how relationships are presented in Havisham.In Havisham, we see love gone wrong. Carol Ann Duffy re-imagines Dicken’s eternal Spinster in this dramatic first person monologue where Miss Havisham makes exclamations –...
