Guiding Questions: Antigone and Home Fire

-In what ways does the author offer insights and challenges into religious and cultural practices?

-To what extent does the impact of the text shape our implicit perception of troubling world?

-How does understanding of context (social/political/historical/cultural) influence or shape our understanding of the text and its implications?

-How do elements of the contemporary novel shape our understanding of concepts within the text?

HL Practice Essay Feedback

General Feedback:

1) Write the question and focus on it. Link to Readers, Writers and Texts as well as Time and Space.

2) Introduce your text and ensure there is a common thread throughout the essay. Also, be selective, focus on the writer and don’t retell the story.

3) Be concise. Quote properly and effectively.

4) Ensure to have both literary and topic based sources. Let the experts speak for you

 

Specific Feedback:

  1. Be a critical reader of your secondary sources- don’t just take them as fat. Challenge/support them.
  2. Ensure you format quotations consistently and accurately

Also note: Just page number and year for actual text being written about (in text citations). When selecting secondary reading, go literary, not just historical.

Goal: Challenge and support secondary sources and ensure the sources are more literary and less historical.

 

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