Pupil outcome: I can use model essays to identify areas of strength and weakness to improve my own writing. Key learning points: - Using a success criteria to look at model essays is a good way to understand and embed the expectations of...

Pupil outcome: I can evaluate sample responses to an essay question and use them to help me write my own comparative response. Key learning points: - Comparative introductions should give equal weighting to both poems and explore the big...

Pupil outcome: I can use effective strategies to revise and improve an essay. Key learning points: - Topic sentences need to be clear and linked to the question. - Main and supporting quotations from the text are used to justify...

Pupil outcome: I can develop an extended response on the character of Squealer. Key learning points: - When analysing characters it is important to acknowledge they are a construct. - Commenting on characterisation with reference to...

Pupil outcome: I can write a sophisticated and convincing extended response and then evaluate and improve it. Key learning points: - If given an extract in your question, at least one of your ideas needs to come from the extract. - When...

Pupil outcome: I can explain the significance of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. Key learning points: - Truman was concerned that high levels of poverty would allow communism to spread more easily in post-war Europe. - The...

Pupil outcome: I can understand the expectations of a comparative response and use them to evaluate and rewrite model responses. Key learning points: - Evaluating model responses with a specific checklist can help improve your own...

Pupil outcome: I can identify how model answers meet the ambitious success criteria. Key learning points: - Excellent descriptions and narratives will focus on describing details, rather than trying to write too much - Figurative...

Pupil outcome: I can use the simple past, the present perfect and present tense + depuis to describe past and ongoing events in the life of an immigrant. Key learning points: - The perfect tense and present tense + depuis can usefully be...