Assignment Details

Lady Macbeth - FIRST DRAFT

2024-25

10B English

Date Due

March 24, 2025, 4 p.m.

Additional Info
Well done for all your hard work planning your essays - this is a mountain to climb, but well worth the time investment.

Please use the writing template (Content Library) to draft your piece. Try and keep as close to the word count as possible on this first draft, if not under, to give you wiggle room with the final draft in June.

Deadline: Monday 24th March. Please bring a hard copy to the lesson and submit via email (Word document attached with the file name Conway_Macbeth_initial/surname_first draft).

Top tips
  • I have added some slightly more detailed guidance for the introduction and conclusion on the planner at the end of the coursework booklet (Content Library).
  • Make sure your topic sentences are clear and broad enough that you can look at different aspects within the paragraph - you don't want to hem yourself in with an idea that is overly specific. The topic sentence must explicitly link to the question, therefore use key words from the question: 'powerful' or 'fiend-like'.
  • Aim to analyse 2-3 things per quotation, but keep this concise and avoid waffling at all costs.
  • If possible, look for an alternative reading of a quotation, but choose wisely as you do not have the word count to do this for all of them.
  • In each paragraph, you must have at least one piece of context, explicitly linked to the exact moment in the play you are discussing, and consider how this affects the audience's interpretation.
  • Use plenty of moderated/tentative language (perhaps, might, possible, etc.).
  • Drip feed dramatic terminology into your essay (e.g. hamartia, catharsis, peripetia) - see content library for terminology list.