How to write a top grade essay on Othello and Desdemona (A Level AQA past paper walkthrough)
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- In this video, I walk you through each step of navigating an Othello extract question by using the AQA A-Level 2017 English Literature Paper 1 Section A on Shakespeare.
The prompt states "'As lovers, Othello and Desdemona either worship or despise one another. There is no middle ground.' In light of this view, discuss how Shakespeare presents Othello's and Desdemona's attitudes towards one another in this extract and elsewhere in the play."
By the end of this video, you should gain a clear idea of how to approach this sort of extract-based question at an advanced level, and some new insights into Othello and Desdemona's relationship. So much great content geared towards helping you get top grades here (if I may say so myself!)
TIMESTAMPS:
00: 36 - What makes an 'A-Level' response different from a GCSE one?
04:01 - What are you expected to achieve?
05:56 - What are top grade students expected to achieve?
08:26 - Past paper walkthrough
10:15 - Step-by-step overview of how to approach an extract-based A-Level question
19:28 - Ideas for this question
37:20 - Walkthrough recap
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Thanks for your hard work, I have my Lit exam tomorrow and your videos are top notch
Same bro
perfect timing i have a ppe next week and ive been struggling to make the change from GSCE writing to A level writing, thank you so much !!
Yes the leap can be challenging at first, but it just takes time to get used to, and of course, applying the right strategy is important too :) You're so welcome and I'm glad the video helps you.
Hi I'm currently doing gcse othello and kinda struggling, do you have any tips for a 15 mark extract and 25 mark essay?
Thank you so much for this! Got my first A* after watching :D
Woot! Love to hear that, and well done on the hard work :)
Thank you so much! This is so in depth and well explained!
I’m loving this stuff Jen. Thanks. I’m a baggy shorts Aussie who never had the opportunity for college - and this is really great.
Thank you! I'm so happy to hear that these videos have been intellectually rewarding for you :) Stay tuned for more x
watching this the morning of my exam - thank you !
very helpful, thankyou Jen
This was SO helpful, it would be great if you could also do a vid on unseen poetry a -level 😭😭😭
Thanks for watching! Actually, all the unseen poetry skills I cover in this video are all applicable to A-Level as well: ruclips.net/video/lSqcfPZ9V_w/видео.html
Your a life saver,
thank you!! this is awesome
You are so welcome! I hope this helps you with levelling up your Othello revision :)
Thank you :)
this is so helpful thank u sm
😘😘😘
Could you do a comparison video of Handmaid tale and Frankenstein video like this please also Frakenstein context.
Thank you so much.
You are so welcome!
Hey how should we structure our essay, (should a for and against argument be in the same paragraph)
hi!! do you have anything for john keats?? i struggle with section c a lot
I've written a couple of blog posts analysing Keats' poetry, perhaps you could check them out here: hyperbolit.com/2021/02/28/what-is-an-ode-reading-keats-ode-on-melancholy-to-find-out/ and hyperbolit.com/2020/09/02/how-to-read-romantic-poetry-i-william-wordsworths-tintern-abbey-john-keats-to-autumn/
Thanks!
Wow thank you so much! I appreciate this massively 🥰 ❤️
how do I add in critical analysis when comparing Gatsby to Othello?
Take a look at my video on how to incorporate lit crit in analysis? ruclips.net/video/cFwgZAPScjM/видео.html The approach is similar whether it's single text or comparative.
omg i have my exam tmr and i’m peeing!! ive been binging and hoping i can remember all this 🥴
Thank you
You're so welcome x
Thank you for the video! how many paragraphs do you think we should aim to write?
You're welcome! In general, I don't like prescribing a set number of paragraphs for students to follow (especially not at A-Level, where essay writing should be a much more organic, personal process). That said, and this probably sounds obvious, what you'll absolutely need to make sure your essay has are an intro spelling out a clear line of argument (your thesis statement), main body section which unpacks the details related to the thesis with analysis of textual evidence, contextual points and critical / theoretical frameworks, and a conclusion.
I am taking Year 1 and Year 2 A level Literature this year in my final year of college. I switched from Film Studies and now I’m sitting my exams this summer
Best of luck! You'll do great with consistent reading, writing and practice x
Hii. Could u please do some poetry videos from the Cambridge o level syllabus?😊
What poems are you referring to? I can't do entire videos on specific poems, especially if they're niche. But if it's a poem/poet that lots of students study globally, then perhaps I can consider for future videos!
@@JenChan Margaret Atwood, ‘The City Planners’
Boey Kim Cheng, ‘The Planners’
Thom Gunn, ‘The Man with Night Sweats’
Robert Lowell, ‘Night Sweat’
Edward Thomas, ‘Rain’
Anne Stevenson, ‘The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument’
Tony Harrison, ‘From Long Distance’
W H Auden, ‘Funeral Blues’
Thomas Hardy, ‘He Never Expected Much’
Fleur Adcock, ‘The Telephone Call’
Peter Porter, ‘A Consumer’s Report’
Judith Wright, ‘Request To A Year’
Charles Tennyson Turner, ‘On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book’
Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Ozymandias’
Stevie Smith, ‘Away, Melancholy’
Elizabeth Thomas (‘Corinna’), ‘The Forsaken Wife’
Philip Bourke Marston, ‘After’
Algernon Charles Swinburne, ‘A Leave-Taking’
Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘I Find No Peace’
James Joyce, ‘I Hear an Army’
Charlotte Mew, ‘Rooms’
Robert Browning, ‘Love in a Life’
Lauris Edmond, ‘Waterfall’
Mary Monck (‘Marinda’), ‘Verses Written on Her Death-bed at Bath to Her Husband in London’
A R D Fairburn, ‘Rhyme of the Dead Self’
Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples’
Derek Walcott, ‘Nearing Forty’
Elinor Morton Wylie, ‘Now Let No Charitable Hope’
Alexander Pope, ‘From An Essay on Criticism’
Henry Wotton, ‘The Character of a Happy Life’
Margaret Atwood, ‘The City Planners’
Boey Kim Cheng, ‘The Planners’
Thom Gunn, ‘The Man with Night Sweats’
Robert Lowell, ‘Night Sweat’
Edward Thomas, ‘Rain’
Anne Stevenson, ‘The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument’
Tony Harrison, ‘From Long Distance’
W H Auden, ‘Funeral Blues’
Thomas Hardy, ‘He Never Expected Much’
Fleur Adcock, ‘The Telephone Call’
Peter Porter, ‘A Consumer’s Report’
Judith Wright, ‘Request To A Year’
Charles Tennyson Turner, ‘On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book’
Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Ozymandias’
Stevie Smith, ‘Away, Melancholy’
Elizabeth Thomas (‘Corinna’), ‘The Forsaken Wife’
Philip Bourke Marston, ‘After’
Algernon Charles Swinburne, ‘A Leave-Taking’
Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘I Find No Peace’
James Joyce, ‘I Hear an Army’
Charlotte Mew, ‘Rooms’
Robert Browning, ‘Love in a Life’
Lauris Edmond, ‘Waterfall’
Mary Monck (‘Marinda’), ‘Verses Written on Her Death-bed at Bath to Her Husband in London’
A R D Fairburn, ‘Rhyme of the Dead Self’
Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples’
Derek Walcott, ‘Nearing Forty’
Elinor Morton Wylie, ‘Now Let No Charitable Hope’
Alexander Pope, ‘From An Essay on Criticism’
Henry Wotton, ‘The Character of a Happy Life’
Thank you so much these are so helpful ❤my grades really have gone up by your tips🫶
So pleased to hear that! Well done on the improvement and keep up the good work xxx
Hey how should we structure our essay, (should a for and against argument be in the same paragraph)