2018 P2 HL (The House of Bernarda Alba and Hedda Gabler)
When students get a Paper 2 exemplar that isn’t about their texts, they sometimes complain: How can I learn how to write a Paper 2 if the example you give me isn’t about texts we’ve studied? That’s valid, to a point. What they are missing, of course, are the benefits of reading and learning from an essay on texts they don’t know or haven’t read. Because they don’t know the plot, they can (hopefully) parse out the...