HL Essay: Exemplar 3 (George Monbiot)
At the time of writing (April 2020), we have published a range of materials on the work of George Monbiot. Put his name into the website's search engine and up they will pop. Just like that. We have also, to date, published two Higher Level (HL) Essays. This is the third HL essay to be published, and it is based on the essays of Monbiot. It will be useful to have students who work with this essay discuss its merits and limitations before considering the essay (again) with a teacher's comments attached. One thing teachers and students may ask is this: Where students have studied a body of work such as poems (literary texts) or journalistic essays (non-literary texts), how many should they reference if writing about them in an HL Essay? To this question, there is no one good answer. In this exemplar, the student references a number of Monbiot's essays; are they too few, too many or, like Goldilock's porridge, just right? You decide.
