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Annotated HL Essay exemplar 16: The Poisonwood Bible

Monday 24 June 2024

This week we have added another HL essay exemplar, a response to Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, along with some annotations that highlight the essay's strengths as well as areas that could be improved. 

The essay, annotations and teacher's comments and marks can be found on the page linked below:

Annotated HL Essay exemplar 16: The Poisonwood Bible

This HL essay is a response to Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, a novel about the Price family, missionaries who travel to the Congo in 1959. The essay is a good one overall thanks to a focused...

 Further sample HL essays can be found from this page:

HL essay: sample responses

Sample HL essay responsesLinked from this page are some Higher Level essay sample responses with teacher marks and comments. We will be looking to add more examples, covering a range of different questions...

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