Component 01 Question 3 (12 marks, AO2) on a named section of Text 2: exploring how the writer uses language and structure to present a person, an experience or an idea, with relevant subject terminology.
Working through the lines in order and keeping to them, since comments on other lines earn nothing, and covering both language and structure so that the answer can reach the higher levels.
The worked example uses two linked texts about hard journeys to a long-sought goal, both printed in the lesson: Text 1, from Isabella Bird's letters 'A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains' (1879), on her climb of Long's Peak, and Text 2, from Captain Scott's journal for the days in January 1912 when his party reached the South Pole.
What separates the levels, in our own words, and a model answer with the level and mark an examiner would give, and why.
A weaker and a stronger answer to the same task side by side, with what lifts the weaker one to the next level.
Sentence starters for the question and a short checklist of the steps, for students aiming at Grade 4 and above.
