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The grade-7 HL-essay shape?
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Focused line of inquiry + thesis → developed body → conclusion with a payoff.
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What does the introduction do?
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States the focused line of inquiry and an arguable thesis.
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How does the body work?
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Each paragraph builds the argument through analysed, embedded evidence.
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What lifts an HL essay to grade 7?
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A sharp thesis, development, analysed evidence, a payoff — in academic prose.
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Memorise wording or moves?
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Moves — your essay is on your own work.
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In this exemplar, apology is presented as…
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Inherited female self-diminishment — a taught posture of self-erasure.
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How does the argument develop here?
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Absurd apologies → the wordless inheritance → the spatial shrinking metaphor.
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The conclusion's payoff?
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The real subject is the transmission of self-erasure between generations of women.
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Which criteria does the exemplar hit?
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All four: A, B, C, D.
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Summary vs grade 7?
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Grade 7 analyses choices and develops an argument; summary retells.
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