Unit 6: The HL Essay
Topic 6.9: Grade-7 exemplar Questions
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Quick warm-up — what a grade-7 HL essay looks like
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Answer on the grade-7 HL essay. (Exam-style practice.)
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Let's build it up, one step at a time — applying the grade-7 HL-essay moves to a new work
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HL-ESSAY CAPSTONE. Using the original work below, plan a FULL grade-7 HL essay, using the exemplar's moves.
Produce: (1) a focused line of inquiry; (2) a thesis; (3) three DEVELOPING body-paragraph points (each adding a layer) with the choices you'd analyse; (4) a conclusion payoff. (In the real HL essay you write 1,200–1,500 words on your own studied work.)
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