The Road example topic context sentences for essay structures

Here’s another example of a key incident essay, guys.

Please read and emulate where possible.  Ask me if you’re unsure about any of it…                           Road Key Incident Essay

Work hard, troops.

MrT

Troops, several of your number have been happy to share these detailed, colourful, perceptive and beautiful annotated copies of some of the MacCaig poems.  Amazing work, carriers of the fire!  Thank you!

The Road Key Incident Essay plan

Read this article and analyse the author’s effective use of sentence structures.  In your analysis, comment on at least two instances where she has used a colon.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/07/memorialising-war-first-world-war-remember

Thought you’d find this interesting, troops.   Identify the tone/s and analyse how Mitchell creates tone.  🙂

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/nov/03/smartphones-david-mitchell-dishonesty-second-best-policy-extract

Troops, take a read of these articles about Scotland’s horrible history.  How would you describe tone in the passages?  Select examples of language which create those tones.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/29/calls-for-memorial-to-scotlands-tortured-and-executed-witches

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/travel/witch-grave-maggie-wall-scotland-518421%3famp

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/13/the-guardian-view-on-surveillance-big-brother-is-not-the-only-watcher-now

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/15/the-dominos-pizza-checker-is-just-the-beginning-workplace-surveillance-is-coming-for-you

Troops,

Creative writing first draft must be submitted by Wed 23rd Oct…

Keep working hard!  Remember, bizarre or brutally realistic are good; cliché not so good.

🙂