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Improving an essay on Prospero's power over Caliban in 'The Tempest'

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Improving an essay on Prospero's power over Caliban in 'The Tempest'

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Having accurate spelling, punctuation and grammar allows your work to be clearly understood.
  2. Using synonyms for key words in the question shows a secure understanding of the task.
  3. Responding to feedback helps to elevate your work.

Common misconception

That proofreading is a waste of time.

Proofreading helps you to spot errors that might hinder the readers' understanding of your work.

Keywords

  • Grammar - Grammar refers to the rules about how words change and combine to make accurate sentences.

  • Elevate - To elevate something means to improve it.

  • Editing - Editing is the process of making changes to an answer to improve it.

  • Ambitious - If something is ambitious then it takes a lot of skill and effort to be successful.

If the students have written an essay on 'The Tempest' then they can apply these skills to that essay.
Teacher tip

Equipment

You may want a copy of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' for this lesson.

Content guidance

  • Depiction or discussion of peer pressure or bullying

Supervision

Adult supervision recommended

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which piece of punctuation needs to go at the end of a sentence?
comma
Correct answer: full-stop
semi-colon
Q2.
What does it mean to edit your work?
Plan your work.
Write your work.
Correct answer: Review and improve your work.
Q3.
What is the punctuation error in this sentence: 'Calibans afraid of Prospero.'?
Correct answer: There should be an apostrophe after 'Caliban'.
There should be a comma after 'Caliban'.
There should be a semi-colon after 'Caliban'.
Q4.
What is a synonym?
Correct answer: A word that has a similar meaning.
A word that has an opposite meaning.
A word that sounds the same.
Q5.
What does a tense disagreement mean?
Correct answer: Where one part of the sentence is in past tense and the other in present tense.
Where the sentence is in the same tense.
Where both parts of the sentence are in the past tense.
Where a comma has been used incorrectly.
Q6.
What is a homophone?
A word with a similar meaning.
Correct answer: A word with the same sound.
A word with the opposite sound.

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6 Questions

Q1.
What do you always need at the start of a sentence?
Correct answer: a capital letter
the word 'the'
a name
a lower-case letter
Q2.
If something is ambitious then it means...
Correct answer: It involves a lot of effort.
It doesn't involve a lot of effort.
It's easy to do.
Q3.
To elevate your work means to...
write it
Correct answer: improve it
make it worse
review your work
Q4.
What is grammar?
The way ambitious words are written and spelled.
Correct answer: The rules about how words change and combine to make accurate sentences.
Words with a similar meaning that are easy to muddle up when spelling.
Reviewing and improving your work.
Q5.
Which is the correct word for this sentence: 'Prospero and Caliban's harsh words shows relationship is one of animosity.'?
there
Correct answer: their
they're
Q6.
Which of the following would be an appropriate synonym for 'acting meanly'?
Correct answer: acting cruelly
exploits
enslaves
acting judiciously