Your assessment task for Life of Pi will take place in the week beginning Monday 1 September. You should be prepared to complete this task during our class on Tuesday 2 September, periods 6 and 7.
This will be a closed-book text-response essay. You will be given a choice of two topics and will need to respond to ONE of them, basing your answer on our study of the novel Life of Pi. You will not be allowed to bring in any notes (including your novel) and you will not be given the topics ahead of time.
You need to be preparing for this assessment task by:
- Revising notes from our work in class;
- Completing practice essays (if you have not completed either of the 2 homework essays, you should aim to do so immediately);
- Gathering quotes and examples from Life of Pi based around the broad themes we have studied in class: (1) faith, belief and imagination; (2) survival; (3) stories and storytelling.
- Create flash-cards to revise key quotes, ideas or examples. Remember that you will not be able to bring your novel or any notes into the assessment task.
Life of Pi Essay Plan/Template Response:
Below you can find a planned response to the essay topic: ‘Life of Pi is a story of survival’. Discuss. If contains a sample introduction, body paragraph and takes you through the process of planning an full essay response.
Use this template and complete it by answering the questions that accompany each sample paragraph and writing the missing second and third body paragraphs and conclusion:
Life of Pi Sample Essays:
Below you can find some sample essays written by students on Life of Pi. With each response, you should pay close attention to:
- How ideas and arguments are developed throughout the response;
- How evidence is used to support and illustrate these ideas, connecting them back to the text;
- How structure is used to add cohesion to a response and tie ideas together;
- Colour code each element of the essay (contention, arguments, topic sentences, explanation, evidence, linking sentences) to see how they develop and fit together in a structured manner.
It would also be a good idea to revise the structure of a text response essay using the work that we completed back in term one, including how to incorporate quotes.
Sample essays on Life of Pi :
