English A Lit

Every strong Paper 1 commentary starts the same way: you rip the text apart into its building blocks, then build it back up into an interpretation. This isn't a vague inspirational idea — it's a concrete, repeatable process you can run on any unseen text, whether it's a poem, a prose extract, or a drama scene. The goal by the end of the process is threefold: a text covered in purposeful annotations, a clear sense of the writer's overall message, and an outline of the ideas and techniques used to deliver that message.