Is Macbeth a coward or a man whose conscience won't let him kill Duncan?

That's the kind of question grade 9 essays start from.

But it's the kind of question most students don't ask before writing an essay on, say, bravery. Instead they start with 'what context can I include?'

In this newsletter, I walk through how to write a grade 9 essay on bravery so that context informs argument and it doesn’t read as an add-on.