Tsar Alexander II

Preliminary

Lesson plan

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3
Essay
Alexander II
Revolutionary
Groups
Revolutionary
Groups
Alexander III
Industrialisation

Week 4

Week 5


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Modern History

Essay on Alexander II

This is an online scaffold to help you write the essay below.

Essay Topic: Assess the success of the social and political reforms introduced by Alexander II during his reign.

OR

"Alexander II committed a great fault, and brought about his own ruin, by raising so many hopes which later he did not satisfy". (P. Kropotkin) Do you agree with this statement? Support your opinion with relevant information.

This webpage will prompt you to draft a clear statement and create a plan for your essay. To use this scaffold, you need:

  • a topic, which you have.
  • opinions about the topic - what do you think?
  • some reasons for your opinion - give supporting evidence
  • some reasons why other people might disagree - give evidence

Instructions
  1. Answer the following questions in short phrases (not full sentences).

  2. Important: Do not use fullstops (.) at the end or capital letters at the beginning of the phrases you write.

    Use the words given in Hints the first time. Later you can change them to suit your plan.

  3. Click the "Build summary" button when you're finished.

  4. A window will pop open with your Summary statement of your answer.

  5. Go back and adjust your answers to smooth out the summary until it makes sense to you and expresses your opinions clearly. Clicking on the "Build a smmary" button again will update your statement to show yout changes.

  6. When you are happy with the summary statement, click on "Make an outline".

What's the topic you are writing about?

What's your main opinion on this topic?

Note: use the topic somewhere in this opinion statement to make sure you're keeping to the question.

What's the strongest argument supporting your opinion?

What's a second good argument that supports your opinion?

What's the main argument against your opinion?

What's a possible title for your Essay? Keep is brief.

When you feel your summary statement reflects your answer to the question, you can create a quick outline by clicking the button below.


Print the outline (press Control P) and use it as a guide to work on your essay offline.

Remember it is a computer generated guide, so you need to make adjustments to suit your style.


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