While the scope and nature of the essays you will begin writing next week are not as broad and sophisticated as the essay below, you may still be interested in how a student who achieved an outstanding mark in GCSE went about discussing Romeo and Juliet.
What you might want to observe is how they blended their own ideas with the facts of the play, and how they developed their point as they went on.
You will also see how an effective essay is structured, which is definitely something that is a large part of the expectations for your essay writing this year.