Hamilton (HLE)

The following HL Essay aims to answer the line of inquiry: 

How does choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler create the 'Bullet' character in the musical Hamilton to help convey Lin-Manuel Miranda's message that one should seize the day and make the most of life?

Read the essay carefully. Apply the HLE assessment criteria and discuss the marks you would award the script before reading the examiner's marks and comments. How different were your marks and comments from the examiner's marks and comments? What improvements would you make to this essay to achieve better results?

HL Essay: Hamilton
Examiner's comments and marks
Assessment

You can write your HL Essay on a literary work or non-literary body of work. Is 'Hamilton' literary or non-literary? The way the student has approached the text, by focusing on the choreography, suggests it is treated as a non-literary body of work. By focusing on the script and lyrics only, you could treat 'Hamilton' as a literary work. Notice how the student has structured her paragraphers using the TEASER method from the HLE Builder. 

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