👋🏽 Hi, I’m Kerry. I teach CSEC English B at Arc School: live classes each week, lesson resources, exam practice and personalised coaching for your final exams. In this lesson, pay attention to how each sentence is built around its quotation and the job each part of the sentence does. Then write your own essay in your own words. Just don’t copy my sentences into your exam answer. Your answer has to show what you think.
When you know a line well, it’s tempting to drop the whole thing into your essay on its own and move on. Then the quotation just sits there, and whoever reads your essay has to work out why it’s there.
Where you struggle is making the quotation part of your own sentence. So that’s what we’ll work on today, with Twelfth Night.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
pick the few words that prove your point
build them into a sentence that still reads correctly
copy them exactly, with a slash where a line of verse ends, and give the act and scene
say straight after what the words show about the question
In the full lesson, you’ll see a quotation dropped in beside one that’s built in. Then we’ll build three more sentences together, and you’ll fix six weak ones yourself.
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Grab a pen. Here’s the question.