👋🏽 Hi, I'm Kerry. I teach CSEC English B at Arc School: live classes each week, lesson resources, exam practice and personalised coaching for the May–June 2027 exams. In this lesson, pay attention to how each scene is chosen. 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.
Before you write a word of a Twelfth Night essay, you have to choose your scenes. A scene you remember well can still be the wrong one for the question.
Each question tells you who has to be in your scenes and how many you need. So we'll start there, list the scenes that might work and test each one.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
find the characters and the numbers a question asks for
list the scenes that might answer it
test each scene and drop the ones that don't fit
explain your choice of scene in two or three sentences
spot when a scene you know well is a poor choice
The full lesson works through a real question from start to finish. You'll see which scenes I'd use, which I'd leave out and why, and then you'll choose scenes for a new question yourself.
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Grab a pen. Here's the question.