👋🏽 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 describe paragraph is built and the job each of its parts 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.
Your essay question starts by asking you to describe. Describing sounds easy, so it’s tempting to start at the top of the scene and tell everything that happens in order. By the end of the paragraph you’ve told the story, and the question is still waiting for an answer.
Where you struggle is choosing what to leave out. So that’s what we’ll work on today, with Twelfth Night.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
open on your moment, using the question’s key word
give only the details that show that key word
build short, exact quotations into your sentences
end the paragraph on the question, not on the plot
In the full lesson, you’ll see a paragraph that retells a scene beside one that describes it. Then we’ll describe three more moments for three different questions, and you’ll write one yourself.
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Grab a pen. Here’s the move.