👋🏽 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 judgement is built and what backs it up. Then write your own paragraph in your own words. Just don’t copy my sentences into your exam answer. Your answer has to show what you think.
Once you’ve named a technique and said what it does, it’s hard to know what to write next. “This is very effective” feels like the end of the paragraph.
There is more to say, and it’s the part that shows what you think. The next step is to judge the technique, which means giving your opinion of the writer’s choice. So that’s what we’ll work on today, with the text behind every opinion.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
say how well a technique works, and point to the words that make it work
suggest why the writer might have chosen it at that moment
say what the scene would lose without it
give your own response, marked as your view
link one moment to the whole play or novel
In the full lesson, we’ll take one real Animal Farm question and put a weak paragraph beside a strong one. Then we’ll judge two more techniques in Twelfth Night, and you’ll write your own on the text you choose.
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Grab a pen. Here’s the question.