👋🏽 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 opening, link and close is built and the job each one does in holding the essay together. 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.
It’s easy to treat the opening, the links and the ending as extras you add around the real paragraphs. Then the opening says one thing, the paragraphs drift away from it, and the ending repeats the opening word for word or says something new.
Where you struggle is keeping one answer running from the first sentence to the last. So that’s what we’ll work on today, with Twelfth Night.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
write an opening that answers the question straight away and sets out the essay
start a paragraph with a sentence that carries the question’s key word
end with a close that answers the question again, sharper, with nothing new
check all three by reading only those sentences
In the full lesson, you’ll see one essay’s weak frame beside a strong one. Then we’ll frame three more real questions, and you’ll frame one yourself.
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Grab a pen. Here’s the question.