👋🏽 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 essay map is built and the job each of its five lines 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.
In the exam you have about 45 minutes for each essay. It’s tempting to start writing straight away and work out your answer as you go. Then the essay follows the story, and the discuss and technique parts get squeezed in at the end.
Where you struggle is knowing what the whole essay will say before you write it. So that’s what we’ll work on today, with Twelfth Night.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
turn an essay question into a five-line essay map
choose two moments that fit the question, and pick which one gets the discuss part
choose a technique you can show in one of your moments
write your opening line and your closing line before the essay starts
do all of it in about five minutes
In the full lesson, you’ll see a plan that lists the story beside a map that answers the question. Then we’ll map three more real questions, and you’ll map a new one against the clock.
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Grab a pen. Here’s the question.