Julie Tagg February 6, 2024 Three types of story settings Writing different types of settings requires attention to detail, atmosphere, and the specific needs of your story. Here’s how to write three common types of settings: Realistic Setting: Research: Conduct thorough research to ensure accuracy and authenticity in depicting real-world locations. This includes details such… Read More Types of setting in a novel or short story
Julie Tagg February 6, 2024 The setting of a story refers to the time, place, and overall environment in which the events of the narrative unfold. It includes details such as the geographical location, historical period, social context, and the atmosphere or mood of the story. The setting serves as a backdrop against which the… Read More What is the setting in a story?
Julie Tagg Teachers who intend to utilize the 5 E model should understand that this framework is best suited for units that span two to three weeks. It is essential to plan each stage of the model to incorporate one or more lessons. The 5E Model enables students to employ inquiry-based methods to link new… Read More Planning the 5E Model
The 5 E model of instruction is an inquiry-based learning approach that enables students to build knowledge and meaning from their experiences. It encourages students to ask questions, determine which information will enhance their understanding, and engage in self-assessment. Fast Facts: 5 E Instructional Model The constructivist model of learning, known as the 5 E… Read More What is the 5E Model of Instruction?
In summary: the basic essay format consists of – an introduction, – body paragraphs, and – a conclusion. The introduction grabs the reader’s attention and introduces the main claim or thesis statement. The body paragraphs develop the main points of the thesis statement, providing evidence and support for each point. Each paragraph includes a topic… Read More Basic Essay Format
What is dialogue? It is the words that characters use in a story. It is also called conversations between the characters. Dialogue is vital to the story as it shows the readers thoughts, ideas, and emotions. It gives the reader an insight into the events of the story. Good dialogue is important and should… Read More How to use dialogue effectively in stories and novels
Julie Tagg January 25, 2024 Report A report is a collection of information on a specific subject or topic. It is an account of an event, incident, or problem. It is aimed at a particular audience and serves a specific purpose. Purpose of a Report: Reports are written: To present information on a subject or… Read More Report Writing
Julie Tagg January 25, 2024 A paragraph is a group of sentences that focus on one main idea. A paragraph is made of four elements: topic sentence sentences that support the topic sentence explanation of the sentences that support the topic sentences, and concluding sentence ExampleTopic sentence/main idea: Saturn is the most beautiful planet.Supporting sentences: Saturn… Read More Paragraph Writing
Julie Tagg – Think and Write for CSEC English A and B January 25, 2024 The School Based Assessment (SBA) (Paper 3/1) portfolio requires that the candidates create an individual portfolio on an issue/topic/ theme or event that is current in the society. Candidates will work in groups. The topic is selected as a group. The topic… Read More CSEC SBA – Outline
By Julie Tagg Date: January 22, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes Begin with an idea that is appealing or one that will hold the interest of the reader. Therefore, think about a concept or idea that inspires you or brings out your passion. Your characters are vital to your story. Each character should… Read More Steps to writing an engaging story (novel)
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Title Available on Amazon and Kindle TO SOURCE THIS STUDY GUIDE” LINK TO PAPERBACK : https://a.co/d/1ECIpLm A Comprehensive Study Guide to Analyzing the CSEC English B Poems for 2018 – 2027: CSEC English Literature Paperback – January 19, 2024 BY Julie Tagg and Mac’s Easy Lessons Kindle URL: https://a.co/d/j3Qb2sm
The growing idleness of summer grass With its frail kites of furious butterflies Requests the lemonade of simple praise In scansion gentler than my hammock swings And rituals no more upsetting than a Black maid shaking linen as she sings The plain notes of some Protestant hosanna— Since I lie idling from the thought in… Read More A Lesson for this Sunday by Derek Walcott
Bridge, September 3, 1802 – William Wordsworth Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open… Read More Sonnet Composed Upon Westminister
I watch him set up easel, Both straddling precariously A corner of the twisted, climbing Mountain track A tireless humming-bird, his brush Dips, darts, hovers now here, now there, Where puddles of pigment Bloom in the palette’s wild small garden. The mountains pose for him In a family group Dignified, self-conscious, against the wide blue… Read More Landscape Painter, Jamaica (for Albert Huie) by Vivian Virtue
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow, And soonest… Read More “Death, be not proud” (Holy Sonnet 10) by John Donne
The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it will be true. I wonder if it’s that simple? I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this college on the hill above Harlem. I am… Read More Theme for English B by Langston Hughes
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful ‚ The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have… Read More Analysis of Mirror by Sylvia Plath
From the west Clouds come hurrying with the wind Turning sharply Here and there Like a plague of locusts Whirling, Tossing up things on its tail Like a madman chasing nothing. Pregnant clouds Ride stately on its back, Gathering to perch on hills Like sinister dark wings; The wind whistles by And trees bend to… Read More An African Thunderstorm By David Rubadiri
Once upon a time, son, they used to laugh with their hearts and laugh with their eyes: but now they only laugh with their teeth, while their ice-block-cold eyes search behind my shadow. There was a time indeed they used to shake hands with their hearts: but that’s gone, son. Now they shake hands without… Read More Once Upon a Time by Gabriel Okara
Cruising at thirty thousand feet above the endless green the islands seem like dice tossed on a casino’s baize, some come up lucky, others not. Puerto Rico takes the pot, the Dallas of the West Indies, silver linings on the clouds as we descend are hall-marked, San Juan glitters like a maverick’s gold ring. All… Read More West Indies, U.S.A. by Stewart Brown
Kamau Brathwaite But today I recapture the islands’ bright beaches: blue mist from the ocean rolling into the fishermen’s houses. By these shores I was born: sound of the sea came in at my window, life heaved and breathed in me then with the strength of that turbulent soil. Since then I have travelled: moved… Read More South
Stewart Brown Proudly wearing the rosette of my skin I strut into Sabina England boycotting excitement bravely something badly amiss. Cricket. Not the game they play at Lords, The crowd- whoever saw a crowd At a cricket match? – are caged vociferous partisans, quick to take offence. England sixty eight for none at lunch. ‘What… Read More Test Match Sabina Park
Her son was first made known to her as a sense of unease, a need to cry for little reasons and a metallic tide rising in her mouth each morning. Such signs made her know That she was not alone in her body. She carried him full term tight up under her heart. She carried… Read More The Woman Speaks to the Man who has Employed her Son By Lorna Goodison
Martin Carter This is the dark time, my love, All round the land brown beetles crawl about. The shining sun is hidden in the sky Red flowers bend their heads in awful sorrow. This is the dark time, my love, It is the season of oppression, dark metal, and tears. It is the festival of… Read More This is the Dark Time, My Love
I leave this house box pieces of the five-week life I’ve gathered. I’ll send them on to fill spaces in my future life. One thing is left a spray of orchids someone gave from a bouquet one who makes a ritual of flower-giving sent. The orchids have no fragrance but purple petals draw you to… Read More Orchids by Hazel Simmons-McDonald
Fun Facts – Grammar Present Perfect – Active We use the active when the subject of the sentence does the action: – Martin has just watched that movie.– My friend has driven over that mountain Present Perfect – Passive We use the passive when the person who does something is not known or not… Read More Fun Facts – Grammar
A WORLD OF PROSE FOR CSEC – Essay Questions Julie Tagg The stories “Blood Brothers” and “The Day the World Almost Came to an End” address the issue of fear. Write an essay in which you describe the situation that gives rise to the fear that the main characters experience in EACH story. In addition,… Read More Essay questions for the Short Stories (CSEC World of Prose)
by TWCSECE Childhood Experiences Family Relationship Friendship Racism, Prejudice, Discrimination and Struggles Poverty Religion Women in society The treatment of women The Role of the Elderly Death/Dying
Additional Questions for the play In Walcott’s “Ti-Jean and His Brothers” the mother offers different advice to her children before they face the Devil. Discuss the value of the advice that she gives or does not give to each son. Make references to aspects of the play to support your response. Each son has a… Read More Walcott’s Ti-Jean and His Brothers :Sample Essay questions
CHARACTER Benjy Benjy’s mom Benjy’s father The good-looking man SETTING The story takes place in the small town of Springville in rural Jamaica. The family is from an even smaller town called One-Eye, located in the mountains of Springville. SUMMARY The third-person narrator tells of Benjy and his need to taste ice cream for… Read More The Boy Who Loved Ice Cream by Olive Senior
CHARACTERS Benjy Paul Mac is the old shoemaker in the village SETTING An unnamed village SUMMARY The third-person narrator relates the events of the theme of hate. Paul is not comfortable with the relationship that he shares with his twin brother Benjy. He does not like the fact that Benjy is self-sufficient and that… Read More Blood Brothers by John Wickham
CHARACTERS Black man White woman SETTING Jamaica SUMMARY The third-person narrator is unnamed. The story centers around a black man asking a white woman for light from her cigarette. She feels that the man is trespassing on her personal space. The woman has a problem with the colour of the man’s skin and shows… Read More Blackout by Roger Mais
CHARACTERS Florence Esmie Matron SUMMARY The story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator. The reader finds that the writer sticks to the theme of pity and charity as Florence takes Esmie into her home out of pity. Florence cannot understand how an eighteen-year-old girl is abandoned by the Home with nothing… Read More Mint Tea by Christine Craig
by Hazel Simmons- Mc Donald (St. Lucian) CHARACTERS Justine Gold Silver Justine’s mother The narrator’s grandmother Madame Cazaubon Mr. Cazaubon The boys SETTING(s) St. Lucia Riverside Road The Cazaubon house SUMMARY OF THE STORY The story is told from the admiring eyes of a young man who liked Justine since they were children. The narrator… Read More Shabine
by Olive Senior (Jamaican) CHARACTERS Del Elaine/Towser The narrator Maureen Jason Aunt Rita (Maureen and Jason’s parent) Uncle Rob (Maureen and Jason’s parent) Uncle Frank Eulalie Ermandine Pearlie Mr. Kincaid Mr. Samuels Melody-Ann SETTINGS Jamaica Rural Jamaica Urban Jamaica SUMMARY OF STORY Senior uses contrast to share the experiences of the child narrator. This extends… Read More The Two Grandmothers
by Paule Marshall (American) CHARACTERS The narrator Da-duh Adry (the narrator’s mother) SETTING(s) Barbados The disembarkation shed St. Thomas New York SUMMARY OF THE STORY The narrator describes Da-duh as a woman of eighty-odd years whose face looked like a death mask but still maintained eyes that were full of spirit. She is the matriarch… Read More To Da- duh in Memoriam
