Take 11 Steps to Grade 9 Essays (ft A Christmas Carol)

0:00 Intro
0:28 Essay Title
0:35 3 Part THESIS STATEMENT
1:47 MEMORISE your Thesis Statement in ADVANCE
2:24 DON'T start with the EXTRACT - HERE'S WHY
4:17 Subject TERMINOLOGY
5:52 CONDITIONAL language
6:30 CONTEXT
8:27 EMBED Quotes
9:45 SOCIETY
10:50 KEY Moments
14:23 ENDING of TEXT
15:38 Which QUOTES?
17:50 AUTHOR'S VIEWPOINT
18:19 How to use the EXTRACT

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[solipse.]

Hello, Mr. Salles, could you please make a video talking more about the punctuation: hyphens, en dashes, em dashes, colons, an rounded brackets? I would like to know more about the rules of each punctuation so that I could vary my punctuation in my essay writing.

Also, are there any tips and tricks for the fluency of the writing and sentence structure?

Thank you for the video and your help!

[Sami-omxl]

Hi mr sales is it ok if you can make videos with deep analysis on each of the characters in depth because I struggle a lot with my analysis and just would like some tips

[Felixwas_there]

Sir can you please give me a 3 part thesis (just the way to start )for this question... cz i ve been tryn to but cant really form one The question goes,

● Starting with this extract, explore how Dickens presents ideas about joy and happiness in A Christmas Carol.Write about

how Dickens person joy and happiness in this extract.

How dickens person ideas about joy and happiness in the novel as a whole

[Varshiniiiii]

Hello Sir! I saw your other videos as well. But this video does not include a plan for an essay on ACC, Can you kindly put the plan for this essay, which means the main idea of ACC gives us high marks. Many thanks.

[TrsTrs-by]

Mr Salles I have a question how could you did say we should find parts in text which can be used for any question, but I don't understand that as how could ignorance and want link to isolation or joy and happiness. Could you please explain that to me?

[milkchocolate]

what do you mean don’t start with the extract. won’t he get lower marks bc he didn’t answer the first question?

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Is the 3 part thesis statement just for the intro?

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