Higher English 2019-2020

Would you mind emailing them to me?

Has anyone got tips on writing a good creative piece for their folio? I would've done a reflective piece but I wouldn't have anything interesting enough to reflect on.

My problem is I don't feel I can write anything that doesn't sound really cringey. I got 20/30 on my folio last year but because I suck at Jekyll and Hyde and our Essay, my folio really needs boosted. My teacher has already helped me to up my discursive piece and try and get it into the 13-15 category but my creative writing is really letting me down. The best I could probably get on my creative is about a 6 if I'm going to be completely honest. I'm trying to improve my creative writing by using keeping the thesaurus open at all times but I feel like I'm just chucking in too many big words that it just seems unnatural. I've read past examples so I know the type of work the SQA is looking for, I'm just struggling to get my work to that standard.

Read loads of short stories! This will give you a great feel for the style and flow of them. I’d recommend only 1 or 2 main characters and 1 major plot point which the whole story builds up to. Roald Dahl and Daphne Du Maurier (maybe not the right spelling) are great authors to look at. Also remember some of your marks come from how well you write in the style of a short story, not just how well written it is. Hope this helps!

Hi there, I am in the same position. I was wondering if there would be a possibility that you could maybe forward these to me if that would be okay? Im studing death of a salesman as my critical essay and im very lost on where to start? x

Is there any chance you could mail me your great gatsby essays?x

I have a serious question.

I have a prelim on monday and the teacher decided to ditch us until prelim (not in school even though she told us she would come) and she wanted to blast through RUAE however she won’t and she did not taught us how to do the last question 5 marker. So how do you do it?

And also if you’re doing a book for critical text and do the elsewhere part in 10 marker are you able to just write a statement rather than a quote if you forgot it?

Oh god. English prelim on monday, and I haven’t prepared for it cause the teacher decided to do jekyll for critical text and one of the Maccaig poems for essay 😤

It says you just quoted me

Oh. Probably a glitch. I was saying if you’re doing jekyll for essay or critical text cause I have quotes that might be helpful

Yeah, that happens. I would really appreciate that, if you don’t mind passing them on of course

There you go:


sorry if it’s not in order.
and let me know if you can’t see them

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it

You’re welcome, I wanted to send it through pm but I couldn’t do that on my phone so I decided to put here so that anybody could have them.