The lever
Quote in, analysis out
The whole session is one skill: the three-step lever from the essay page. Spot it, work out the effect, say so what. We watch it work once, then you drive.
Warm in
- Say back last week's thesis move in one sentence
- Look at the lever ladder: naming, effect, analysis. Which rung wins the marks?
- Name the three steps out loud: spot it, effect, so what
The work
- Nat walks the lever once on the model quote below
- Then you run it on two Act 1 to 2 quotes from your quote bank
- Finish each run with the one-sentence formula from the lever
Rough day? Watch Nat's run, then do one quote instead of two. One good lever beats two tired ones.
Close it
- Say the three steps back without looking
- Pick your strongest sentence of the day and say why it beats naming
- Set this week's phone task (below)
Watch it work once
Nat runs the lever on this line, the same one the model paragraph on the essay page is built from. Watch for the three moves: the choice, the effect, the so what.
Your two quotes, both from the early acts you already know. Run the full lever on each, ending with one written sentence.
Stuck on either? The tap-to-reveal cards in the quote bank hold the technique and the effect to analyse. Have your own go first.
On your phone this week
One more lever run
Open the analysis station on the practice page (station 2, "Push a quote up the lever"). It hands you a quote from the bank. Write one sentence of real analysis, your own version first, then reveal the strong one and spot the gap. One quote, one sentence, done.
Open the practice page →