What do I need to do?
Read 6 texts and write responses. Only two of these need to be novels and only 2 can be film.
How Do I Extend My Answer for a Better Grade?
- add detail about the author’s viewpoint
- add detail on how a text changes from beg to end
- use extended vocabulary
- develop your ideas
- connect what you have read with your own understanding of the world around you
- develop an insight as a result of reading
- consider the people, environment and cultural impacts on a story
- compare and contrast historic situation to now (if relevant)
- explain a ‘future focus’ as a result of what you have read
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ACHIEVED
I found it interesting to read about how the logging communities in Sometimes a Great Notion were gradually driven out by money [specific evidence provided]. This affected whole families and generations as the small businesses were bought out or the people just up and left. But some of the most interesting parts were the way they had to be much more physical then [specific evidence provided] - forest work was all about hand held axes and blasting by hand, there was none of the machinery and organisation of today. It was slow progress through the mountains compared with today. The writer was very descriptive in some parts, like working on the mountain slopes with the darkness of the trees for miles, is probably not much different today, just as the forest was really their whole lives [specific evidence provided]. You learn a lot about how forestry was done then, especially the parts where Hank is teaching Lee how to work the forests [specific evidence provided]. This candidate summarises an idea from a book they have read. They have explained what they learned about the topic of FORESTRY and have been specific by relating it to the time period in which the book was set. They interpret the idea on a deeper level by comparing and contrasting to modern forestry practices.
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MERIT
I thought about the fact that in this poem a tree that has been growing for maybe a hundred years is cut down because it spoils the view [specific evidence provided]. It made me think about how we treat people too – when people get old they become a nuisance. We don’t cut them down but we push them out of the way. The poet says that the tree is more “alive” and thinks about the tree as if it was a person [specific evidence provided] and this made my ideas change a bit as I hadn’t really thought about trees that way, but trees can be important in other ways, [specific evidence provided] not just for wood … This person achieved a better grade because they identify what it was that the writer did that made their ideas change.
They also extended their thinking away from the text and related their ideas about trees to people. They also go on to explain further ideas of their own related to and generated by their reading of the text. |
EXCELLENCE
This book made it all very real, because of the way Yossi described the Bolivian rainforest [specific evidence provided]. The adventure of Yossi and the other three men also made the author think differently about jungles, and later he started encouraging people to think of different ways to create sustainability of jungles – by encouraging cooperation and using local people’s knowledge about their environment [specific evidence provided]. So this made me think differently as well- because the book is not just about the jungle, it is about man’s relationship with the jungle or a forest – it made me think about how forests and jungles are a significant part of a country’s cultures and traditions. Even though he had a traumatic time, the author still made the jungle exciting and alive – and he made me realise that jungles are a very real and important habitat, [specific evidence provided] and he made me think that … This student thought about the text on several levels. They identified changes from the beginning to the end of the text from both the author's subject material and about the author's feelings. They identified positive and negative tones from the writing AND connected its relevance to today's society.
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What kind of things do I write about in my Personal Response?
· discussing the consequences of some of the actions in a text
· discussing your reaction to an idea or an event in a text
· discussing how a text reflected or changed your personal view
· discussing how what you learnt in a text about the responsibilities of both individuals and organisations affected or
changed your attitude/behaviour
· discussing why specific groups of people would find this text of interest or value
· discussing how you feel about the societal attitudes that are reflected in the text
· discussing whether or not you think you would be suited to work in this area, based on what you learnt in your reading of
a text
· discussing how the text reflects society’s changing attitudes/values.
· discussing your reaction to an idea or an event in a text
· discussing how a text reflected or changed your personal view
· discussing how what you learnt in a text about the responsibilities of both individuals and organisations affected or
changed your attitude/behaviour
· discussing why specific groups of people would find this text of interest or value
· discussing how you feel about the societal attitudes that are reflected in the text
· discussing whether or not you think you would be suited to work in this area, based on what you learnt in your reading of
a text
· discussing how the text reflects society’s changing attitudes/values.