ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT
Linking analysis to big ideas
Assessment Criteria and What A Good One Looks Like
Below you will find the Skill Check assessment criteria for this skill, and underneath you will find an example of what a good one looks like, with a brief explanation of how it fits the criteria.
Assessment Criteria for Linking analysis to big ideas
minus
any of these things
It’s not the analysis part of the paragraph (e.g. repeats evidence, etc)
Only writes about what the quotation tells us about the characters/plot – doesn’t go outside the text into big ideas
equals (just) to plus (secure)
all of these things
Is the analysis part of a PEA paragraph and explains the evidence adequately and appropriately
Analysis goes outside of the text and connects to big ideas – even in a small way
star
all of these things
All the + criteria
Provides some thoughtful, interesting or detailed links to big ideas from the quotation
Links clearly to the point
What a good one looks like
Example task
Read the point and evidence and then complete the task underneath.
In ‘Those Winter Sundays’ Robert Hayden suggests that it is often through their unseen actions that parents show their love. The speaker describes how, even on Sundays, his father would get up early and dress in “the blueblack cold” and light the fires with his “cracked hands” even though “no one ever thanked him.”
Write the analysis to complete this PEA paragraph. You can analyse any aspects of the evidence, including the writers’ methods, if you want, but you must link it to the point and include some discussion of big ideas.
Example response
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Notes on this response
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