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Assessment for Learning in A-Level Literature. E Heaney ( bullers wood school). Challenges…. Independence Making & Showing Progress Understanding the higher order thinking skills – especially B – A, A-A* ‘Hitting’ the Assessment Objectives. 2 AfL Tasks. Thinking skills
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Assessment for Learning in A-Level Literature E Heaney (bullers wood school)
Challenges… • Independence • Making & Showing Progress • Understanding the higher order thinking skills – especially B – A, A-A* • ‘Hitting’ the Assessment Objectives
2 AfL Tasks • Thinking skills • Active assessment for learning
Following the submission of an essay with teacher annotations…
Did you ... Write summaries of several poems but use no quotation? BAND 1 Explain the poems and use embedded quotes but refer to no techniques explicitly? BAND 2 Refer to 3 or fewer poetic techniques including vague references to ‘language’ explaining effects? BAND 3 Analyse some language use but not structure? BAND 4 Analyse language & structure? BAND 5
What is the difference between? Summarise Explain Analyse Evaluate
Summarise The chicken crossed the road in the day, even though that action is dangerous. There were several cars nearby and, in fact, other traffic too, so it was actually a more dangerous action than if it was night time. The chicken didn’t get squashed but later on, a badger did. Overall, the chicken was lucky when it crossed the road, on that sunny day, that it didn’t get squashed.
Explain The chicken crossed the road to get to the other side.
Explain with evidence The chicken crossed the road to get to the other side. We know this because the night before he crossed, he was heard to say that ‘All I want to do in the world is to escape to the other side of that road.’
You just don’t appreciate my complexity, nor the context of my actions.
Offer some limited analysis through apt selection of evidence Considering the risk posed by daylight and surrounding traffic, the chicken’s determined declaration the previous night saying that ‘all (he) wanted in the world’ was to cross the road indicates urgency and desperation.
Fine. You have shown some insight. You aren’t really listening to me, though. I am subtle; I have revealed more than this.
Analysis Firstly, use of hyperbole in his assertion that ‘all’ he wanted to do ‘in the world’ indicates the extreme importance of crossing the road to the chicken. Furthermore, his use of the verb ‘escape’ in his confession of the previous night indicates that his motive was not specifically to get to side B of the road; it was to leave side A. Considering the significant peril of a road with traffic, on a sunny day, when a driver’s sight could be impaired easily by glare, it is reasonable to infer that the risk on side A must have been at least equal to that of crossing the road: death.
Evaluation It is interesting to reflect that, because the peril was so great, the chicken may have reasonably supposed that he would meet his death on the road. Therefore, his decision to confide his plan the night before indicates that he wished his motive for crossing to survive, even if he didn’t. In a sense, then, the act of crossing is not only his escape, but also an exercise in exposing his coercion to do so.
Yes – well done. Now leave me alone. I have a life to get on with.
Choose a quotation from your essay Point related to Frost’s intention in his poetry Quotation that proves it Identify a technique in this quotation Analyse the impact of this technique In your conclusion, evaluate in relation to the essay question
Active AfL • AO1 • AO2 • AO3 • AO4
Using the assessment criteria… • Colour code the comments • Highlight the passage that needs improvement
Which colour… • Is appearing the most? • Is appearing the least? (Or is absent?)
