Form developed personal responses to independently read texts, supported by evidence
You need to read at least six texts on your own (books, articles, films, podcasts, etc.) and write personal responses that show you understand them and can connect them to your own life and the wider world. Your responses must be backed up with specific details and quotes from the texts themselves.
You show you understand the texts and form personal responses to them, with specific evidence from the texts backing up what you say.
Your personal responses are convincing and well-reasoned, showing clear connections to your own life and the wider world, with relevant details from texts used deliberately.
Your responses show real insight and originality, with perceptive understanding of what texts mean, and you make meaningful, sophisticated connections between texts and yourself or society.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.