Demonstrate understanding of significant aspects of unfamiliar texts
You'll read three brand-new texts you've never seen before and answer a question about each one, showing you understand how the writer uses language, structure, and ideas to create meaning and effects. You need to back up everything you say with specific details from the texts, and explain not just what techniques are used but why they matter and what effect they have on the reader.
You respond straightforwardly to the question, identify relevant language features with explanation, and link details from the text to your points with basic interpretation.
You respond clearly to the question with well-structured discussion, use shorter focused quotes with specific explanations, discuss examples in combination, and link language choices to the text's wider purpose.
You provide detailed and nuanced interpretation of language and ideas, weave discussion of purpose and context throughout your response, make logical links between techniques and their effects, and demonstrate perceptive understanding of how aspects work together to create meaning.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.