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Module B (Standard): Close Study of Literature
Quick questions on Personal informed evaluation in HSC English Standard Module B
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Why does that matter to me as a reader?Show answer
What evidence from the text supports my view?
What is building a personal informed evaluation?Show answer
A protocol for developing your evaluation.
What are the view is yours?Show answer
The student's evaluation is not borrowed from a teacher's interpretation, a SparkNotes summary, or an essay sample. It is the position the student has reached through their own engagement with the text.
What is the view is defensible?Show answer
Personal does not mean private. The view should be one that can be argued and supported. A personal evaluation is one the student can give reasons for.
What is the view is presentable in the response?Show answer
The marker should be able to identify the student's evaluative position in the essay. The voice of the response is the voice of the personal evaluation.
What is textual evidence?Show answer
The evaluation is grounded in the specific text. Quotations, scene references, structural observations: the evidence is from the text itself.
What is critical understanding?Show answer
The evaluation reflects engagement with how the text works, not just what it says. A reader who has thought about form, structure, language, and the responder is informed in a way a reader who has only registered the plot is not.
What are awareness of other readings?Show answer
The student does not have to engage critical literature directly, but the evaluation should be aware that other evaluations are possible. The student's view is positioned, not absolute.
What is evaluation names significance?Show answer
What the text does that matters. Why this text rewards close study. What it offers that another text would not.
What are evaluation distinguishes?Show answer
A good evaluation can identify what the text does well and where its choices have costs. The evaluation is not blanket approval; it is a measured account.
What are evaluation argues?Show answer
An evaluation that asserts the text is great without arguing why is not an evaluation. The evaluation has to be defended through specific reading.
What is significance as critical work?Show answer
The text does something distinctive that the responder can identify and name. The significance is the specific contribution: a particular form, a particular treatment, a particular structural decision. The significance is what is unique to this text.
What is significance as responder impact?Show answer
The text produces a specific kind of effect on the responder, and that effect is what gives the text its significance for the reader. The significance is the work the text does on the people who read it.
What is significance as participation in a tradition?Show answer
The text is significant within its literary tradition. It does work that other texts in the tradition did not do, or it does the tradition's work in a particular way. The significance is the text's place within the broader literary conversation.
What is opinion without evidence?Show answer
Asserting what the student thinks without arguing it through the text.