Achievement Standards for English T CourseS Assessment Responding critically Evaluation and synthesis Imagination and originality Use of language Control of medium criteria of ideas A student who responds to texts synthesises and demonstrates a high communicates with a demonstrates a highly achieves an A critically and with a high evaluates material in a degree of creativity and sophisticated control of developed control and grade typically degree of insight complex manner to originality language for a range of use of the conventions of construct a perceptive purposes and audiences the medium justifies viewpoint response through well-structured, logical argument and highly effective use of textual references A student who responds to texts synthesises and effectively demonstrates communicates with demonstrates an achieves a B critically and with insight evaluates material in an creativity and originality effective control of effective and consistent grade typically effective manner to language for a range of control and use of the justifies viewpoint construct a competent purposes and audiences conventions of the through structured, response medium logical argument and effective use of textual references A student who responds to texts synthesises and demonstrates some communicates with demonstrates achieves a C critically and with some evaluates material to developing control of understanding of the creativity and originality grade typically insight construct a satisfactory language for a range of conventions of the may present work that is response purposes and audiences medium but applies justifies viewpoint derivative in nature them inconsistently through structured argument and some use of textual references A student who responds to texts with synthesises and demonstrates limited communicates with demonstrates a partial achieves a D occasional insight evaluates material in a creativity and little in the inconsistent control of understanding of the grade typically limited manner to language with limited medium and limited use way of originality shows some capacity to construct a response understanding of of its conventions justify and support may present a literal purposes and audiences viewpoint interpretation paraphrases or retells constructs a simplistic or demonstrates an communicates with demonstrates little A student who incomplete response understanding of simple limited control of understanding of the shows little capacity to achieves an E and concrete ideas language conventions of the justify and support grade typically medium viewpoint presents a literal interpretation
Achievement Standards for English T CourseS Assessment criteria Responding critically Evaluation and synthesis of ideas Imagination and originality Use of language Control of medium A student who achieves an A grade typically responds to texts critically and with a high degree of insight justifies viewpoint through well-structured, logical argument and highly effective use of textual references synthesises and evaluates material in a complex manner to construct a perceptive response demonstrates a high degree of creativity and originality communicates with a sophisticated control of language for a range of purposes and audiences demonstrates a highly developed control and use of the conventions of the medium A student who achieves a B grade typically responds to texts critically and with insight justifies viewpoint through structured, logical argument and effective use of textual references synthesises and evaluates material in an effective manner to construct a competent response effectively demonstrates creativity and originality communicates with effective control of language for a range of purposes and audiences demonstrates an effective and consistent control and use of the conventions of the medium A student who achieves a C grade typically responds to texts critically and with some insight justifies viewpoint through structured argument and some use of textual references synthesises and evaluates material to construct a satisfactory response demonstrates some creativity and originality may present work that is derivative in nature communicates with developing control of language for a range of purposes and audiences demonstrates understanding of the conventions of the medium but applies them inconsistently A student who achieves a D grade typically responds to texts with occasional insight shows some capacity to justify and support viewpoint synthesises and evaluates material in a limited manner to construct a response demonstrates limited creativity and little in the way of originality may present a literal interpretation communicates with inconsistent control of language with limited understanding of purposes and audiences demonstrates a partial understanding of the medium and limited use of its conventions A student who achieves an E grade typically paraphrases or retells shows little capacity to justify and support viewpoint constructs a simplistic or incomplete response demonstrates an understanding of simple and concrete ideas presents a literal interpretation communicates with limited control of language demonstrates little understanding of the conventions of the medium
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