Starter quiz
- Which of the below is an evaluative comment?
- Galloway successfully conveys the cellist's grief. ✓
- The use of flashback suggests the cellist's grief.
- The cellist feels grief.
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- What is a personal response?
- a response to a text influenced by your friend
- your individual, authentic response to a text ✓
- a response to a text found online
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- What does it mean to be critical?
- to accept what you are told
- to compliment something
- to form a judgement on something ✓
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- Which of the below contains tentative language?
- Galloway may have referred to WW2 to make his message universal. ✓
- Galloway successfully makes his message more universal by referring to WW2.
- Galloway refers to WW2 to make his message more universal.
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- Which of the below contains a superlative?
- The most emotive part of the text is when Galloway describes the wedding. ✓
- Galloway shows how war leads to destruction and grief.
- Galloway successfully conveys the cellist's defiance.
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- What is one defintion for the word 'gravity'?
- humour
- seriousness ✓
- ease
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Exit quiz
- In order to successfully evaluate, what type of response do we need to form?
- personal ✓
- critical ✓
- impartial
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- Which of the below is a critical comment?
- The writer helps their reader connect with characters well. ✓
- The writer uses a simile.
- The text is about war.
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- What type of word expresses a judgement on something?
- noun
- conjunction
- superlative ✓
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- What type of language expresses a possibility rather than certainty?
- tentative ✓
- definitive
- emotive
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- Which of these sentences does not use a superlative?
- I feel the most sympathy for the cellist when he drops his cello.
- The most emotive part of the text is the Opera Hall falling to ruin.
- Galloway successfully manipulates time to evoke grief and hope. ✓
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- Why is it important to use tentative language in evaluative writing?
- to show that our opinions are facts
- to show that we have researched our analysis
- to show that our opinions are subjective ideas ✓
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Key learning points
- In order to evaluate, we should form a personal and critical response to the text.
- To form a personal response, we can reflect on how a text made us feel, what stood out and what we like/dislike.
- Each reader can form a different opinion on the same part of a text.
- We can use superlatives to help us express our judgements on a text.
- We can use tentative language to express that our opinions are ideas, not facts.
Common misconception
Students may think that being critical means to talk about the negative aspects of something.
We can be critical by judging something positively or negatively.
Keywords
Evaluative - to be evaluative is to judge something carefully
Critical - being critical means judging the quality of something
Superlative - a word to express the highest or lowest quality of something
Tentative - expressing possibility rather than certainty
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