Sunday, February 9, 2020

A Modest Proposal and SOLO taxonomy

Starter: "Swift thought the poor deserved to be poor."  True or false?  Find evidence to support your decision in the text (A Modest Proposal).

Today we are going to look at SOLO thinking in relation to our first text for the year.  Using a SOLO will be a big focus for us in 2020.  It is a very successful tool for gaining merit and excellence results in both internals and externals.

SOLO
Pre-structural - you do not know anything about the topic.
Unistructural - you know a little bit about a topic, but it is a bit random.
Multistructural - you know several things about a topic, but cannot yet link them together.
Relational - you can explain how different parts of a text relate to each other and why (merit level answer)
Extended abstract - you can link the text to your own experiences, to other texts and to the wider world.


Have a read of these two sites: The Onion and The Civilian.

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