Mastering Evaluation for IB English Paper One

hi i'm andrew and i'm dave and we are the ib english guys and today we're going to talk about a critical skill

that's going to help you with your analysis and that is evaluation mr giles evaluation is very very

important for paper one this is all over criteria b and you'll notice that in b3 we don't see any mention of evaluation

but when you get to b4 and b5 we see phrases like good evaluation for four and very good evaluation for five so we

wanna make sure our viewers understand what this is and what this looks like yeah we need to make critical judgments

as readers we need to think about the author choices and how effective they are and this is a part of evaluation

this is a new addition to the new criteria i'd like to give a big shout out to our colleague lisa foreign she's

created this resource and she is a master teacher and we are all going to benefit from her work today yeah

absolutely it's i think it's so important for us to talk about this and i think this will help you as you go in

just like when we talked about in the in a previous video about reader effect now we're going to talk about ways to

evaluate mr jaws uh when i think about evaluation i like to think about verbs adjectives and adverbs and how we

can sort of sprinkle those intentionally throughout our paper to indicate evaluation that's great that's excellent

so let's start with let's start with the verbs that we use the verbs that we use sometimes have embedded evaluation in

them we want to think about verbs like criticizes rebukes admonishes these are strong verbs that again talk about

author purpose yeah perhaps you want to think about words like verbs like questions the author questions the

author casts doubt upon the author examines challenges these are also evaluative verbs that's right the author

ridicules the author mocks the author celebrates the author honors so again the verbs that we choose that talk about

author choices sometimes have an evaluative nature to them and a big thanks to miss foreign she has a handout

available you can see all of this language ready there for you to use what about adverbs and adjectives andrew talk

about that yeah when i think about adverbs and adjectives mr jaws i think about words such as effectively

cleverly powerfully can you think of any yeah skillfully intentionally clearly again

adverbs modify verbs okay so we want to talk about it clearly explores or cleverly admonishes so we want to think

about attaching these adverbs to verbs we can easily turn those into adjectives which are describing words like clever

or skillful so we're thinking about evaluative language and we thought the best way for us to show you how to

evaluate is to look at some samples that we've used in the past to look at our our own paper one writing and think

about how those samples weave in evaluation what do you say we do that i love that mr jaws one

of my favorite videos that we've done for the countdown to paper one was the the cartoon by grant snyder the one

where we wore the same shirts oh no here we go again yeah nice shirt we're a little loud and busy

why don't we take a look at that grant snyder one and what do you say we read a piece of analysis uh and we can think

about is this student using good evaluative language great this was a this was a a comic called on

higher purpose and again this is by grant snyder and this is what the student wrote

it is through a combination of visuals and language where schneider has most powerful impact taken alone the language

of the captions are quite serious and reflective in tone and perhaps not appropriate for a cartoon

the visuals and subtle and effective touch of humor and humanity that help to enhance the cartoon and show snyder's

ability to perhaps have some fun with his serious philosophical musings yeah so mr giles i can see with this bright

green highlighter i see the phrase most powerful impact and i see the sentence the visuals add a subtle and effective

touch of humor and humanity talk about that a little bit yeah again we've got again this is a this has got that

evaluative language such as the adjective powerful powerful impact we're really thinking about how the

combination of visuals and language which by the way was the guiding question i like the word subtle subtle

and effective yeah that's evaluative language as well we can pull those right off the document of evaluative language

and this student has done well we can see that it's a well-balanced little piece of analysis we have the feature we

have the language of the guiding question we have the orange and we have evaluation this

student is doing well so take away embedding some um again evaluative language in our analysis can really

embed that that judgment let's look at our last example and this was a digital brochure for the us army you like this

one uh yeah it was about the navy seals the navy our students really resonated with us we have quite a few students who

are you know considering joining the military so this was a pretty powerful brochure for our students okay i'll go

ahead and read the section of analysis here okay we see

the phrase or the paragraph rather lastly the effective use of style cannot be ignored as strong rhetoric is

apparent throughout the text to push messages of pride power and patriotism the use of action verbs to describe

seals as uncompromising sacrificing pushing and pulling is highly effective and captures the commitment and drive

inherent in all seals readers internalize these words and they are eager to join furthermore appealing to

ethos and invoking jfk's name further instills pride among young recruits by alluding to conflicts in far away

nations such as granada the persian gulf and liberia the rich tradition of seals is offered to readers as they imagined

joining something celebrated and unique finally the section on history concludes by illustrating that seals have directly

contributed to the security of the united states the word security is notable here as since 9 11 americans

have been on a seemingly endless quest to secure the nation from terrorism and extremists the rhetoric here is

deliberate and clear and the u.s navy skillfully uses language to motivate young americans to join the seals i

think this is an outstanding paragraph let's talk about all the aspects of the paragraph we see and why this is

fantastic okay i'll just take the verbs because i think you're going to want to talk about the other things but the

verbs are the verbs are strong we have the words such as captures appealing alluding

they're really thinking about author choices offered to readers um again we see lots of different verbs that

are are evaluated in nature and i think that's a good starting place but that's not really where the evaluation really

shines adjectives and adverse we could see these highlighted in bright green we see the word effective we see the phrase

highly effective we see the words deliberate and clear as i mentioned earlier this writer knows to sprinkle in

this evaluative language throughout their paper so they can do well in criterion b but that's not all we want

to think about what else is this paragraph doing well well i just think it's talking about again it's got

adverbs you know skillfully uses so we're attaching those adverbs to to the verbs and and again we're paying

close attention to effect on the reader and how that's effective yeah in the end giles i see a rich idea that's going to

do well for criterion a i see a wide range of features in yellow that's going to do well in b i see the effect in

evaluative language in green in the orange reference to the reader giles this student has written a very

very good paragraph yeah and i like that it's not just like the one-off sentence you know it's it's really the the entire

paragraph has evaluation on their mind it's not the one-off sentence yeah so folks in closing we would really like

you to pay attention to what we've done here today think about the work of mr giles myself and miss foreign and really

think about how you can add more deliberate evaluative language to your paper one if you can do so we think you

will find more success in criterion b yeah absolutely effect on the reader and evaluation those two things were videos

that we talked about good skills to walk into your paper one any text folks let us know what you need in the comments

we're about done with paper one for now however we still have some time so if you do need another skill let us know

we'll try to get the video out to you otherwise best of luck on paper one good luck guys take care bye