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Open original Ecollusion comic ↗

Open the stage you need. Use feedback to revise a specific skill, then apply that work in your essay.

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Paper 1: The four-step processAnnotate → Practise → Assemble → Write · Watch video ↗

Criterion B: What is evaluation?Deconstruction, connotations and the 3-Step Technique · Watch video ↗

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Get Ready

Read the text and Guiding Question.
Open TEEAL, DICE/PACT and the Annotation Rubric.

Paper 1 TEEAL Structure

DICE/PACT

3-Step Technique · Deep Dive

Open interactive Deep Dive Annotation Rubric

Do

Choose precise evidence and identify its authorial choice.
Deconstruct connotations and use PACT to infer an IDEA.
Compare, revise and add the annotation to a card.

Done

Your cards contain varied evidence.
Each connects deconstruction to an IDEA.

Mark Step 1 complete

Get Ready

Choose an annotation card.
Open TEEAL and Ways to Phrase Deconstructions.

Paper 1 TEEAL Structure

Ways to Phrase Deconstructions

Stages of IDEAs

DICE/PACT

Do

Write an EA using evidence, connotations and the IDEA.
Ask the AI to check the reasoning.
Revise the specific explanation.

Done

The EA explains how the choice develops the IDEA.
You have revised using feedback.

Mark Step 2 complete

Get Ready

Read the Guiding Question and review your revised EAs.
Use TEEAL and Stages of IDEAs to develop your argument.
Use the plan below if helpful, or start writing directly.

Paper 1 TEEAL

Stages of IDEAs

Ways to Phrase Deconstructions

Do

Group your EAs under IDEAs that answer the question.
Write Topic Sentences, Elaborations, Evidence and Analysis, and Links.
Send your plan, writing or question to the same AI below; revise its priority suggestion.

Done

Each TEEAL develops one IDEA; add another EA when needed.
Precise evidence and deconstruction explain the meaning and implications.
Your whole argument answers the question and you have revised it.

Mark Step 3 complete

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Get Ready

Read the text and Guiding Question.
Open TEEAL, DICE/PACT and the Annotation Rubric.

Paper 1 TEEAL Structure

DICE/PACT

3-Step Technique · Deep Dive

Open interactive Deep Dive Annotation Rubric

Do

Choose precise evidence and identify its authorial choice.
Deconstruct connotations and use PACT to infer an IDEA.
Compare, revise and add the annotation to a card.

Done

Your cards contain varied evidence.
Each connects deconstruction to an IDEA.

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How to annotate: Click any semi-transparent red numbered hotspot. The annotation window will show Example: followed by the exact word, image, symbol or feature that hotspot refers to, so students can clearly see what is being analysed. Write your own annotation first, then reveal the teacher model and compare AC → Deconstruction → IDEA.

Read the comic once without annotating. Then work through the numbered hotspots. The comic is split into two larger sections so the evidence and annotation targets remain clear.

Nina Paley Ecollusion comic – upper section

Nina Paley Ecollusion comic – lower section

Guiding Question: How does Paley use visual and verbal features to satirise consumerism and environmental marketing?

Teacher models are revealed only after you open a numbered hotspot. Use them to compare the precision of your authorial choice, deconstruction and IDEA.

CRITERION A — DICE/PACT
* markup: the amount added to the cost price of an item to create profit for the seller.

Source: https://www.vhemt.org/paleyart.htm

📌 Guiding Question: How does Paley use visual and verbal features to satirise consumerism and environmental marketing?

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Get Ready

Read the Guiding Question and review your revised EAs.
Use TEEAL and Stages of IDEAs to develop your argument.
Use the plan below if helpful, or start writing directly.

Paper 1 TEEAL

Stages of IDEAs

Ways to Phrase Deconstructions

Do

Group your EAs under IDEAs that answer the question.
Write Topic Sentences, Elaborations, Evidence and Analysis, and Links.
Send your plan, writing or question to the same AI below; revise its priority suggestion.

Done

Each TEEAL develops one IDEA; add another EA when needed.
Precise evidence and deconstruction explain the meaning and implications.
Your whole argument answers the question and you have revised it.

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Introduction / Thesis · Crit C

Model introduction

The impact of humanity on the natural world is one of the most vexing issues facing us today. Unfortunately, the importance of our deleterious impact on the world is not always given the credence and sustained focus many people believe it should. In her 2015 Guardian article “The Time is Now”, Grace Wilson seeks to ameliorate this apathy by clearly and explicitly demonstrating the dangers we pose to the natural world. Ultimately, she forcefully persuades the reader that our negative effects are so broad and significant that we must immediately change our behaviour. First, Wilson reveals the scale of our impact, showing that it affects all parts of the ecosystem. Then, she shows us how rapidly this destruction is being caused, and how only direct intervention can stop it.

📌 TEEAL 1

Topic Sentence / IDEA · Crit C

Elaboration · Crit A

Multiple EAs · Crit B

📌 TEEAL 2

Topic Sentence / IDEA · Crit C

Elaboration · Crit A

Multiple EAs · Crit B

Model TEEAL · example for either paragraph

The article by Wilson wants to warn the readers about the scale of the destruction humans are causing to nature. It is clearly targeting a modern, educated, left leaning audience (as she is writing for ‘The Guardian’) and hence the writer, Ms Wilson, wants to affect their perspectives in the hope of creating political and cultural change regarding our relationship with nature; as she sees this as such “catastrophic problem for our world”, she wants to impact people immediately. In particular, Ms Wilson focuses on the deleterious effects of climate change in both flora and fauna; by doing so, she is able to show us that our destruction of nature is ubiquitous. By using famous and loved examples of both (the famous Redwoods in the US and penguins and pandas), the emotional impact of our destructive tendencies are even clearer. Ms Wilson almost exclusively uses second person or collective pronouns (“you”, “us”, “we”) to directly confront, challenge and warn the audience. Furthermore, the religious allusion used when describing the need to build a collective “Noah’s ark” reminds the audience of just how dire the situation is; in the Bible, the Flood destroyed everyone on earth, other than those on the Ark and hence, without our metaphorical Ark, which Wilson implies is/q collective, political action, we likewise will be destroyed. (Continue with MANY MORE Examples and Analysis to show the impact of Purpose on the IDEA) Furthermore, to show the intelligence of the audience, Ms Wilson repeats the phrase “as you know” throughout the piece; Wilson assumes a level of intelligence by using the second person pronoun and the high modality term “know” - this works to also imply that those who disagree must not have said intelligence. Furthermore, the use of complex scientific terms such as “homeostasis”, “polar vortex” and “anthropogenic causation” without any definitions of them again implies that her audience must already understand these terms. This enhances the credibility of the claims about the extent of the destruction humans are causing to nature. (Continue with further Examples and Analysis to show the impact of Audience on the IDEA)

Conclusion · Crit C

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Crit A: DICE/PACT

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A guide to the analytical process, not the only valid interpretation. Your own supported IDEA and deconstruction can be equally successful.

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