Humour at Work
Open the stage you need. Use feedback to revise a specific skill, then apply that work in your essay.
How to complete these activities
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 ↗Student Planner: 3 Steps to P1 Success
Get Ready
- Read the text and Guiding Question.
- Open TEEAL, DICE/PACT and the 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.
Get Ready
- Choose an annotation card.
- Open TEEAL and Ways to Phrase Deconstructions.
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.
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.
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.
Get Ready
- Keep your TEEAL plan and EAs available.
- Read the Guiding Question again.
Do
- Write the essay using TEEAL.
- Explain implications and deconstruct precise choices.
- Check the essay and revise the priority issue.
Done
- The argument answers the question.
- Specific evidence supports your IDEAs.
- You have acted on the feedback.
📋 Get Ready → Do → Done
Get Ready
- Read the text and Guiding Question.
- Open TEEAL, DICE/PACT and the 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.
The following infographic is from the website of Humor That Works, a company that provides training and resources on how to achieve success and happiness in the workplace.
* missing-person milk carton: since the early 1980s, advertisements on milk cartons in the United States have been commonly used to publicize cases of missing people.
Tarvin, A., 2019. Humor at work: how’s and why’s of workplace humor. Humor That Works [online]. Available at: https://www.humorthatworks.com/humor-at-work-infographic/ [Accessed 22 September 2020]. SOURCE ADAPTED.
Discuss how different features are used in this infographic to achieve the author’s purpose.
Crit B: 3‑Step Annotations (click to open)
📋 Your Cards
0 cards📋 Get Ready → Do → Done
Get Ready
- Choose an annotation card.
- Open TEEAL and Ways to Phrase Deconstructions.
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.
Crit A cards → Practice Elaborations (ELAB).
Crit B cards → Practice Evidence/Analysis (EA) sentences.
Press ✓ Ready when your sentence is complete.
Get Ready → Do → Done
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.
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.
Your TEEAL plan · editable while you write
Introduction / Thesis · Crit C
📌 TEEAL 1
📌 TEEAL 2
📝 Teacher Model (one possible reading)
A guide to the analytical process, not the only valid interpretation. Your own supported IDEA and deconstruction can be equally successful.