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This standard asks you to read texts about art (like essays, interviews, or videos) and explain what the authors are saying and what their ideas mean about art. You need to identify interpretations and back up your thinking with evidence from the texts themselves.
What to do, grades and common mistakes
What you actually do
- ·Explain the ideas and views that the author of the text is expressing about art
- ·Identify different interpretations about art that appear in the text
- ·Use specific evidence and quotes from the text to support your explanation
- ·Connect ideas from the text to other sources or wider contexts (for Merit and Excellence)
- ·Evaluate how important or significant these ideas are and what they tell us about art (for Excellence)
AAchieved
You explain what the author says about art and back it up with evidence from the text.
MMerit
You link the author's ideas together and bring in other sources to show deeper understanding of what the text is saying about art.