Goal: Independently defend a reading of a new narrative and its companion note using precise textual choices.
Prepare: Teacher releases Fresh A only now; separate key stays teacher-facing until first response.
- Choose and begin · 5 min. Read the task and choose response mode/private audience. Explain that several readings can be valid when supported. Record any known previous exposure; this is a public formative source, not a secure instrument.
- Read/model or source access · 8 min. Provide the complete new narrative and note with paragraph labels. Read instructions/text neutrally if agreed, without supplying a thesis or best phrase. Log reading support, source access and prompting.
- Explore or independent plan · 12 min. Independently select a reading and evidence from the new story and note. Consider a different plausible reading. Planning, rereading and changing a provisional idea are allowed; no model response or worked source is supplied.
- Make a response · 15 min. Compose a critical response (about 250–350 words or equivalent agreed mode as a flexible guide). Explain specific textual choices and how they invite a reading; link the note without flattening literary meaning into factual checking. Retain the first response before teaching feedback.
- Review · 6 min. Student self-checks quotation/context/cohesion and marks any change they choose. Capture initial version and revision separately if available. If time ends, retain a useful partial response and arrange another sitting; no speed penalty.
- Keep/next move · 4 min. Use the separate descriptive key/rubric after capture. Choose one next teaching move from the observed response, not a QCAA A–E/IA/QCE result. No whole Unit 1 conclusion.