Sunday, May 04, 2008

HSS3 SA1 SBQ Suggested Answers

Dear Sec3s,

The suggested answers for Social Studies SA1 is uploaded for your reference.

Feedback welcomed under comments.

All the best.

Areas for improvment:
  • 1a. Inference
    • do read sources critically ie. avoid inferences that are too literal; at face-value
    • do read sources beyond the information/message ie. to show, to tell
  • 1b. Inference
    • do show awareness of different audience
    • do show awareness of speech acts ie. he said this to DO something...
  • 1c. Comparison
    • do establish point/item of comparison
    • do matching (of) evidence
    • do S&D at content level
    • do not claimed tone/purpose but use content evidence