Bloom

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Blooms Taxonomy

• A guide to reading, writing, thinking and
  understanding

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Level 1 - Knowledge

• Remembering, memorizing, recognizing, recalling
  identification, recalling information
• Question Verb Cues arrange, define, duplicate,
  label, list, memorize, name, order, recognize,
  relate, recall, repeat, reproduce, state, quote

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AP Essay 1-2

• If you work at this level, you do not adequately
  comprehend the piece assigned and have not yet
  begun to work cognitively with this piece of
  literature.

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Level 2 - Comprehension

• Understanding information, grasp meaning,
  interpreting, translating from one medium to
  another, describing in ones own words,
  organizing and selecting details/facts
• Question Verb Cues classify, describe, discuss,
  explain, express, identify, indicate, locate,
  recognize, report, restate, review, select,
  translate

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AP Essay 3-4

• If you work at this level, you have achieved
  comprehension of the material but you have not
  moved into higher level thinking skills. You are
  not making insightful, developed inferences
  through careful analysis of the text.

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Level 3 - Application

• Problem solving, applying information to produce
  some result, using facts/rules/principles
• Question Verb Cues apply, choose, demonstrate,
  dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret,
  operate, practice, schedule, sketch, solve, use,
  write

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AP Essay 5

• If you work at this level, you have achieved
  comprehension of the material and some analysis,
  but your analysis is not sufficiently developed.

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Level 4 - Analysis

• Subdividing something to show it is it put
  together, finding the underlying
  structure/pattern of a communication (text),
  identifying motives/hidden meanings, separating
  whole into component parts
• Question Verb Cues analyze, appraise, calculate,
  categorize, compare, contrast, criticize,
  differentiate, discriminate, distinguish,
  examine, experiment, question, test

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AP Essay 6-7

• If you work at this level, you have achieved
  critical thinking at the analysis level of
  Blooms taxonomy. This means you have broken the
  material down into its constituent literary parts
  and detected relationships of the parts and of
  the way they are organized. However, your
  inferences are not as insightful and
  well-developed as an 8 9 essay

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Level 5 - Synthesis

• Creating a unique idea (old idea to form new
  idea), relating knowledge from several areas,
  combining ideas to form a new whole,
  predicting/drawing conclusions
• Question Verb Cues arrange, assemble, collect,
  compose, construct, create, design, develop,
  formulate, manage, organize, plan, prepare,
  propose, set up, write

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Level 6 - Evaluation

• Comparing and discriminating between ideas,
  assessing value of theories, making value
  decisions about issues, resolving controversies
  or differences of opinion, developing opinions,
  judgments or decision
• Question Verb Cues appraise, argue, assess,
  attach, choose, compare, defend, estimate, judge,
  predict, rate, core, select, support, value,
  estimate, test, measure, explain, conclude

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AP Essay 8-9

• If you work at this level, you have achieved
  critical thinking at the synthesis and evaluation
  levels of Blooms taxonomy. You put together the
  literary elements you have broken the piece into
  (through analysis), and present to your reader a
  sophisticated, critical understanding of the
  literature that indicates you have a clearly
  developed aesthetic or rhetorical sense regarding
  the piece.

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AP Essay 8-9

• Your inferences are well-reasoned and thoroughly
  developed, demonstrating that you have been
  moved in some way by the piece and have a
  powerful response to it.