Level 5: Advanced
Academic Excellence. Global Responsibility.
Welcome to Level 5: Advanced — the culmination of the Jurassic English™ journey.
This is the level of full Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP): the register of academic journals, university essays, legal argument, and intellectual debate. Students engage in intertextual analysis, write with academic precision, and construct multi-source arguments with the rigour of scholarly discourse.
Core level profile
Age Band
14+ years
CEFR Range
B2 → C1
Lessons / Year
40 structured lessons per academic year
Core Texts
10 core texts (4 lessons each)
Cognitive Focus
Full CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency): nuance, subtext, academic synthesis, and the register of IB HL / Cambridge Advanced
B2 → C1 (approx. 700–800+ instructional hours — Full CALP)
Text Complexity
Diverse genres — memoir, satire, postcolonial fiction, scientific essay
This is the reading focus named in the syllabus for Level 5: Advanced.
Four competencies define the work at this level.
Critical Thinking
Students produce intertextual analysis — comparing how multiple authors across genres and cultural traditions approach the same philosophical question, evaluating each framework on its own terms.
Moral Reasoning
Students engage ecological philosophy, postcolonial ethics, and political philosophy as rigorous intellectual systems, not merely as 'alternative views'.
Structured Reflection
Students write extended ecological philosophy reflections, policy critique arguments, and growth narratives that synthesise their entire Jurassic English™ journey.
Academic Expression
Students write multi-source research essays with citation, academic precision, and the register demanded by international examinations (IB, Cambridge, AP).
Assessment tracks the quality of reasoning.
All written justification tasks are assessed using the WWL Four-Level Reasoning Rubric.
Lesson observation every lesson: teacher assesses intertextual reasoning, source evaluation, and philosophical positioning.
Academic essay per unit: multi-paragraph with counterargument, synthesis, and citation, aligned to IB/Cambridge assessment criteria.
Research essay in Terms 2 and 3: multi-text thematic synthesis with formal citation.
CEFR self-assessment each term on the B2 / C1 descriptor grid; C1 readiness is confirmed through portfolio moderation, examination performance, and teacher assessment.
What this level builds toward
This level develops
This year prepares students directly for international examinations — IB English, Cambridge Advanced, AP Literature — and for the demands of university-level academic writing.
Next stage
Outcome of the series
For students who began at Level 1, this is the completion of the journey from first story to full academic voice.