Document K Maps of the Mexican War Map of military activities during the Mexican-American War, 1846–1848, 2012 Created by Kaldor, 2012. Reprinted under license.. Exceeds Standard Meets Standard Below Standard Far Below No Score Standard Claim is clearly stated, Claim is clear and for the Claim on the issue may be Claim may be Insufficiently focused and strongly most part maintained, somewhat unclear, confusing and/or addresses the maintained (10 points) though some loosely unfocused, and/or lacks ambiguous and/or off prompt related material may be (6 points) (4 points) support topic and/or present (8 points) Copied text and/or Counterclaim(s) are clearly Counterclaim(s) are Counterclaim is missing Off-topic addressed (10 points) somewhat addressed (8 and/or irrelevant to topic and/or points) (6 points) Off-purpose Additional Notes: Score: /20 * Counterclaim begins at 7th grade Exceeds Standard Meets Standard Below Standard Far Below No Score Standard Effective, consistent use of a Adequate use of Inconsistent use of Few or no transitional Insufficiently variety of transitional transitional strategies transitional strategies strategies are evident addresses the strategies to clarify the with some variety to and/or little variety (6 (4 points) prompt relationship between and clarify relationships points) and/or among ideas (10 points) between and among Copied text (8 points) ideas and/or Off-topic Logical progression of ideas Adequate progression of Uneven progression of Frequent extraneous and/or from beginning to end; ideas from beginning to ideas from beginning to ideas may be evident Off-purpose strong connections between end; adequate end and/or formulaic and/or ideas may be and among ideas with some connections between and and/or inconsistent randomly ordered syntactic variety (10 points) among ideas (8 points) and/or unclear and/or have unclear connections among ideas progression (4 (6 points) points) Effective introduction and Adequate introduction Introduction and/or No introduction or conclusion for audience and and conclusion (8 conclusion (if present) are conclusion (0 points) purpose (10 points) points) weak (6 points) Additional Notes: Score: /30
Document K Maps of the Mexican War Map of military activities during the Mexican-American War, 1846–1848, 2012 Created by Kaldor, 2012. Reprinted under license.. Exceeds Standard Meets Standard Below Standard Far Below Standard No Score Claim is clearly stated, focused and strongly maintained (10 points) Claim is clear and for the most part maintained, though some loosely related material may be present (8 points) Claim on the issue may be somewhat unclear, unfocused, and/or lacks support (6 points) Claim may be confusing and/or ambiguous and/or off topic (4 points) Insufficiently addresses the prompt and/or Copied text and/or Off-topic and/or Off-purpose Counterclaim(s) are clearly addressed (10 points) Counterclaim(s) are somewhat addressed (8 points) Counterclaim is missing and/or irrelevant to topic (6 points) Additional Notes: * Counterclaim begins at 7th grade Score: /20 Exceeds Standard Meets Standard Below Standard Far Below Standard No Score Effective, consistent use of a variety of transitional strategies to clarify the relationship between and among ideas (10 points) Adequate use of transitional strategies with some variety to clarify relationships between and among ideas (8 points) Inconsistent use of transitional strategies and/or little variety (6 points) Few or no transitional strategies are evident (4 points) Insufficiently addresses the prompt and/or Copied text and/or Off-topic and/or Off-purpose Logical progression of ideas from beginning to end; strong connections between and among ideas with some syntactic variety (10 points) Adequate progression of ideas from beginning to end; adequate connections between and among ideas (8 points) Uneven progression of ideas from beginning to end and/or formulaic and/or inconsistent and/or unclear connections among ideas (6 points) Frequent extraneous ideas may be evident and/or ideas may be randomly ordered and/or have unclear progression (4 points) Effective introduction and conclusion for audience and purpose (10 points) Adequate introduction and conclusion (8 points) Introduction and/or conclusion (if present) are weak (6 points) No introduction or conclusion (0 points) Additional Notes: Score: /30