Advanced Proficient Partially Proficient Not Proficient Content Specific (4) (3) (2) (1) Requirements Introduces a topic Topic is clearly identified Topic is clearly identified Topic Topic is not obvious, and with an engaging topic with topic sentence/thesis/claim is and barely provides a Concludes a topic sentence/thesis/claim sentence/thesis/claim present, but it lacks focus. and effectively previews and adequately previews focus. A concluding statement what is to come. what is to come. A concluding statement is not obvious and Provides an excellent Provides a clear is present but lacks focus barely provides a focus concluding statement concluding statement Content The response provides a The response provides an The response provides The response provides comprehensive and adequate understanding uneven or minimal limited or no focused understanding of of the information information to support information to support the information which is important to the topic. the Limited use of the topic. There is strongly maintained The student uses outside sources are almost no use of throughout. The student examples to support the weakly integrated sources or outside uses several examples to information information to inform inform the reader the reader Organization The response has a clear The response has an The response has an The response has and effective adequate organizational inconsistent limited or no organizational structure structure and a sense of organizational structure, progression of that has a logical progression from the an uneven progression organizational structure progression of ideas from beginning to end, though and flaws are evident beginning to end. there may be minor flaws and some ideas are loosely connected Mechanics The response follows The response adequately The response has an The response has Cannot use symbols requirements for meets requirements for inconsistent use frequent errors. (slope instead of m) response and is free of response requirements of command of Spell numbers less than errors mechanics conventions ten (nine instead of 9) TOTAL
Advanced (4) Proficient (3) Partially Proficient (2) Not Proficient (1) Content Specific Requirements Introduces a topic and Concludes a topic Topic is clearly identified with an engaging topic sentence/thesis/claim and effectively previews what is to come. Provides an excellent concluding statement Topic is clearly identified with topic sentence/thesis/claim and adequately previews what is to come. Provides a clear concluding statement Topic sentence/thesis/claim is present, but it lacks focus. A concluding statement is present but lacks focus Topic is not obvious, and barely provides a focus. A concluding statement is not obvious and barely provides a focus Content The response provides a comprehensive and focused understanding of the information which is strongly maintained throughout. The student uses several examples to inform the reader The response provides an adequate understanding of the information important to the topic. The student uses examples to support the information The response provides uneven or minimal information to support the Limited use of outside sources are weakly integrated The response provides limited or no information to support the topic. There is almost no use of sources or outside information to inform the reader Organization The response has a clear and effective organizational structure that has a logical progression of ideas from beginning to end. The response has an adequate organizational structure and a sense of progression from the beginning to end, though there may be minor flaws and some ideas are loosely connected The response has an inconsistent organizational structure, an uneven progression and flaws are evident The response has limited or no progression of organizational structure Mechanics The response follows requirements for response and is free of errors The response adequately meets requirements for response The response has an inconsistent use requirements of mechanics The response has frequent errors. command of conventions Cannot use symbols (slope instead of m) Spell numbers less than ten (nine instead of 9) TOTAL
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