7.5 Go West Rubric Apply – Writing Assignment Total Points – 20 Writing Assignment: You are at the junction of the California and Oregon trails having traveled there from your home in the eastern United States. You had planned to go to Oregon, claim land and farm. But now you hear about the Gold Strikes in California. Decide whether you are going to go to Oregon and farm or go to California and hope to strike it rich. Write a letter home telling your spouse of your decision. Use the lesson and the primary sources you’ve read to explain your decision. You may create any family members or scenarios you wish, just be certain to use facts and primary source items to demonstrate your knowledge of the lesson. Rubric Description Exceptional Proficient Adequate Inadequate 18-20 points 15-17 points 14-16 5-13 Focus: The author The author clearly The author The author The author focuses on the focuses and focuses on the addresses the doesn’t show a topic. composes a topic and doesn’t topic but clear compelling and stray for his sometimes strays understanding interesting paper purpose. from his main of his topic or that makes a purpose. wanders away unified whole. quickly Development: The author The author The author The author The author provides provides provides provides few presents facts interesting, interesting and descriptions and relevant examples that support his significant and relevant facts and examples but it or descriptions. main topic. relevant facts, examples. lacks relevance or details, and interest. examples. Audience: The The author The author The author The author shows author stays true consistently addresses his generally stays little to the format and addresses his audience and true to his understanding of writes in first audience and usually stays in audience, but the format. person. writes in the first the first person. may stray from person. the concept some. Cohesion: The The author uses The author keeps The author tells The author writes author keeps a transitions and in thoughts in an in a confused and clear and logical language that order but lacks understandable illogical manner sequence of keeps his exceptional sequence of which makes it thought. thoughts clear to language use. thought though it hard for the the reader. lacks expertise. reader to understand.
7.5 Go West Rubric Apply – Writing Assignment Total Points – 20 Writing Assignment: You are at the junction of the California and Oregon trails having traveled there from your home in the eastern United States. You had planned to go to Oregon, claim land and farm. But now you hear about the Gold Strikes in California. Decide whether you are going to go to Oregon and farm or go to California and hope to strike it rich. Write a letter home telling your spouse of your decision. Use the lesson and the primary sources you’ve read to explain your decision. You may create any family members or scenarios you wish, just be certain to use facts and primary source items to demonstrate your knowledge of the lesson. Rubric Description Exceptional 18-20 points Proficient 15-17 points Adequate 14-16 Inadequate 5-13 Focus: The author focuses on the topic. The author clearly focuses and composes a compelling and interesting paper that makes a unified whole. The author focuses on the topic and doesn’t stray for his purpose. The author addresses the topic but sometimes strays from his main purpose. The author doesn’t show a clear understanding of his topic or wanders away quickly Development: The author presents facts that support his main topic. The author provides interesting, significant and relevant facts, details, and examples. The author provides interesting and relevant facts and examples. The author provides descriptions and examples but it lacks relevance or interest. The author provides few relevant examples or descriptions. Audience: The author stays true to the format and writes in first person. The author consistently addresses his audience and writes in the first person. The author addresses his audience and usually stays in the first person. The author generally stays true to his audience, but may stray from the concept some. The author shows little understanding of the format. Cohesion: The author keeps a clear and logical sequence of thought. The author uses transitions and language that keeps his thoughts clear to the reader. The author keeps in thoughts in order but lacks exceptional language use. The author tells an understandable sequence of thought though it lacks expertise. The author writes in a confused and illogical manner which makes it hard for the reader to understand.
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