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Grade your peer's annotations and give a clear feedback on how your peer can improve his/her annotation.

Comprehension Story Questions

20 points total One point for each section

Rubric to assess students' ability to construct a critical essay that uses textual evidence to defend an argument

Research the approved topic. Submit an autoethnography in one of several modalities . Include a bibliography citing at least 3 resources used researching the topic. Project will be graded on quality of research to support the topic, effective use of information gained through research in addition to students personal narration , credibility of sources, content, grammar and mechanics, and bibliography.

Students will create their own suspense short story, focusing on setting, characterization, plot, imagery, dialogue, point of view, pacing, and word choice

Rubric for End of Unit Assignment

Students will acquire all of the elements necessary to produce a yearbook spread. All elements will be placed on spread and styles will be applied.

Guidelines for scoring an satirical expository essay .

Seniors present topic and research completed in class in an informative presentation. Student has to prepare an 8- 10 minute presentation with their choice of media to illustrate their work. This is a formal presentation and students will dress appropriately: dressy pants, shirt and tie or dress

Write a 5 paragraph descriptive essay about a character in To Kill a Mockingbird. Use the writing techniques we have studied in class, including vivid verbs, figurative language, and sensory details. In the first paragraph, start with a descriptive hook, give a focus (setting, protagonist, purpose) and decide how best to organize your description, using transitions to guide your reader through the next 4 paragraphs. Be sure to edit for spelling, grammar, mechanics and usage. Hand in rubric rough draft, peer edit and typed final draft.

Use this rubric for grading student papers. Can be customized for any subject.

Use this rubric for grading student papers. Can be customized for any subject.

Students will create the setting, problem, characters and solution for their fairy tale.

Used for grading poems written by students.

Using persuasive images and details (vivid adjectives), create an advertisement for a friend: you get to choose the kind of friend you'd like from people who respond to your ad (so be specific!!) Choose HOW you want to market and your target audience. Decide how best you can persuade the right person/people to respond using words and pictures.

Students choose song lyrics: analyze; create iMovie expressing lyrics message; give speech discussing poetic elements/reason for choice, etc.