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Articles of Confederation Persuasive Essay

Persuasive Essay

This is the rubric on which I will grade students' persuasive essays

Rubric Code: G657WB

By knatkinson

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Subject: History

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 6-8

Persuasive Essay
	Poor Significantly below expectations 3 pts	Fair Either just below expectations or barely meets expectations 6 pts	Good Meets expectations with progress shown towards exemplary 9 pts	Exemplary Goes above and beyond expectations 12 pts
Editing Grammar, sentence structure, punctuation	Poor An excessive number of mistakes, including misspellings, punctuation errors, and poor essay structure, that shows carelessness in writing	Fair Several common mistakes made, but some attempts at editing have been made	Good Few common mistakes made, but most mistakes from previous drafts have been fixed	Exemplary No more than 2 mistakes in entire essay, has written multiple drafts in an attempt to eliminate all mistakes
Content Use of examples to support argument	Poor The student's understanding of the topic is so incomplete or has many misconceptions that the student cannot be said to understand the topic.	Fair The student has an incomplete understanding of the topic and/or misconceptions about some o the information. However, the student maintains a basic undertanding of the topic.	Good The student has a complete understanding of the information important to the topic but not in great detail.	Exemplary The students has a complete and detailed understanding of the information important to the topic.
Essay Structure Intro Paragraph, 3 Body Paragraphs, Conclusion, Transition words/phrases	Poor Missing 1 or more paragraphs, no transition words used to help flow of essay	Fair All paragraphs are present, but essay is choppy because few transitions are present	Good All paragraphs are present and in correct order, some transition words/phrases are used, essay still lacks flow in some parts	Exemplary All paragraphs present with at least 5 sentences each, frequent use of transition words in all parts so that essay flows nicely
Persuasion Does the essay persuade the reader to agree with the thesis?	Poor Argument lacks support and/or coherence to persuade reader	Fair Some aspects (1 body paragraph) of the argument are convincing and supported with evidence, but not all, attempts at a clear thesis are evident. Reader is not completely persuaded.	Good Most aspects (2 body paragraphs) of the argument are convincing and supported with evidence, but not all, thesis states argument. Reader is persuaded.	Exemplary All aspects (3 body paragraphs) of the argument are convincing and supported with ample evidence, thesis states argument clearly. Reader is persuaded.