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Performance Assessment

This rubric will be used to assess students on their performance for the Boy in the Striped Pajamas perspective writing assignment.

Rubric Code: H946W5

By kzaleski24

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Subject: Humanities

Type: Assessment

Grade Levels: 9-12

Performance Assessment
	Unsatisfactory 1 pts	Needs Improvement 2 pts	Good 3 pts	Exceeds Expectations 4 pts
Organization	Unsatisfactory Your essay includes just three paragraphs or less. There are no clear topic or transition sentences. You are lacking an introductory or concluding paragraph.	Needs Improvement Your essay does not include five paragraphs. Major components of the essay are missing, such as topic or transition sentences.	Good Your essay includes an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Topic sentences are strong but your transitions or inclusion of supporting evidence needs additional work.	Exceeds Expectations Your essay includes an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion. All paragraphs include a topic sentence, supporting evidence and a transition to the following paragraph.
Thesis Statement	Unsatisfactory You have not included a thesis statement.	Needs Improvement You have not listed three main ideas in your thesis statement or explored those ideas in your body paragraphs.	Good You have included a thesis statement but the ideas that you listed are not significant to the novel or lack sufficient depth.	Exceeds Expectations Your thesis statement is strongly phrases and includes three specific main ideas that you then explore in your body paragraphs.
Content	Unsatisfactory Your essay does not explore point of view or rhetoric in the book.	Needs Improvement Your essay includes just one point of view explored in the novel. The essay either lacks a discussion of the rhetoric employed by the character or assesses its validity.	Good Your essay clearly outlines the different points of view explored in the story but either does not touch upon the rhetoric employed by the character or assesses its validity.	Exceeds Expectations Your essay clearly outlines the different points of view explored in the story, discussing where and when rhetoric is used and whether or not it is a valid claim.
Examples from Novel	Unsatisfactory Your essay does not draw on the novel whatsoever.	Needs Improvement Some of your claims include support from the novel but more direct quotes from the text are required.	Good The claims in your essay are well supported by excerpts and quotes from the novel	Exceeds Expectations The claims in your essay are well supported by excerpts and quotes from the novel. You have also brought in information from other sources we encountered in class.
Conventions of English	Unsatisfactory Your use of domain-specific vocabulary, correct punctuation, grammar and spelling, narrative techniques, and capitalization is nonexistent.	Needs Improvement Your use of domain-specific vocabulary, correct punctuation, grammar and spelling, narrative techniques, and capitalization is not consistent throughout the essay.	Good Your use of domain-specific vocabulary, correct punctuation, grammar and spelling, narrative techniques, and capitalization is relatively consistent and appropriate but lacking in some areas.	Exceeds Expectations Your essay illustrates your mastery of the conventions of standard written English. There is a consistent and appropriate use of domain-specific vocabulary, correct punctuation, grammar and spelling, narrative techniques, and capitalization.
Ideas	Unsatisfactory Your ideas are undeveloped and lack originality.	Needs Improvement A few of your ideas and interpretations from the novel are unique but all lack sufficient support.	Good Your ideas and interpretations of the topic and material are unique and well supported.	Exceeds Expectations Your ideas and interpretations are very unique and thought-provoking. Your use of support to back up your claims is excellent.

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