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Writing A Letter

Students will write a letter to a Pen-Pal who lives somewhere outside of Nevada. Describe Nevada's relative location, its climate, weather, and natural resources. Then explain how these thing affect your every day life. For example the cloths you wear, the activities you do, etc...

Rubric Code: L225ACX

By elrontylor

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Subject: Social Sciences

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: (none)

Writing Rubric
	EXCELLENT 4 pts	GOOD 3 pts	FAIR 2 pts	POOR 1 pts
Reflection	EXCELLENT -Writer has all 3 paragraphs in their letter. -Entire response is very specific and descriptive of Florida's location, climate, weather, and resources. -Students show reflective thought on how Florida's location, climate, weather, and resources affect their daily life and personal connections. All of the ideas are clearly supported.	GOOD -The writer has 3 paragraphs in their letter. -The response is some what descriptive of Florida's location, climate, weather, and resources. -Students show some reflective thought on how Florida's location, climate, weather, and resources affect their daily life and makes personal connections. Most of the ideas are clearly supported.	FAIR -The writer has written 2 paragraphes. -The response is not very descriptive of Florida's location, climate, weather, and resources. -Show very little reflection thought on how Florida's location, climate, weather, and resources affect their daily life and make no personal connections. -Some of the ideas are clearly supported	POOR -The writer has written 1 paragraph -The response does not describe Florida's location, climate, weather, and resources. - No reflective thought on how Florida's location, climate, weather, and resources affect their daily life. -The ideas are not clearly supported.
Ideas & Content	EXCELLENT Information is accurate and response shows good insight. All entries are complete.	GOOD Information is accurate. Discussion makes a logical conclusion or an opinion is offered.	FAIR Information provided is generally accurate but no insight is offered.	POOR Information provided is not accurate and no insight is offered.
Organization & Mechanics	EXCELLENT Writing is fluent and interesting to read. Discussion is backed up with evidence from class. Entry is to the point, in complete sentences, free of spelling errors and uses correct grammar.	GOOD Writing is fluent and somewhat interesting; discussion could be supported more strongly, spelling errors are minimal and grammar is mostly accurate.	FAIR There may or may not be a conclusion or an opinion. Writing is full of grammatical and spelling errors.	POOR There is no conclusion or opinion. Writing is full of grammatical and spelling errors.