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Children's Book with Two Audiences: Narrative Writing 
Children's Book with Two Audiences: Narrative Writing
Student will write a short children's story with a theme similar to the Lorax but with a different environmental topic.
Rubric Code: SXC7B6W
By mmalach
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Subject: English  
Type: Writing  
Grade Levels: 9-12

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Children's story than appeals to both children and adults that discusses AP Environmental Science topic.
  Exceeding Standards

Total Points:5

(N/A)

Meeting Standards

Total Points:4

(N/A)

Progressing Towards Standards

Total Points:3

(N/A)

Does Not Meet Standards

Total Points:2.5

(N/A)

Story Set-up

Story has a title page and contains a minimum of 10 pages of text and 10 illustrative picture pages.
Exceeding Standards

Student has an interesting title, book cover with picture, more than 10 pages of text, more than 10 pages of illustrative pictures that go with the text.
Meeting Standards

Student has an interesting title, minimum of 10 pages of text, minimum of 10 pages of illustrative pictures that go with the text.
Progressing Towards Standards

Student has an interesting title, 9 pages of text, 9 pictures, some of which do not really illustrate what the text is describing.
Does Not Meet Standards

Student is missing a title, has fewer than 9 pages of text or fewer than 9 pages of illustrative pictures.
Beginning/Conclusion

Story begins well, captures reader's attention and leads to a plausible and logical ending that evokes emotion of some kind in the reader.
Exceeding Standards

Beginning captures readers attention making them want to read more. Conclusion finalizes story in a satisifying way. Story evokes emotion.
Meeting Standards

Beginning captures readers attention making them want to read more. Conclusion finalizes story in a satisifying way.
Progressing Towards Standards

Student starts with an identifiable beginning. Conclusion finalizes story in a satisifying way.
Does Not Meet Standards

Beginning or conclusion are not easily identifiable.
Main AP Topic/Idea/Details

Story's main idea is prominent and all details of character, setting, language and plot serve to further that main idea.
Exceeding Standards

Book has an identifiable main idea that is easily elaborated and supported with characters, setting, language, and plot appropriate to the main AP Environmental Science idea.
Meeting Standards

Book has a main idea that is easily elaborated and supported with character, setting, language, and plot appropriate to the main AP Environmental Science idea.
Progressing Towards Standards

Book has a vague main idea and characters, setting, language, and plot seem random rather than supportive of the main AP Environmental Science idea.
Does Not Meet Standards

Book is missing either a main AP Environmental Science idea and has no cohesive, unified plot. Setting is not identifiable. Characters not developed or appropriate to story's main idea.
Climax/Resolution

Story uses strong diction throughout and leads the reader to an emotional high point followed by a plausible, logical resolution
Exceeding Standards

Student writes a climax or resolution that includes concrete details. The climax leaves the reader anticipating the resolution which creatively ties up all the loose ends.
Meeting Standards

Student writes a climax or resolution that includes concrete details. The climax leaves the reader anticipating the resolution which neatly ties up all the loose ends.
Progressing Towards Standards

Student writes a climax or resolution. The climax leaves the reader anticipating the resolution which somewhat ties up all the loose ends.
Does Not Meet Standards

Climax or resolution to achieve identified purpose.
Audience/Rhetorical Strategies

Appeals to adult and children by containing an adult theme but several rhetorical stragegies of sound, rhyme, repetition, repeated patterns of sentence structure, appealing vocabulary, diction, and pictures that support the story's main idea
Exceeding Standards

Student includes an adult theme but appeals to children with several rhetorical strategies of repetition, rhyme, sound devices, repeated patterns of sentence structure, appropriate level of vocabulary for children, diction appealing to children, pictures that appeal to both children and adults.
Meeting Standards

Student includes an adult theme but has only some rhetorical strategies of repetition, rhyme, sound devices, repeated patterns, appropriate vocabulary, appealing diction, or pictures with little appeal either to children or adults.
Progressing Towards Standards

Appeals only to a children's audience and has a few identifiable rhetorical strategies that appeal to children but has no apparent adult theme.
Does Not Meet Standards

Has an adult theme but few rhetorical strategies that appeal to children.
Enjoyable

Would someone buy this book for children?
Exceeding Standards

Definitely yes.
Meeting Standards

Probably.
Progressing Towards Standards

No.
Does Not Meet Standards

Inappropriate.
Work in group shared evenly

Group work is done fairly and evenly
Exceeding Standards

Group worked very well together, sharing the work evenly and fairly
Meeting Standards

Group mostly worked well together, sharing most of the work evenly and fairly
Progressing Towards Standards

Group worked ok together. More sharing should have taken place. The division of work was not very even or fair.
Does Not Meet Standards

Group did not work well together. The work was very unevenly distributed.
Bibliograph/Citations

You should provide an MLA formatted bibliography for the resources you used for your book.
Exceeding Standards

Yes
Meeting Standards
Progressing Towards Standards
Does Not Meet Standards

not provided



Keywords:
  • AP Environmental Science, APES, Science



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