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Formal Letter Writing

After learning about the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the students will write formal letters to the US Congress asking them to accept or reject the Louisiana territory.

Rubric Code: WX32739

By tramirez0311

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Subject: Social Sciences

Type: Assignment

Grade Levels: 6-8

Analysis
	Exceeds 4 pts	Achieving 3 pts	Emerging 2 pts	Does not Meet 1 pts
Letter	Exceeds The student has convincingly wrote a persuasive formal letter to US Congress that is neat, clear and accurate.	Achieving The student has written a persuasive formal letter to US Congress that is neat, and accurate.	Emerging The student's persuasive formal letter to US Congress was not clear and/or accurate.	Does not Meet The student did not write a persuasive letter to US Congress in letter format.
Topic	Exceeds Student clearly and accurately stated the intention for the formal letter, and did not deviate from the topic.	Achieving Student included mention of the letter's intent, but did not fully convey his/her need for the reader's attention to the matter.	Emerging Student did not clearly state intention of letter, or had more than one intention, and neither were explained in detail.	Does not Meet Student does not have an intent for writing the letter.
Organization	Exceeds The student neatly and correctly included a heading, date, address, salutation, body, closing, and signature in his/her formal letter.	Achieving The student included a heading, date, address, salutation, body, closing and signature, but some elements were not neatly or correctly positioned on the paper.	Emerging The student is missing one to three critical elements of the formal letter.	Does not Meet The student is missing more than 3 critical elements of the formal letter.
Mechanics	Exceeds Student used correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling/mechanics.	Achieving Student had no more than 2 errors in capitalization, punctuation and spelling/mechanics.	Emerging Student had 3-5 errors in capitalization, punctuation and spelling/mechanics.	Does not Meet Student had more than 5 errors in capitalization, punctuation and spelling/mechanics.