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CCLS Science Summative Essay

Evaluate CCLS science summative essay

Rubric Code: XX2A2AB

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Subject: Science

Type: Assessment

Grade Levels: 6-8

Science Summative Essay Write an essay evaluating their peers work based off of conversations and graphic organizers provided
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 3 pts	Excellent 4 pts
Content Organization Writes informative texts to examine a topic and convey ideas through the selection and organization of relevant content.	Poor Does not write in an organized way to convey relevant information on the assigned essay.	Fair Writing has some organization and conveys with some relevant information on the assigned essay.	Good Writing has sufficient organization and conveys sufficient relevant information on the assigned essay.	Excellent Writing has extensive organization and conveys extensive information on the assigned essay.
Explanation of Topic Use precise language and domain-specific<BR> vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic	Poor Does not demonstrate gained knowledge of science topic/vocabulary. Explanations are not relevant nor developed with facts.	Fair Demonstrates little knowledge gained of science topic/vocabulary. Explanations are somewhat relevant using some chosen facts.	Good Demonstrates good gained knowledge of the science topic/vocabulary, and explanations are relevant using well chosen facts.	Excellent Demonstrates extensive gained knowledge of the science topic/vocabulary, and explanations are developed using an extensive amount of facts.
Claims/Evidence Use of claims with logical reasoning and relevant evidence	Poor Does not have all 3/ required claims and are not supported with logical reasoning/ relevant evidence/credible sources demonstrating an understanding of the topic.	Fair Claims are vaguely supported with logical reasoning/ relevant evidence/credible sources demonstrating an understanding of the topic.	Good Claims are well supported with logical reasoning/ relevant evidence/credible sources demonstrating an understanding of the topic.	Excellent Claims are supported with an extensive logical amount of reasoning/ relevant evidence/credible sources demonstrating an understanding of the topic.
Conventions of English Observe the conventions of grammar usage such as capitalization, Punctuation, and spelling	Poor Poor sentence structure with extensive errors in spelling and punctuation.	Fair Few errors in sentence structure, spelling, and punctuation.	Good One or two errors in sentence structure, spelling, and punctuation.	Excellent All sentences are very well structured with no evidence of misspelled words or errors in punctuation.