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Endangered Species Essay

Students wrote essays for Spring Break HW about an endangered species that they chose from a list of options. CCSS WHST.6.2

Rubric Code: Y9AWX7

By wwoodruff

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Subject: Science

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 6-8

Endangered Species
	Excelent 4 pts	Good 3 pts	Fair 2 pts	Poor 1 pts
Writing Process
Writing Process	Excelent Writing process is followed as outlined in the directions	Good One pert of the writing process is not followed completly	Fair One part of the writing process is not attempted	Poor Writing process is not followed multiple steps are not attempted.
Grammar and Mechanics	Excelent no grammatical or spelling errors	Good less than 5 grammatical or mechanical errors	Fair some grammatical or mechanical errors but there is clear effort to improve as evident by looking at the improvements between the rough and the published drafts	Poor many errors, not effort to improve is noted
Publishing	Excelent Typed with a neatly made cover page	Good Hand written in pen with a neatly made cover page	Fair Typed or neatly hand written in pen without a cover page.	Poor
Researched information	Excelent All research questions are answered and Student has added more than 4 pieces of supporting information in each paragraph	Good Research questions are fully answered	Fair 3 of the 4 questions are fully answered. The student included some extraneous facts that did not answer the correct question	Poor less than 3 of the research questions are fully answered
Works Cited
Works Cited Page	Excelent Work cited page includes more than 3 citations in AA format	Good Includes 3 citations in proper APA format	Fair Includes 3 citations but not in the correct format	Poor Less than 3 citations