The following rubric is essentially a generic paraphrase of the rubric I will be using to evaluate all of your written work this year. Ideally, you will learn to apply this rubric with the same expectations as I use.
Therefore, I will use this same metric to evaluate your summer responses. In general, the rubric will consider your quality of content (direct and indirect quotes and explanations), focus and organization, style, syntax, and sensitivity to the nuances of vocabulary. Please pay special attention to underlined words and phrases.
9-8
These well-focused and persuasive responses address the prompt directly and in a convincing manner. A response scored an 8 or a 9 combines adherence to the prompt with excellence in writing (excellent organization, content, insight, facile use of language, mastery of mechanics, and an understanding of the essential components of effective writing). Story details and author technique are not merely listed, but the effect of those details and techniques is addressed in context of the selection as a whole. Although not without flaws, these responses are richly detailed and stylistically nimble. Descriptors that should come to mind while reading these responses include: mastery, sophisticated, complex, specific, consistent, and well supported.
7-6
These highly competent responses demonstrate a comprehension of the prompt and respond to it directly, although some of the analysis may be implicit rather than explicit. The 7 response is in many ways a thinner version of the 9-8 paper in terms of discussion and supporting details, but it is still impressive, cogent, and generally convincing. It may also be less well handled in terms of organization, insight, or vocabulary. These responses demonstrate an adherence to the task, but deviate from course on occasion. The mechanics are sound, but may contain a few errors that may distract but do not obscure meaning. Although there may be a few minor misreadings, the inferences are for the most part accurate with no significant sustained misreadings. A response that scores a 6 is an upper-half paper, but it may be deficient in one of the essentials mentioned above. It may be less mature in thought or less well handled in terms of organization, syntax or mechanics. The analysis is somewhat more simplistic than found in a 7 response, and lacks sustained, mature analysis.
5
These responses may be overly simplistic in analysis, or rely almost exclusively on paraphrase rather than specific, textual examples. Nevertheless, these responses should be considered ultimately successful despite their flaws. These responses may provide a plausible reading, but the analysis is implicit rather than explicit. These responses might provide a list of story details and techniques present in the selection, but make little effort to discuss the effect that these devices have on the work as a whole. Descriptors that come to mind when reading include: superficial, vague, and mechanical. The language is simplistic and the insight is limited or lacking in development.
4-3
These lower-half responses compound the problems found in a 5 response. They often demonstrate significant sustained misreading, and provide little or no analysis. They maintain the general idea of the writing assignment, show some sense of organization, but are weak in content, maturity of thought, language facility, and/or mechanics. They may distort the topic or fail to deal adequately with one or more important aspects of the topic. Responses that are particularly poorly written may be scored a 3. Descriptors that come to mind while reading include: incomplete, oversimplified, meager, irrelevant, and insufficient.
2-1
These responses make an attempt to deal with the topic but demonstrate serious weakness in content and coherence and/or syntax and mechanics. Often, they are unacceptably short. They are poorly written on several counts, including numerous distracting errors in mechanics, and/or little clarity, coherence, or supporting evidence. Wholly vacuous, inept, and mechanically unsound reponses should be scored a 1.
0
A zero is given to a response with no more than a passing reference to the task.
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