Personal Narrative -- Final Grading

Grading (for printed off paper)
Notice that this assignment requires more than just printing off your paper. Make sure you've copied it, double-spaced it, and completed all of the following requirements:

Final Paper Grading Rubric
Points Received Points Possible Areas of Grading: Description and rationale for Grading Criteria
40 GoMyAccess Score 1.0 = 10 points
2.1 = 21 points
3.2 = 32 points
Grading (for printed off paper)
5.6 = 56 points

10 Connection to book
(ideas and content) 0-5 pts = paper does not talk about an experience of forgiveness at all (or contains very little about forgiveness) and does not connect to Words by Heart at all.
5-9 pts = paper talks personally about an experience of forgiveness, but writer did not connect personal experience to Words by Heart, or connected it fleetingly.
10 pts = paper talks personally about forgiveness and connects that experience to their life.

10 1st person Perspective / inclusion of dialogue/detail
(voice/word choice) 0-5 pts = paper does not resemble 1st person perspective at all. No dialogue is included. There is very little detail in the paper
5-9 pts = paper uses 1st person, but includes little or no dialogue or detail.
10 pts = paper uses 1st person perspective correctly. There are adequate amounts of dialogue and plenty of detail that gives insight into the thoughts and feelings of the individuals in the story.

10 Appropriate use of commas
(conventions) 0-5 = No commas were used or commas were placed in inappropriate places. Comma splices cause sentence fragments all throughout the paper or there are incomplete sentences that should be combined with other sentences by comma to make more sense in the paper.
5-9 pts = Commas are used correctly throughout the paper, but there are one or two situations that the comma could be used more correctly to eliminate sentence fragments or run-ons. There is no sentence with commas in a series.
10 pts = Commas are used correctly throughout the entire paper. There is at least 1 sentence that includes commas in a series and in the final draft they are underlined.

10 Capitalization and Punctuation
(conventions/ organization) 0-5 pts = Sentences are not capitalized and are missing appropriate punctuation (periods, quotation marks, question marks, etc).
5-9 pts = Most of the paper has appropriate capitalization and punctuation, but there are a few mistakes.
10 pts = There are no capitalization or punctuation errors in the paper.

10 Subject-Verb Agreement
(Sentence Fluency) 0-5 pts = There are no subjects or verbs underlined in the final draft and there are numerous problems with the subject-verb agreements throughout the paper.
5-9 pts = The final draft has underlined subjects and verbs, but they are either incorrect or there are less than three of them and other mistakes in the paper.
10 pts = The final draft has three underlined subjects and verbs and they are all correct. There may be minimal mistakes throughout the rest of the paper.

5 (+5 EC) Assignment Completion 0-5 pts = The Final paper is turned in after March 5/6.
Points lost if there is no Peer Review worksheet attached.

5 pts EC = The Final paper is turned in before March 5/6.
105 Total

Improving your GoMYAccess Grade

Getting a Better Grade on GoMYAccess

For a narrative, add detail, description. Mrs. John in our English writing lab showed the difference between ho-hmmm and Wow! writing --

The cat sat on the wall.
or
An orange and gold striped cat, who looked like an overripe thistle pod, placidly surveyed the garden from his comfortable spot atop the sun-warmed rock wall.

Mark Twain once said that the difference between the almost right word and the right word was the same as the difference between a lightning bug and lightning!

October 3, 2007

October 3, 2007
Today we went to computer lab to finish the SRI and to have a few students complete the GoMyAccess pretest.
Student groups for the term project could work on putting together a PowerPoint.
Students who were finished early had a chance to read for reading pages or just for recreation (if they were done with their 400 reading pages for the term.

We listened to The Outsiders from page 103 through
A1 page 112; A2 page 118; A3 page 114; A4 part way through page 116.