Your five paragraph essay is due by the end of the day Monday, February 6th in hard copy form. Please include a title and your name. This will make up a major part of your communication mark for the term.
The complete magazine is due Friday, February 10th
The complete magazine is due Friday, February 10th
You will be graded using the following areas of the Grade 9 PAT Language
Arts rubric at this link. See this
post for an outline of how to write an essay. According to the Ministry of Education, this is an example of a 4.
Content:
Excellent
1. The student’s exploration of the topic is
insightful and/or imaginative.
Strategies: Develop your ideas and explain what you
mean. Use transitions:
Here we see that / This statement shows / Clearly, then, / We can conclude from this that / This tells us that / From this we can understand
that
2. The ideas presented by
the student are perceptive and/or carefully chosen.
Strategies: Try to identify carefully chosen reasons why your book should be in the curriculum and articulate these in a creative and sophisticated way.
Strategies: Try to identify carefully chosen reasons why your book should be in the curriculum and articulate these in a creative and sophisticated way.
3. Supporting details are
precise and/or original.
Strategies: These should be specific, and come in the form of quotes from your book or a reliable source.
Strategies: These should be specific, and come in the form of quotes from your book or a reliable source.
Organization:
Excellent
1. The introduction is
engaging and skillfully establishes a focus that is consistently sustained. Strategies: this link
2. Sentence beginnings
are often varied. Strategies: this link
3. Transitions, either
explicit or implicit, fluently connect events and/or details within sentences
and/or between paragraphs. Strategies: this link
Vocabulary:
Excellent
1. Precise words and
expressions are used to create vivid images and/or to enrich details.
Strategies: Consciously add
more descriptive, sophisticated language. Use powerful, more original verbs
(walked-sauntered, worked-toiled). Adopt adverb- verb combinations (slowly
sauntered; one must carefully consider).
Mechanics:
Excellent
1. The quality of the
writing is enhanced because it is essentially error-free.
2. Any errors that are
present do not reduce clarity and/or do not interrupt the flow of the
response.
Strategies: Proof read and
have a friend or peer look over your writing.
