Wednesday

  Today you should be finishing your essays. Once you finish them, and I check them off, you need to put them on note cards and begin to practice reading them.

 

ORAL RUBRIC

 

Criteria	Exceeds Standard (4)	Meets Standard (3)	Needs Improvement (2)
Volume: How well you can be heard	Voice is loud and clear without the student yelling.  All words are heard.  Student projects words from their diaphragm.	Voice is loud throughout most of presentation.  One or more words might be lost because of projection of volume, but the idea is still clear.	Voice fades in places so that the listener loses or misses parts of the presentation, or parts of the idea
Pronunciation: How well you say all your words	Words are pronounced perfectly and sentences flow off of tongue	The speaker trips in one or two places either in the pronunciation of a word or in reading a sentence.  The presentation is effected only slightly by the mistakes.	The speaker trips in quite a few places.  The presentation is effected more than slightly by the mistakes.   Mistakes either make the presentation hard to listen to or cloud the ideas of the writing
Tone: Do you vary how you say your sentences	Speaker as Actor:  The speaker’s delivery makes the writing come alive by giving it emotion, character, emphasis, by breathing life into it	Speaker varies most of sentences to express emotion or to emphasis importance of parts, but there are still places when the speaker spoke in a lifeless monotone	Speaker speaks in a monotone that reveals no emotion or does not emphasis any importance on any idea
UHMS or AHS	NONE	1 or 2 but the uhms or ahs do not distract the presentation	3 or more uhms or ahs
Eye Contact: do you look at your audience	The speaker made a point to look at everyone in the room and rarely looked as if they were reading from a paper	Some eye contact is made, but mostly the presenter read off of his or her paper	Little or no eye contact.

 

Expository Essay Rubric

	Thesis	Organization	Evidence (Concrete Details)	Analysis (Commentary)	Style/Audience	Conventions
4	The thesis statement is clear, well-developed and relevant to the topic.  It is engaging.	Transitions within and between paragraphs flow smoothly	There are three well chosen, concrete details/evidence from the text in each paragraph. ** The concrete details support the thesis	All commentary synthesizes and supports the thesis statement. **	The style is engaging and effective	The essay contains few if any errors in the conventions* of the English language
3	The thesis statement is clear and relevant to the topic	There structure within paragraphs is easy to follow	There are two to three details from the text.  The details support the thesis.	Some or most of the commentary explains concrete details and supports the thesis	The style is appropriate for an academic paper	The essay contains some errors in the conventions of the English language.  Errors do not interfere with the reader’s understanding of the essay.
2	The thesis is not relevant to topic or is not clear	The essay is missing an introduction, body or concluding paragraph	There are some concrete details.	Commentary is either unclear or irrelevant and does not support the thesis	They style is sometimes appropriate for an academic paper.	The essay contains several errors in the conventions of the English language.
1	No Thesis	Little organization.	No concrete details	No commentary	Style is not appropriate for an academic paper.