English class

Module One Reading Response Guidelines and Rubric

Overview

For this assignment, you will choose the text that will be used as the basis for the project in this course. Then, you will begin working with that text. Doing this will guide you in identifying key aspects of it. Specifically, this assignment will prepare you to identify the topic of the text, describe the writer’s purpose, determine the historical or cultural context, identify the core idea, and identify details of the text that are relevant to the core idea. You will continue to develop these skills in future assignments as you prepare to complete your project.

Directions

First, review the Article Selection section of this week’s resources and choose one to use as the text for this assignment and project. Next, explain why you chose the text. Then, address the prompts related to content, genre, purpose, context, core idea, and details of the text using the template linked in the What to Submit section.

Specifically, you must address the following:

1. Choose the text you will use for your project. Then, explain why you chose that text.
   1. What attracted you to the text?
   2. Why are you interested in it?
2. Identify the topic of the text.
   1. What is the text about?
3. Identify the genre of the text.
   1. What genre do you think the text was written in?
4. Describe the writer’s purpose.
   1. Why do you think that the writer wrote it?
5. Determine the historical context of the text.
   1. What do you think is the text’s historical context?
6. Determine the cultural context of the text.
   1. What do you think is the text’s cultural context?
7. Identify the core idea of the text.
8. Identify details of the text that are relevant to the core idea.
   1. What are two to four places in the text that support the core idea?

What to Submit

Submit your completed Module One Reading Response Template for grading. Although you will refer to your selected text in your assignment, you will not refer to any sources from outside this course.

Supporting Materials

The following resource will support your work on this assignment: 

Student Exemplar: Module One Reading Response Exemplar This is an example of a completed reading response template for this assignment. You may want to use this as a guide when addressing the rubric criteria for this assignment. This is the text that is the basis for the exemplar: What Everyone Needs to Know to Be More Productive. Please note that this is the article that will be used for all the assignment exemplars in the course and that this is not one of the article options for your own assignment.

Module One Reading Response Rubric

Criteria	Proficient (100%)	Needs Improvement (75%)	Not Evident (0%)	Value
Why	Explains why the text was chosen	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include explaining what attracted them to the text or why they are interested in it	Does not attempt criterion	15
Topic	Identifies the topic of the text	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include identifying the main topic of the text instead of a minor topic or an unrelated topic	Does not attempt criterion	10
Genre	Identifies the genre of the text	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include identifying a genre relevant to the text	Does not attempt criterion	10
Purpose	Describes the writer’s purpose	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include describing a specific purpose relevant to the text	Does not attempt criterion	10
Historical Context	Determines the historical context of the text	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include determining the historical context relevant to the text	Does not attempt criterion	10
Cultural Context	Determines the cultural context of the text	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include determining the cultural context relevant to the text	Does not attempt criterion	10
Core Idea	Identifies the core idea of the text	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include identifying the core idea of the text instead of a minor idea or identifying a core idea relevant to the text	Does not attempt criterion	10
Details	Identifies details of the text that are relevant to the core idea	Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include identifying details from the text or identifying details that are relevant to the core idea	Does not attempt criterion	15
Clear Communication	Consistently and effectively communicates in an organized way to a specific audience	Shows progress towards proficiency, but communication is inconsistent or ineffective in a way that negatively impacts understanding	Shows no evidence of consistent, effective, or organized communication	10
Total:	100%