Writing Potential Immigrant Journal Entries

Name____________________ Period 1 2 3 ⅚ 9 10

My Story Rubric

Awesome

4 Acceptable 3

Minimal 2

Unacceptable 1

Content Response to assigned topic thorough and well written, with varied sentence Structure and vocabulary; opinions always supported with facts

Response thoughtful and fairly well written; most opinions supported with facts

Response adequately addresses some aspects of the assigned topic; opinions some- times based on incorrect information

Response consists of unsupported opinions only marginally related to the topic

Idea Development

Excellent use of examples and details to explore and develop ideas and opinions

Good reliance upon examples and details to illustrate and develop ideas and opinions

Incomplete development of ideas; details and examples not always relevant

Ideas not clearly stated or developed

Organization

Very logically organized; contains introduction, development of main idea (or ideas), and conclusion

Contains intro- duction, some development of ideas, and conclusion

Topic and ideas discussed somewhat randomly; entry may lack clearly defined introduction or conclusion

Story is unstructured