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| INTRO | BODY 1 | BODY 2 | BODY 3 | BODY 4 | CONCLUSION |
| Organization | Land | Sea | Kolbert strong/not so strong | ||
| This paragraph should | You're using 3 paragraphs here. | You are writing "In conclusion" | How does she | ||
| introduce the book as a | I think that in 1 paragraph you | islands on dry land= | ocean acidification: | before you have created | bring these things |
| whole, not the organization | can summarize K's strategy for | fragments as per our | you're not telling the | your critique of the book | together? Take |
| of the book. Prologue is | laying out her argument. | question re "dark | story that K. tells re | as a whole. | another look at |
| very interesting, but must | Note that this book is both a | synergy." | calcification. | If Body 1 can explain K's | your Body 1. |
| move on…. | study of extinction and of the | What is the main problem? | strategy, Body 4 can | ||
| idea of extinction…. | better evaluate the result. | ||||
| 0.75 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.6 |
| /1 | /1 | /2 | /2 | /3 | /1 |
| Writing: free of distracting | Formatting: as per | ||||
| errors? Academic voice? | formatting sheet? | lots of rich details here. If you can rethink your Body 1, your entire | |||
| Base verb tense in present? | critique will be stronger. Note that as Crutzen tells us (see Test #3), there is | 8 | |||
| one central cause of the greatest problems we are causing on both land and sea. | /12.5 | ||||
| good academic voice | All good but must put your title | Perhaps we can talk before you rewrite. | |||
| in center; put teacher's name | |||||
| entails=/= enables | below yours, and put book | ||||
| sea creates? Piercing? | title in italics | /12.5 | |||
| 1 | 0.25 | ||||
| /1.5 | /1 | /25 | |||
In the 5th century B.C., Herodotus tells us, the king of Persia decided to attack the Greeks. All his advisors applauded except a certain Artabanus who pointed to 2 problems: the land and the sea. 2500 years later, a different form of attack is taking place: the expansion of the human species as a whole and the takeover by our species of the surface of the Earth. This is a process very different from a military invasion but the results may be far more devastating. Like Artabanus 2500 years ago, Elizabeth Kolbert points to the land and the sea. Describe Kolbert’s organization of chapters in The Sixth Extinction. Describe the threats to creatures living on land. Describe the threats to creatures living in the sea. What part of The Sixth Extinction best explains to you the overall crisis which our species is causing? Is there any way in which Kolbert fails to make her case?
