English 10 Blogging Rubric

The following rubric is being used to assess your blog comments and responses and to assign you a numeric score towards your fourth quarter average.  If you have any questions about it, please ask them by posting them as comments.

Qualities Assessed	Excellent (5 points)	Proficient (4 points)	Developing (3 points)	Unsatisfactory (0-2 points)
Comprehension: the extent to which the response exhibits sound understanding and analysis of the assigned task and text.	-exhibits in-depth understanding by providing thoughtful reflection that cites strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis	-exhibits a  reasonable understanding by providing a sensible reflection that cites implicit and relevant textual evidence to support analysis	-exhibits a simple understanding by providing a basic reflection that may mention textual evidence but does adequately support analysis	-exhibits confused or incomplete understanding by providing minimal or inaccurate reflection that does not use textual evidence to support analysis
Analysis: the extent to which the assigned text is examined as the a basis for interpretation and discussion	- reveals what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text	-reveals what the text says literally as well as conclusions drawn from the text	-makes  superficial connections between the task and text -may rely on summary of text	-reveals minimal or no examination of the chosen texts -references to the text are vague, irrelevant,  or unjustified
Development: the extent to which ideas are elaborated using specific and relevant evidence from the text	-develop ideas clearly and fully, making effective use of valid reasoning and a wide range of relevant and specific evidence	-develop ideas clearly and consistently, with valid reasoning and adequate reference to relevant and specific evidence	-develop some ideas more fully than others, using some reasoning and some evidence from the text	- are incomplete or largely undeveloped, hinting at ideas, but reasoning is flawed or off topic
Writing: the extent to which writing is clear, coherent, and appropriate to communication with peers and others (e.g. teacher) in an academic setting and on an important academic topic.	-use language that is fluent and original, with evident awareness of audience and purpose - demonstrate control of the conventions with essentially no language errors	-use appropriate language, with some awareness of  audience and purpose --demonstrate control of the conventions, exhibiting occasional language errors	-rely on basic vocabulary, with little awareness of audience or purpose --demonstrate partial control, exhibiting several language errors	-use language that is imprecise or inappropriate for the audience or purpose, or that is incoherent -demonstrate a lack of control, exhibiting frequent errors that make comprehension difficult