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Teachers Name:
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Your Title:__________________________________
Standard Goals:
Writes fluently for a variety of occasions, audiences, and purposes making appropriate choices regarding style, tone,
level of detail and organization
Uses the reading process effectively by applying a variety of response strategies in order to relate what is read to
other texts and to his or her own experiences and feelings.
Constructs meaning from a wide range of texts by synthesizing information from multiple sources.
Assignment: Poetic Connections Essay
Find a poem that reminds you of a character, a theme, or an issue from the novel, __________. Write an essay or a
creative writing that illustrates how you connect the poem to the novel. Be sure to explain your thinking clearly with
specific examples.
Your purpose for this assignment is to explain.
Describe your audience:__________________________________________________
Evaluation: Dichotomous Scale 50 Possible Points
Self Evaluation 15 points _____
Peer Evaluation 15 points _____
Teacher Evaluation 20 points _____
Editor in Chiefs Evaluation
This is written for a specific audience Yes No
The writing explains the connection between the poem and novel Yes No
The writing is well organized Yes No
The writing contains specific and concrete details Yes No
The writing is free of the following errors:
All paragraphs have topic sentences Yes No
Support in each paragraph is well developed Yes No
All paragraphs have clincher sentences Yes No
Lee Ann Spillane
Self Evaluation
Describe how your writing is supposed to fit your audience?
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Did you explain how the poem and the novel are connected? Yes No
How many paragraphs make up your organization? _____
Do you use more than one specific and concrete detail in each paragraph? Yes No
Give an example of a specific detail you use to support a point youve made.
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Do all your paragraphs have topic sentences? Yes No
Do all your paragraphs have clincher sentences? Yes No
Tell me you used spell check! Yes No
Peer Evaluation
Are you part of the audience for whom this piece is written? Yes No
How does the writing appeal specifically to its audience?
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Did the writer explain how and why the poem connects to the novel ? Yes No
If YES, what does the poem remind them of in the novel? If NO, why not--what are they missing?
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How many paragraphs are there? _____
Do these paragraphs make the piece seem well organized? Yes No
Does the writer use specific details to support his or her opinions in each paragraph? Yes No
What are the strengths of this piece of writing?
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How could the writer revise either the beginning, middle or end of this piece or writer to make it clearer and or more
descriptive? Revise two sentences from either the beginning, middle or end as a suggestion to the writer.
Lee Ann Spillane