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Less than 85% 85% Greater than 85%

Rubric Categories
(Below Proficient) (Proficient) (Excel)

Students go above and

beyond with writing their
essays. Students can
Topics are not addressed Addressed all topics
Ideas relate the topics to real life
within papers assigned.
events that have occured
within their life or in the
community.

Doesn't flow well, Flows, no awkward

Sentence Fluency N/A
awkward phrasing phrasing

Less than 4 vocab words 4 vocab words used More than 4 vocab words
Vocabulary
per paper correctly per paper within each paper

Many spelling/punctuation Very few spelling,

No spelling, grammar,
mistakes, it makes it hard grammar, punctuation,
punctuation, caps &
Conventions to read the essays. caps & paragraph
paragraph structure works
Paragraph structure structure works well
well together
doesn't make sense together

MLA format, essay

Essay is not structured
structure is organized,
Organization properly, papers are out of N/A.
papers go in order when
order.
passed in.

Visual & text white space

Presentation Of Students tamper with are balanced, font size,
N/A
Essay normal formatting. spacing, borders, overall
appearance is appealing

Convincing, writer's voice

Writer's Voice Bland, non-compelling. N/A
heard

Aesthetically appealing, at
Less than 10 buildings (no
least 10 buildings (and More than 10 buildings
3-D World reasoning), can't access in
reasoning as to why they (with reasonings)
class.
are there), easy to access.

Grade

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