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This page will explain how you will be graded.

Novels will be 15% of your overall Language Arts grade. Each novel guide will be graded according to the following rubric, and your teacher will score your answers based on your thoughtful responses.

 

Superior

Average

Poor

Basic Story Elements

You provided extensive and accurate answers for each of the questions at the beginning of the novel guide.

You provided accurate answers and enough detail for each of the questions at the beginning of the novel guide.

You answered the questions at the beginning of the novel guide, but provided few details, or some of your answers were not accurate.

Tracking Themes

In the Tracking Themes section, you successfully identified the main themes of the novel and you described how key elements of the novel help communicate its themes.

In the Tracking Themes section, you successfully identified a main theme of the novel and some of the elements that help communicate the theme.

In the Tracking Themes section, you identified at least one main theme of the novel but you did not identify the elements that helped to communicate the theme.

Talk About It! Discussion Questions

Your answers to the Talk About It! questions were thoughtful and fully explained, and you provided plenty of textual evidence to support your answers.

Your answers to the Talk About It! questions were thoughtful and fully explained, but you needed to provide more textual evidence to support your answers.

Your answers to the Talk About It! questions were thoughtful, but you needed to explain your ideas more completely and also provide more textual evidence to support your answers.

Represent! Novel Project

Your Represent! project provided a unique and thorough response to the project requirements—your project was especially well done!

Your Represent! project met all project requirements.

Your Represent! project met some project requirements, but not all of them.