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The Lorax The Lorax Students are listening to The Lorax. They must determine the author's message in the story. Students must then write using the perspective of a plant or animal and discuss how the way humans live are affecting them, what they would like to see changed, and how it can be changed, supporting with three reasons Rubric Code: U2BCAC By pabaco Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: (none)

Lorax Enter rubric description
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 3 pts
Determine the author's message 1 pts Identify the purpose of the story. What were you supposed to learn?	Poor Student does not identify the author's message from the text	Fair Student attempts to explain the author's mesage from the text	Good Student successfully identifies the author's messge from the text
Taking the view of others 1 pts Write using the perspective of a plant or animal in the environment	Poor Student does not write from the perspective of a plant or animal in the environment	Fair Student attempts to write from the perspective of a plant or animal in the environment	Good Student successfully writes using the perspective of a plant or animal in the environment
Identify the impact of humans 1 pts How does the way humans live affect the environment?	Poor Student does not identify how the way humans live impacts the environment	Fair Student attempts to explain how humans live affects the environnment, supporting with one or two facts	Good Student successfully explains how the way humans live affects the environnment, supporting statemnt with three or more facts
What do they want to see changed? 1 pts Writer's must state what changes must be made and support with three reasons.	Poor Students do not identify ways to change and/or support opinion with reasons	Fair Students identify what needs to be changed, supports opinion with one or two facts	Good Students identify what needs to be changes, supporting opinion with three or more reasons
Spelling and Grammar 1 pts Did the student carefully check their work for spelling and grammar mistakes?	Poor Student has many misspelled words in writing, does not use correct grammar and punctuation rules	Fair Student has a few misspelled words and a few errors in grammar and punctuation	Good Student has no misspelled words and correctly uses grammar and punctuation conventions