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Compare/Contrast Essay: Book to movie - Freak the Mighty
Compare/Contrast Essay: Book to movie - Tuck Everlasting
The purpose of this rubric is to allow students to know what the expectations are for writing a comparing/contrasting essay encompasses.
Rubric Code:
WXW98C3
By
jastanton
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Subject:
English
Type:
Writing
Grade Levels:
6-8
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C/C Essay and Poetry
Excellent - 5
(N/A)
Good - 4
(N/A)
Fair - 3
(N/A)
Poor - 1
(N/A)
Sentence Structure
Excellent - 5
Sentences are of an appropriate length, make sense, and is free of subject/verb disagreements.
Good - 4
Sentences are of an appropriate length, mostly make sense, but there are some subject/verb disagreements.
Fair - 3
Essay contains many errors which are distracting to the reader.
Poor - 1
Essay is unreadable due to too many errors.
Comparison points
Excellent - 5
There are (3-4) three or four clear comparison examples between the movie and the book.
Good - 4
There are (2) two comparison examples between the movie and the book
Fair - 3
There is (1)one comparison example between the movie and the book .
Poor - 1
Student has not provided any comparison examples between the movie and the book.
Contrasting points
Excellent - 5
There are (3-4) three or four clear contrasting examples between the movie and the book.
Good - 4
There are (2) two clear contrasting examples between the movie and the book.
Fair - 3
There is (1) one clear contrasting example between the movie and the book.
Poor - 1
Student has not provided any contrasting examples between the movie and the book.
Topic Sentence
Excellent - 5
Student has topic sentences to introduce each paragraph.
Good - 4
Student has topic sentences, but they do not flow in a way to introduce paragraphs.
Fair - 3
Student has an introduction mentioning the subjects but not the topic of writing.
Poor - 1
Student does not have any topic sentences.
Transitions
Excellent - 5
The paper moves smoothly from one idea to the next. The paper uses comparison and contrast transition words to show relationships between ideas. The paper uses a variety of transitions.
Good - 4
The paper moves from one idea to the next, but there is little variety. The paper uses comparison and contrast transition words to show relationships between ideas.
Fair - 3
Some transitions work well; but connections between other ideas are fuzzy.
Poor - 1
The transitions between ideas are unclear or nonexistent.
Conventions
Excellent - 5
Writer makes 1 or no errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content.
Good - 4
Writer makes 2-3 errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content.
Fair - 3
Writer makes 4-5 errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content.
Poor - 1
Writer makes more than 5 errors in grammar spelling that distract the reader from the content.
Keywords:
Compare/Contrast Essay
Subjects:
Communication
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English
Journalism
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