Periods 5 & 6 Composition Grades

Part 1 of your overall composition grade for this midterm:
Your writing portfolio will have at least eight major pieces in it:

• “Best Sentence” handout fully completed
• “Score Record” handout fully completed with your SELF SCORE included for each writing    (also peer and teacher scores & comments)
• Boorstin essay with at least one revision
• EDM essay with at least one revision
• Creativity essay with optional revisions
• Slim essay with optional revisions
• Compassion essay with optional revisions
•  5 Introductions from 5 disparate prompts.

50 points
Completion Score: Did you include all of the above, neatly organized, fully completed?

Part 2 of your overall composition grade for this midterm (evaluative/reflective piece 2-4 pages double-spaced):

Composition Letter Grade Justification Metacognitive Essay/Reflection:
Your piece should reflect on and evaluate the processes that you used and the products you submitted.  Questions to consider:

•     How did you brainstorm/prewrite/plan for any or all essays and/or revisions?
•     How did you plan the supporting evidence/examples for any or all essays?
•     Did you use any resources for the revisions? Why? Why not? Details?
•      What did you do with any feedback you were given? How did you use it/apply it?
•     Are your scores increasing? Decreasing? Why? How?
•     What went wrong?
•     What went right?
•     What might you do differently in the future?
•     What is your specific strength--or strengths--as a writer?
•     What is your specific weakness --or weaknesses -- as a writer?
•     Is anything missing?
•     Is anything late?   
•     Did you revise any pieces or portions of pieces that were not required revisions? Why? Why not?
•     Have you considered what is important? How?
•     Have you avoided what is important? How? Why?

The above list is simply a list of some questions to help you think about your writing; you do not have to answer these directly. Think. Write.

At some point in your reflection --in a separate block -- you will need to address three items:
1. What single, measurable goal should you set for yourself as a writer and what will you do to reach that goal?
2. Choose one sentence that you wrote; analyze why it is your best sentence so far.
3. What single grade (letter or percentage) should all of this work --all seven pieces --receive? Please remember that a C (75% means “average” -- you were asked to do something and you did that.  A “B” or “A” would obviously go beyond in various ways and to various degrees.

Honesty, insight, thoroughness are key.

100 points
Evaluative Percentage per Justification and Conference