ELA Standards Rubric

Criteria: Exceeded (5 pts.) Met (3 pts.) Approaching (1 pt.)

CCSS English Students have written Students have written Students have written
Language Arts narratives to develop narratives to develop narratives to develop
W.11-12.3 ​Write real or imagined real or imagined real or imagined
narratives to develop experiences or experiences or experiences.
real or imagined events using effective events using different
experiences or technique, techniques, details,
events using effective well-chosen and and well-structured
technique, elaborate details, and event sequences in
well-chosen details, well-structured event their journal entries.
and well-structured sequences in their
event sequences. journal entries.

CCSS English Students have Students have Students have

Language Arts produced clear and produced clear and produced clear and
W.11-12.4 ​Produce coherent writing in coherent writing in coherent writing.
clear and coherent which the which the
writing in which the development, development,
development, organization, and organization and
organization, and style are on task and style are on task.
style are appropriate appropriate to
to task, purpose, and purpose and
audience. audience.

CCSS English Students propel Students propel Students propel

Language Arts conversations by conversations by conversations by
SL.11-12.1C ​Propel posing and posing and posing and
conversations by responding to responding to responding to
posing and questions that probe questions that probe questions.
responding to reasoning and reasoning and
questions that probe evidence; ensure a evidence; ensure a
reasoning and hearing for a full hearing for a full
evidence; ensure a range of positions on range of positions on
hearing for a full a topic or issue; a topic or issue; and
range of positions on clarify, verify, or challenge ideas
a topic or issue; challenge ideas and during their service
clarify, verify, or conclusions; and learning.
challenge ideas and promote divergent
conclusions; and and creative
promote divergent perspectives during
and creative their service learning.
perspectives.
CCSS English Students use precise Students use precise Students write to
Language Arts words and phrases, words and phrases, convey vivid pictures
W.11-12.3D U ​ se telling details, and telling details, and of the experiences,
precise words and sensory language to sensory language. events, setting, or
phrases, telling convey a vivid picture characters.
details, and sensory of the experiences,
language to convey a events, setting,
vivid picture of the and/or characters.
experiences, events,
setting, and/or
characters.

CCSS English Students evaluate a Students evaluate a Students complete

Language Arts speaker’s point of speaker’s point of their theme music
SL.11-12.3 ​Evaluate view, reasoning, and view and reasoning, album project.
a speaker’s point of use of evidence and assessing the stance
view, reasoning, and rhetoric, assessing in their theme music
use of evidence and the stance, premises, album project.
rhetoric, assessing links among ideas,
the stance, premises, word choice, points of
links among ideas, emphasis, and tone
word choice, points of used in their theme
emphasis, and tone music album project.
used.

CCSS English Students make Students make use of Students complete

Language Arts strategic use of digital digital media, their mind map at the
SL.11-12.5 ​Make media, specifically specifically with end of the unit.
strategic use of digital with visual elements, visual elements, to
media (e.g., textual, in presentations to enhance
graphical, audio, enhance understanding of
visual, and interactive understanding of findings from the unit
elements) in findings, reasoning, in their mind map.
presentations to and evidence and to
enhance add interest by
understanding of completing their mind
findings, reasoning, map at the end of the
and evidence and to unit.
add interest.