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Summer Reading Assessments

Choice Essay due: 8/26 First Day of School
Summer Essay Prompt

Write a two to five page response to your choice book. The topic is “What makes this book worth studying as part of great British or American literature?”

Rubric

Impressive

Acceptable

Disappointing

Ideas

Writer convincingly and thoroughly answers the question with well-chosen evidence to support his/her ideas.

Writer answers the question with some appropriate evidence for support.

Writer does not address the question or doesn’t use appropriate evidence for support.

Understanding

Writing demonstrates an understanding of the complexity of the novel and of “great literature.”

Writing reveals accurate comprehension of the novel and the topic, but little insight.

Writing does not show knowledge of the novel or of its place in the cannon.

Conventions

-Grammar

-Spelling

Conventions errors are rare: they occur fewer than one time per paragraph.

Conventions errors provide only a minor distraction because they add up to one or two a paragraph.

Conventions errors distract the reader because they add up to more than two a paragraph.

Formatting

Paper follows the formatting guidelines with no more than 1 error or omission.

Paper makes an attempt to follow the formatting guidelines with 2-4 omissions or errors.

Paper does not attempt to follow the formatting guidelines and/or has 5 omissions or errors

Length

Paper is between two full pages and five pages.

Paper is over one page, but doesn’t fill two-thirds of the second page.

Paper is one and a quarter pages or less.

Frankenstein & Much Ado Test: 8/28 Thursday

Class members

Mrs. Blankenship (mblanken@wcboe.org)

What books can be used on the AP Test?

The College Board provides a list of possible books to use for each open response question, but also says that students can use "another work of comparable literary merit suitable to the topic." What works are comparable? The following is a list of some of the books that have been suggested for AP questions.

Books for AP.doc