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Organizer for Crash writing assignment

Name one theme from Crash:

Introduction: Recap the story then add the thesis statement.State the theme from the story you’ll be explaining

1st body: Explain the first example from the story and how it supports your theme

2nd body: Explain the second example from the story and how it supports your theme

Conclusion: Relate the story to yourself and add any conclusions you have made from reading this story

Checklist for Proofreading

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Spelling

Have you spelled all of the words correctly?

Have you used the dictionary? (Read your writing backwards one word at a time when you check for spelling. Then you can’t help but focus on each word and check it for spelling.)

Punctuation

Does each sentence end with an end punctuation mark?

Have you placed commas before the conjunctions and, but, or in compound sentences?

Have you used commas to set off items in a series?

Are apostrophes in place to show possession or to mark contractions?

Have you properly punctuated any conversation with quotation marks?

Capitalization

Have you started sentences and conversation with a capital letter?

Have you capitalized specific people, places, or things?

Usage

Have you misused any of the commonly mixed homonyms such as there, their,they’re, to, too, two, its, it’s, our, are, your, you’re?

Grammar

Do your subjects and verbs agree?

Have you kept your verb tenses consistent?

Have you used any sentence fragments or run-on sentences?

Benchmarks

7.3.1 Identify and analyze two events from Crash

7.3.6 Explain personal connection

7.4.1Insightful response to the story and reflection on learning

7.5.1 Thoroughly connected two details to the theme with multiple details

7.5.2 Writing included an introduction stating the theme, two examples from the story and a conclusion that explained how the writer related to the story.

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Assignment: Write a four paragraph essay identifying and analyzing a theme from Crash. In the conclusion, explain how the story relates to you or any conclusions you might have made after reading this essay.

4Advanced / 3 Proficient / 2 Partially Proficient / 1Well Below
7.3.1 – Interpretive Stance / Identify and thoroughly analyze two events from Crash that relate to the theme you chose. / Indentified and analyzed two events from Crash that relate to the theme you chose. / Identified and analyzed only one event from Crash that related to the theme / Identified but did not analyze event(s) from Crash that related to the theme you chose.
7.3.6 – Personal Connection / Insightfully explained how your own life experiences relate to the story or to the theme you explained. / Explained how your own life experiences relate to the story or to the theme you explained. / Explained superficially how your own life experiences relate to the story or the theme. / Explained in an unclear manner how your own life experiences relate to the story or the theme.
7.4.1 – Range of Writing / Wrote an insightful response to the story and an insightful reflection on learning that conveyed understanding. / Wrote a response to the story and a reflection on learning that conveyed understanding. / Wrote a response to the story and a reflection on learning that lacked evidence of understanding. / Only wrote a response to the story or a reflection on learning that lacked evidence of understanding.
7.5.1 – Meaning / Thoroughly connected two examples from the story to the theme using multiple details. / Connected two examples from the story to the theme using details. / Superficially connected two examples from the story to the theme using some details. / Connected only one or two examples from the story to the theme in an unclear way.
7.5.2 - Design / Writing included an introduction stating the theme, two examples from the story and a conclusion that explained how the writer related to the story. / Writing lacked one of the following sections: an introduction stating the theme, two examples from the story or a conclusion that explained how the writer related to the story. / Writing lacked two of the following sections: an introduction stating the theme, two examples from the story or a conclusion that explained how the writer related to the story. / Writing lacked three or more of the following sections: an introduction stating the theme, two examples from the story or a conclusion that explained how the writer related to the story.