Writing Assignment
Write a summary response to “Rice for Thanksgiving” that displays a clear understanding of the reading and is divided into two parts. The first part is a focused summary paragraph that briefly describes the author’s main idea, supporting ideas, and the author’s purpose. The second part is a detailed response paragraph that relates your own personal experience and opinions to the reading using your thesis statement, your supporting ideas, and your purpose. Both paragraphs should have clear topic sentences, supporting sentences, and concluding sentences. The grading rubric below will help you develop your paper.
Rubric
Your summary-response assignment will be graded using four separate categories for each paragraph: the Topic Sentence, the Supporting Ideas, the Concluding Sentence, and your overall use of Grammar and Punctuation for both paragraphs. Each of these four items will be rated as Proficient, Developing, or Needs Improvement.
Proficient means that you have met the standards of an effective summary-response. Developing means you have partially met the standards of a summary-response, but it needs some revision. Needs Improvement means you did not meet the standards of a summary- response.
SUMMARY PARAGRAPH
Proficient
Developing
Needs Improvement
Topic Sentence
Clearly states author’s main idea.
States an idea contained in the reading.
Does not include an idea from the reading.
Supporting Ideas
Relates author’s supporting ideas to the main idea.
Partially relates author’s supporting ideas to main idea.
Does not include supporting ideas from the reading.
Concluding Sentence
Identifies author’s purpose in writing the text.
Partially addresses author’s purpose in writing the text.
No concluding sentence is present.
Grammar & Punctuation
Paragraph contains complete sentences with little or no punctuation errors relating to the period or comma.
Paragraph contains some sentence fragments and/or run- on sentences and comma splices.
A lack of editing distracts the reader, making the paragraph feel like a rough draft.
RESPONSE PARAGRAPH
Proficient
Developing
Needs Improvement
Topic Sentence
Clearly states your main idea about the reading.
States an idea about the reading, but it’s not clear if it’s yours or the author’s.
Does not include an idea about the reading.
Supporting Ideas
Connects your personal experience to the reading and to your main idea.
Partially relates your personal experience to the reading.
Does not relate personal experience to the reading.
Concluding Sentence
Clearly relates your personal sentiment about the reading to the author’s main idea.
Relates a sentiment about the reading, but it’s not clear to the reader that it’s yours.
No concluding sentence is present.
Grammar & Punctuation
Paragraph contains complete sentences with little or no punctuation errors relating to the period or comma.
Paragraph contains some sentence fragments and/or run- on sentences and comma splices.
A lack of editing distracts the reader, making the paragraph feel like a rough draft.
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