Final Assessment Project
English Language Arts 8 Unit 3 – Beneath the Ink
Objective: Create a poetry Wiki page that demonstrates your ability to: choose, analyze, respond to and create poetry. Criteria 1. Collection of poems o Examples of 3 different forms need to be chosen Blank Verse Haiku Limerick Cinquain Concrete Free Verse Diamante Narrative 2. Personal responses to each (paragraph form) o Did you like the poem? Why or Why not. o What was the poem about? Evidence 3. A Poem of your creation o Can be any form 4. Collaborative Segment o Edits on 3 Other Student Pages Ideas Grammar Could be in the form of a discussion thread or actual written editing on the page would show up in the revision history 5. Written Component Printed page(s) of your Wiki project List of collaborations that you participated in Personal reflection of what you learned about poetry in this unit – 1 Paragraph
Quality of Content
4 Design looks nice (coordinated, easy layout) Have all elements
3 2 Has all elements of Badly organized criteria Most elements of Design is the criteria organized
1 Did you do the assignment??? Lots missing
Quality of Grammar
No spelling or grammar errors. Uses descriptive words and types of sentences should vary.
Has little or no errors in spelling or grammar Errors, if present, do not interfere with the understanding Personal responses are made at a level that goes beyond the entertainment factor Personal responses use examples and vocabulary used in the unit. Analysis is justified with examples from the poem
Lots of errors in spelling or grammar. Repeating yourself. Doesn’t make sense. Explained at the entertainment level. Little or no vocabulary from the unit was used.
Almost unreadable. No conventions of spelling or grammar used.
Quality of Personal Responses
“Wow…” “I wish I could have done it like that.” Thoroughly explained – beyond the 5 sentence paragraph.
“What did you write about?”
Quality of Poetry Analysis
Examples are explained Analysis goes beyond the literal Dramatically helped a person in need Contributed in the “big” ideas for all 3 people
Analysis is literal Few examples are used. Contributed to 3 simplistic collaboration
Did you read the assignment?
Elements Collaboration
Contributed to 3 “meaningful” collaborations
Made less than 3 collaborations