English 1A Essay #3 Handout
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English 1A
Essay #3 Handout
Assignment Due Date Point Value
Outline and Five Points
Annotated Bibliography See Calendar Fifteen Points
Rough Draft See Calendar Ten Points
Final Draft See Calendar One Hundred-Fifty Points
Isabel Wilkerson in Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents provides readers an introduction into the manners in which America has a caste system. She also provides parallels to the Indian caste system and the manner in which Germany’s Third Reich used the American legal code to create their own legal system of alienating and persecuting their citizenry of Jewish ancestry.
In a well-written essay, students should address one of the following prompts:
. Explain the manners in which she compares and contrasts the experience of Dalits in India and African- Americans in America. In the process, compare and contrast the manner in which both countries evolve through their own civil rights movement.
. Explain how she compares and contrasts racism, including justification and implementation, in Germany during the 1920’s and 30’s to America. Also, analyze how America provided the “classic example” (Wilkerson 82) of ‘race’ laws.
Regardless of which prompt students choose they need to include three other valid, peer reviewed secondary sources from Academic Search Complete or JSTOR Database that have analyzed relevant themes to support said essay. Essays who do not use peer reviewed secondary sources will not receive a passing grade, and the rubric will not apply.
The essay will be graded in the following areas with the point value occurring in parentheses:
Focus: a clear thesis statement within a well-written introduction that threads through each paragraph and concluding paragraph (50).
Development: elaborates the response with well-chosen examples and persuasive reasoning (50).
Coherence/Organization: conforms to an organizational pattern that facilitates reader understanding, using
organizational patterns to demonstrate the relatedness of ideas and to enhance the power of the argument (15).
Style: displays a sophisticated style that reflects aptly chosen words and rhetorically effective sentence variety (15).
Conventions of Standard Written English and the most current edition of MLA Citation Format: exhibits mastery of the conventions and MLA citation format as well as other elements of MLA format (20).
So, the essay portion of the assignment is worth a grand total of one hundred and thirty points.
Note: If the mechanics, usage, grammar, and/or syntax of the essay make the content of the essay incomprehensible, then this rubric cannot apply, and the essay cannot receive a passing grade.
Also, if the essay does not respond to what the prompt is requesting, then this rubric cannot apply, and the essay cannot receive a passing grade.
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Trait |
A |
B |
C |
D |
F |
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Focus (controlled by a thesis and followed with topic sentences) /50 |
Presents a convincing, thesis driven analysis |
Presents a thoughtful, thesis- centered analysis |
Presents an appropriate, thesis-based analysis |
Presents a simplistic thesis based analysis |
Presents an inadequate or incoherent thesis that is not followed through |
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Development/ Support/ Elaboration /50 |
Uses well-chosen concrete examples with persuasive reasoning |
Uses appropriate concrete examples and logical reasoning |
Uses acceptable concrete examples and sensible reasoning |
Uses concrete examples that lack elaboration or inappropriate examples |
Uses vague examples, no examples, or invalid examples |
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Coherence/ Organization /15 |
Facilitates reader understanding demonstrating the relatedness of ideas and enhances the power of the argument |
Facilitates reader understanding and conveys the argument |
Facilitates reader understanding and illustrates the argument |
Organizational pattern deviates so that structures may detract from the argument |
Lacks appropriate organizational pattern |
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Style
/15 |
Sophisticated style that reflects aptly chosen words and rhetorically effective sentence variety |
A readable style that reflects well- chosen words and effective sentence variety |
A style that reflects appropriate words and sentence variety |
A style that uses imprecise word choice and little sentence variety |
Simplistic word choice, monotonous or fragmented sentence structure, or syntax errors obscure meaning |
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Conventions of Standard Written English
/10 |
Mastery of standard written English |
Competence in standard written English with only a couple of errors |
Observes conventions and a few errors that stray from standard written English |
May stray from and may display many repeated errors in grammar, mechanics, and usage |
Consistently deviates with pervasive errors in grammar, mechanics, and usage that may inhibit meaning |
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MLA Citation Format /10 |
Mastery of the conventions of MLA format |
Competence of MLA format and of |
Average accuracy |
Below average accuracy |
Completely innaccurate |
2024-01-31