Paired Reading Project Rubric
Criteria
4 (exceeding standards)
3 (meeting standards)
2 (Approaching standards)
1 (Far below the standards)
Choosing significant passages
Students have chosen the most significant passages that add to the meaning of the novel.
Students have chosen significant passages that develop the meaning of the novel.
Students have chosen 10 passages in the novel that are meaningful.
Students have chosen 10 passages without thought.
Analysis of the passages
Each analysis is thoughtful and insightful. The students can recognize and understand the significance of a wide range of literary elements and use those
elements to interpret all the passages.
The students can recognize and understand the significance of a wide range of literary elements and use those
elements to interpret all of the passages.
The students can recognize and understand the significance of a wide range of literary elements and use those
elements to interpret most of the passages.
The students describe what is happening in the passages instead of analyzing the significance of the passages.
Conventions
The final draft shows evidence of thorough editing. In addition to editing moves we have discussed in class, the author has found other errors to correct.
The final draft shows evidence of editing. The piece does not contain errors that were addressed in class.
There is some evidence of editing. There are some places where words are missing or phrasing is awkward. Some mistakes addressed in class lessons remain.
There is little evidence of the editing process. The final draft may be the only draft included or the final draft may not show evidence of any editing strategies from class.
I tried to get the whole box but it wouldn't come up this is all I could get
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
POINT OF VIEW passage on page # 129 PASSAGE # 1
Jem was twelve. He was difficult to live with, inconsistent,moody. His appetite was appaling, and he told me so many times to stop pestering him I consulted Atticus:
In this passage the main character SCout is telling us what's going on with her brother Jem through her eyes. NO one else is narrating the story just Scout. SHe uses the words difficult to live with, inconsistent, and moody. NO one else in the story could say it like her, because it is coming from her point of view.
Being that she lives with him she can say that he goes through all different moods at the same time. She knows. This is a significant passage because we see that Jem is growing. As Jem is growing so is Scout, and she is narrating the book at many different ages.
MAYA
In this passage the main character SCout is telling us what's going on with her brother Jem through her eyes. NO one else is narrating the story just Scout. SHe uses the words difficult to live with, inconsistent, and moody. NO one else in the story could say it like her, because it is coming from her point of view.
Being that she lives with him she can say that he goes through all different moods at the same time. She knows. This is a significant passage because we see that Jem is growing. As Jem is growing so is Scout, and she is narrating the book at many different ages.
MAYA
TOUGH SCOUT passage on page # 25 PASSAGE # 2
Catching Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard gave me some pleasure, but when I was rubbing his nose in the dirt Jem came by and told me to stop. "your'e bigger'n he is" he said.
"He's as old as you, nearly," I said. "He made me start off on the wrong foot."
"Let him go, Scout.Why?
Walter Cunningham has gotten SCout in trouble. She is really mad. She dosen't just scream about it to her friends like most girls. Scout goes and beats him up. She is really tough! It says that he's nearly the same age as Jem, and Jem is four years older than her.
She really has guts. Not only is she beating up a boy and winning, but the boy is older than her. THe signigance of this passage was to show how tough and fearless SCout is. She was not afraid to stand up for herself. She was not intimidated by Walter's age. Or his gender. AT that moment and time she was tough SCout, who wasn't afraid of anyone.
Maya
"He's as old as you, nearly," I said. "He made me start off on the wrong foot."
"Let him go, Scout.Why?
Walter Cunningham has gotten SCout in trouble. She is really mad. She dosen't just scream about it to her friends like most girls. Scout goes and beats him up. She is really tough! It says that he's nearly the same age as Jem, and Jem is four years older than her.
She really has guts. Not only is she beating up a boy and winning, but the boy is older than her. THe signigance of this passage was to show how tough and fearless SCout is. She was not afraid to stand up for herself. She was not intimidated by Walter's age. Or his gender. AT that moment and time she was tough SCout, who wasn't afraid of anyone.
Maya
IMAGERY passage on page # 47 PASSAGE # 3
"pull it up, child, pull it up?" she picked up the limp sprout and squeezed her thumb up its tiny stalk. Microscopic grains oozed out."Why, one spring of nut-grass can ruin a whole yard. Look here. When it comes fall this dries up and the wind blows it all over MAycomb country!" Miss Maudie's faced likened such an occurence unto an old testament pestilence.
Imagery helps a reader better understand a story. It helps make a movie in your mind just from the words on the page. The signifigance of this passage is to show how Scout is finding a friend in Miss Maudie. Miss Maudie might be a lot older than Scout but they are doing something that young friends do together, and it sounds fun.
From this passage and the imagery used I can imagine a wrinkled vegetable looking object. Then I can see it being squeezed, and the things comeing out of it, I see a really gross picture. Out of that passage I was able to create a movie in my head.
MAYA
Imagery helps a reader better understand a story. It helps make a movie in your mind just from the words on the page. The signifigance of this passage is to show how Scout is finding a friend in Miss Maudie. Miss Maudie might be a lot older than Scout but they are doing something that young friends do together, and it sounds fun.
From this passage and the imagery used I can imagine a wrinkled vegetable looking object. Then I can see it being squeezed, and the things comeing out of it, I see a really gross picture. Out of that passage I was able to create a movie in my head.
MAYA
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE passage on page #25 PASSAGE # 4
Walter looked as if he had been raised on fish food: his eyes, as blue as Dill Harris's, were red rimmed and watery. There was no color in his face except at the tip of his nose, which was moistly pink. He fingered the straps of his overalls, nervously picking at the metal hooks.
In this passage Scout describes the look on Walter's face. He has gotten her into trouble so she beats him up. In the middle of beating up Walter her brother Jem comes and tells her to stop. She uses a simile. A simile is when you compare two unlike things using the words like or as. In the first sentence she uses as. She says he looks like he only eats fish food. This simile is showing how poor and skinny Walter looks. This is a signifigant passage because the author is showing the poor people of Scout's town.
Fish food is not regular food, and humans would not be able to survive on it. Walter must be really skinny looking, like he dosen't get alot of meals at home. If he does the aren't big meals. Also there is no color in his face as if he's sick but his family can't afford a doctor visit or medicine.
MAYA
In this passage Scout describes the look on Walter's face. He has gotten her into trouble so she beats him up. In the middle of beating up Walter her brother Jem comes and tells her to stop. She uses a simile. A simile is when you compare two unlike things using the words like or as. In the first sentence she uses as. She says he looks like he only eats fish food. This simile is showing how poor and skinny Walter looks. This is a signifigant passage because the author is showing the poor people of Scout's town.
Fish food is not regular food, and humans would not be able to survive on it. Walter must be really skinny looking, like he dosen't get alot of meals at home. If he does the aren't big meals. Also there is no color in his face as if he's sick but his family can't afford a doctor visit or medicine.
MAYA
POINT OF VIEW passage on page 135 PASSAGE # 5
The warm bittersweet smell of clean Negro welcomed us as we entered the church-Hearts of Love hairdressing mingled with asafoetida, snuff, Hoyt's cologne, Brown's Mule,peppermint and lilac talum.
When they saw Jem and me with Calpurnia, the men stopped back and took off their hats;the women crossed their arms at their waists, weekday gestures of respectful attention. They patted and made a small pathway to the church door for us. Calpurnia walked between Jem and me, responding to the greetings of her brightly clad neighbors.
"What you up to, Miss Cal?" said a voice behind us.
Calpurnia's hands went to our shoulders and we stopped and looked around:standing in the path behind us was a tall Negro woman. Her weight was on one leg;she rested her left elbow in the curve of her hip, pointing at us with upturned palm. She was bullet-headed with strange almond shaped eyes, straight nose, and an Indian-bow mouth. She seemed seven feet high.
Scout is the narrator of this story. SHe shows a lot of personality, and never hides her true feelings. In this passage she describes how everything she sees smells, and looks. The way the people look, and the movement they make. From the way she is describing this experience, I can see she dosen't do this often.
She describes the smells with a lot of different scents that all come together to make the smell she smells. NO one else could come up with all those different smells, because it's her point of view. She describes the tall woman as bullet-headed, strange almond shaped eyes, straight nose, an Indian Bow mouth, and seven feet high. I would never be able to describe the same person the way Scout did. Because I am not SCout. It's all from her point of view. THe significance of this passage is to show the racial tension between the white children walking into a black church with a white woman. Everyone is not greeting them, they're just staring.
Maya
When they saw Jem and me with Calpurnia, the men stopped back and took off their hats;the women crossed their arms at their waists, weekday gestures of respectful attention. They patted and made a small pathway to the church door for us. Calpurnia walked between Jem and me, responding to the greetings of her brightly clad neighbors.
"What you up to, Miss Cal?" said a voice behind us.
Calpurnia's hands went to our shoulders and we stopped and looked around:standing in the path behind us was a tall Negro woman. Her weight was on one leg;she rested her left elbow in the curve of her hip, pointing at us with upturned palm. She was bullet-headed with strange almond shaped eyes, straight nose, and an Indian-bow mouth. She seemed seven feet high.
Scout is the narrator of this story. SHe shows a lot of personality, and never hides her true feelings. In this passage she describes how everything she sees smells, and looks. The way the people look, and the movement they make. From the way she is describing this experience, I can see she dosen't do this often.
She describes the smells with a lot of different scents that all come together to make the smell she smells. NO one else could come up with all those different smells, because it's her point of view. She describes the tall woman as bullet-headed, strange almond shaped eyes, straight nose, an Indian Bow mouth, and seven feet high. I would never be able to describe the same person the way Scout did. Because I am not SCout. It's all from her point of view. THe significance of this passage is to show the racial tension between the white children walking into a black church with a white woman. Everyone is not greeting them, they're just staring.
Maya
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