Nonfiction Summative Rubric for Perseverance

Before writing/ as youre writing your Real World Product (RWP), please consider the following: 1) What words are going into your writing that your readers (audience/peers) might not know? Perhaps these are words specific to your topic; if someone had never heard of the holocaust, how would you describe a concentration camp? You will need to leave context clues for these words so that your readers understand them. 2) What information or words might you not have to describe in detail because you think your reader might already have some background information on the topic. For example, we know most people have heard of how Hitler felt about Jewish people, so you might not need to include that in a paper about concentration camps. You will need to know what your readers can infer from what you dont include in your writing; youll need to know what background knowledge they already have. 3) To draw in the reader, to gain the readers attention, you will want to hook their attention. To do so, you are really asking them to make a connection to what youre writing. What connection can you have them make to your topic? This should be the first, or first couple sentences of your writing. 4) Regardless of the type of RWP you pick, whether magazine article, essay, blog, or newspaper article, each section or paragraph of your writing should have main ideas in the form of topic sentences. Remember, a topic sentence is what the section/paragraph will be about. You will need to look at each paragraph you write and make sure that you have determined whats most important and put it as your topic sentence. 5) You should be able to determine the most important parts of your writing so well that you could write a summary of your RWP and compare it to any other person who read your RWP and have your summaries be the same thing. Think of the format for a nonfiction summary (topic, main ideas, big idea). 6) Consider how you will conclude your writing. As your conclusion is not a summary of what youve written so far, but an extension, a so what of what youve written, think about what is the next (thick) question someone might ask to further their understanding about your topic if they continued the research that you started. After writing your paper reflect on the answers to the following questions/prompts on a separate sheet of paper (the answer to these questions is your grade). Make sure to look above for extra guidance: 1) Context Clues ___/2: Provide one example of a context clue that you provided in your paper and how you know its a context clue. 2) Inference___/2: Provide one example of an inference you expect a reader to make and how you know its an inference. 3) Connection___/2: Provide your reasoning for your hook and how your readers will connect to it. 4) Determining Importance___/2: Pick 1 topic sentence you wrote and explain how you determined it to be the most important information of the paragraph (no details). 5) Summary___/2: Explain why the summary you wrote for your RWP would be the same exact one anyone else would write. Think about what a summary in nonfiction is composed of. 6) Questioning___/2: Based on your conclusion, what is one thick question a reader would ask to extend the research that you started. Why? You will need to show proficiency of the six reading comprehension skills listed above in order to prove the seventh skill for this unit, self-monitoring. ___/2

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