The Sound of Summer Running

Universal Theme
Directions: In a well written paragraph of 5 to 6 sentences, identify and explain the universal
message or theme that is represented by Douglass vision of summer in The Sound of Summer
Running by Ray Bradbury. Be sure to include specific quotations from the text to support your
analysis.

Claim

Evidence

Elaboration

Open Response Rubric Level 2

4
3
2
Clearly stated and
Clear and
Focused on a
strongly maintained
maintained claim,
claim but
claim with little or no though some
insufficiently
loosely related
loosely related
sustained or
material.
material may be
unclear.
present.
Smoothly integrated,
Generally
Weakly
thorough, and
integrated and
integrated
relevant evidence,
relevant evidence
evidence from
including precise
from sources,
sources and
references to sources. though references erratic irrelevant
may be general or
references.
imprecise.
Effective use of a
Adequate use of
variety of elaborative some elaborative
Repetitive or
techniques to support techniques to
ineffective use of
the claim,
support the claim
elaborative
demonstrating an
and demonstrate
techniques.
understanding of the
knowledge of the
topic and texts.
topic and texts.

The piece has no

Conventions
errors in conventions.

The piece has one

error in
conventions.

The piece has two

to four errors in
conventions.

1
Absent,
confusing, or
ambiguous claim.

Minimal, absent,
erroneous, or
irrelevant
evidence from
the source
material.

No elaboration is
present.

The piece has

more than four
errors in
conventions.

Notes:

Score: _________/4 = ___________