Derdiger

Am. Lit.

Unit 4 Assessment
Regionalism and Naturalism

For this unit’s assessment, we are going to focus primarily on the experiences portrayed in works of literature written by
female authors. Women have been an underrepresented group in this course so far, but were beginning to make
themselves well known at this time.

For your assessment, you will be writing a literary analysis of the writings we’ve gone over in this unit. You should:

 Focus on the writings by female authors

 Assess the themes present in these writings
 Analyze the authors’ purposes in writing the texts
 Assess women’s experiences and treatment of the time and explain how writing about their experiences
validated them within society

Here’s how you will be graded:

Criteria 4 3
Analysis of Student thoroughly
Themes analyzed the themes
x2 presented in the texts,
including making
unique observations
about the material.
Analysis of Student thoroughly
Author’s analyzed the authors’
Purpose purposes as presented
x2 in the texts, including
making unique
observations about the
material.
Analysis of Student thoroughly
Subject analyzed the subject of
(women’s women’s experiences
experiences as presented in the
in the late texts, including making
1800s, early unique observations
1900s) about the material.
Evidence Student cited more
than 3 pieces of strong
evidence from the text.
Conventions Student’s writing
and contained minute
Grammar errors in conventions,
which did not impact
the clarity of the
writing
Length 600+ words
2 1
Student used analytical Student provided Student did not analyze
skills to explain the minimal analysis of themes of the texts.
significance of the themes of the texts.
themes of the text.
Student used analytical Student provided Student did not analyze
skills to explore the minimal analysis of the author’s purpose.
author’s purpose of the author’s purpose of the
texts. texts.
Student used analytical Student provided Student did not analyze
skills to explore the minimal analysis of the the subject of the texts.
subjects written about subject of women’s
in the texts. experiences as
presented in the texts.
Student cited 3 pieces Student cited 1-2 Student did not cite
of strong evidence from pieces of evidence from evidence from the texts
the text. the text OR not all OR evidence cited did
evidence supported the not support the claim.
claim.
Student’s writing Student’s writing Student’s writing was
contained a few errors contained many errors very unclear due to
in conventions, which in conventions, which many errors in
only mildly impacted made the writing a bit conventions.
the clarity of the difficult to understand.
writing.
500-599 400-499 Fewer than 400 words