RUBRIC

This rubric is a general guide. You may receive a checklist like this one to let you know how your log appeared to the teacher/reader. Does your own assessment agree with hers/his? If you wish to make another attempt, and submit improvements, you may do so up to a week after receiving this chart, on which Mr. H. will have marked where your paper falls on these criteria (which are taken from the //Criteria for Successful Log Entries// sheet).
 * Excellent: 91-100% || Good: 81-90% || Fair: 71-80% ||  ||
 * A thoughtful and complete response to work as a whole || A response to work as a whole || A limited or partial response to whole work ||  ||
 * ** analyzes text and reader’s experience ** || ** analyzes text and reader’s experience ** || ** Analyzes, but often merely reports instead of analyses ** ||  ||
 * Uses appropriate terminology regularly || Uses appropriate terminology occasionally || Uses little specialized vocabulary ||  ||
 * original ideas, opinions and interpretations, with abundant explanations || mainly reader’s ideas, opinions and interpretations, with

adequate support, explanation || reader’s original ideas, opinions and interpretations, lack support or explanations ||  ||
 * Little or no summarizing,

it tends to explore, discover, test, inquire, compare, contrast, connect and evaluate.

Uses a variety of meaning-making strategies. || It tends to explore yet not discover, test yet not evaluate, inquire yet not answer, compare and contrast yet not conclude. It may make vague rather than specific connections. It may retell, summarize, preach, or list without a clear purpose. || While asking questions or posing problems, it may not always attempt to answer or resolve them. It makes occasional connections among ideas within and outside of the text. ||  ||
 * The log shows abundant evidence of critical thinking, a reading of the entire work, and reflection by the student about her/his experience of reading the work. || The log shows evidence of critical thinking, a reading of the entire work, and reflection by the student about her/his experience of reading the work. It supports opinions and interpretations with brief or less effective explanations. It may reflect a limited number of strategies the reader has used to make meaning of her/his experience. || The log does show evidence of critical thinking, a reading of the entire work, and reflection by the student about her/his experience of reading the work, but it does not successfully communicate how the student has made meaning of the experience. ||  ||