Jackie Robinson: Innings and Beginnings

New York State Learning Standards
English Language Arts
Standard #1: Language for Information and Understanding

Task Specifications for Developing the Student-Generated Product/Process:

Use a combination of techniques (i.e. previewing, use of organizers, and structural cues) to extract salient information from text
Make perceptive and well developed connections to prior knowledge

Criteria	4 (95 - 100)	3 (85 - 94)	2 (80 - 84)	1 (not ready yet)
Thesis Statement	• Clear & focused • Captures esssence of comparison	• Focused • Captures essence of comparison	• Captures essence of comparison	• Unclear and/or unfocused and/or doesn't compare
Description of Characters	• Abundant relevant evidence from sources is provided and cited in MLA format	• Abundant evidence from sources is provided but may not be relevant or may be cited incorrectly	• Adequate evidence from source provided but may not be relevant or may be cited incorrectly	• Inadequate evidence from sources and may be sited incorrectly
Organization	• Ideas are well developed in logical order	• Ideas are somewhat developed in logical order	• Ideas need further development and/or better organization	• Ideas underdeveloped & not well organized
Comparison of impact on society	• Specific examples are given for the impact on society of each person	• Examples are given for the impact on society of each person	• Overemphasis on one person results in unbalanced comparison	• Insufficient examples to support comparison
Conventions	• Demonstrates control of the conventions of writing	• Demonstrates partial control with some errors that do not hinder comprehension	• Demonstrtes partial control with some errors that occasionally hinder comprehension	• Demonstrates a lack of control of the conventions with many errors that make comprehension difficult