Journal Rating Scale

Desired Trait

2 points

1 point

Completion

Warm-up assignments exceed the minimum page requirement (1/2 page)

Non warm-up activities should have all components finished

Warm-up activity is not over the minimum page requirement (1/2 page)

Other activities are superficially finished, or not finished at all

Support for your ideas

- If you argue something, you give specific reasons why you believe that

- If you are comparing, you give three clear characteristics for comparison

- If you are writing a story, you describe in detail using your five senses

- Your arguments are weakly supports by reasons

- Your comparisons have fewer than three or have undeveloped characteristics

- Your story superficially describes events and characters

Understanding of Topic

Your writing shows a clear understanding of the topic we are learning and stays directly related to the topic

Your writing shows limited understanding of the topic, or wanders to unrelated themes

Completion

C

1.5

C

1.5

1.5

Suport of your ideas

S

1.5

S

2

2

Understanding of Topic

U

2

U

2

2

Total

5.5 (of 6 possible points)

11 (out of 12 possible points for a 2-page assignment)