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**Student: Matteo Cosentino** **85 overall points. See all of my comments. Raise the grade. Go for 100. Do this before next Friday, January 27, please.** **You have a fine mind, Matteo, and you continue to impress me with the high quality of your work, of your maturity and responsibility, your leadership skills, and your very respectful and kind nature. Please make the below corrections to raise the grade. Ok?** **Mr. Baskin** **1/18/12**


 * Grading Points Rubric for Essential-Question Essay on __The River__**

**10 pts. earned.**
 * 1) **Introduction Paragraph:** Thesis/topic sentence; at least three traits stated; explanation of how the essay will proceed.
 * Maximum Number of Points: 10 POINTS EARNED:**

15 pts. earned.
 * 1) **Traits Paragraph:** List the traits; define each trait; provide a brief example from the novel for the trait.
 * Maximum Number of Points: 15 POINTS EARNED:**

10 pts. How does the conflict change and how does it stay the same? Try to capture the essence.
 * 1) **Conflict Paragraph:** Description of the conflict at the beginning of the novel; description of how the conflict changes; explanation of what is similar to and different between the two conflicts.
 * Maximum Number of Points: 15 POINTS EARNED:**

Sixty-seven blanks to use the following thinking-process terms: observe or observation; wonder or reflect or reflection; name or naming or identify or identification; consider alternatives or options or considering; predict or predicting or prediction; choose a solution or make a choice or solve or choose; make a plan or prepare a plan or plan; gather resources; act or do or perform a solution. **25 points. Full credit.**
 * 1) **Fill-in-the-Blanks Paragraphs on the Thinking Process/Problem Solving:**
 * Maximum Number of Points: 25 POINTS EARNED**

From twenty to forty sentences summarizing what Brian is doing on these pages using the vocabulary of the thinking process. **17 points. Just a bit more detail is needed, and please add more thinking process words.**
 * 1) **Summary of Paragraphs 97-132 in terms of the Thinking Process**
 * Maximum Number of Points: 20 POINTS EARNED:**

Restatement of the message or lesson of the novel; explanation of why this is an important message or lesson to know; description of how the writer of the essay (the student) can specifically use this lesson in his/her life in the future.
 * 1) **Conclusion**
 * Maximum Number of Points: 15**
 * 8 out 15. You need to revise and rewrite this: 2 to 3 sentences on the lesson; 2 to 3 sentences on why this lesson is important; 2 to 3 sentences on how you predict or imagine you can or will use this lesson in your life .**