English III Advanced Placement Summer Reading—B. F. Terry High ...

Genre:Topic:RECALL:Questions/Main Ideas:RECORDNotes:REDUCE: Insight and Analysis

Cornell Notes Grading Rubric – English III APThe rubric below will be used to grade your Cornell Notes. Format,Mechanics and Documentation count for 20% of your final grade, theRecall and Record Section makes up 40%, and the Reduce sectioncounts as the other 40%.This grade will count as a major grade the first six weeks and is ondue 2 nd day of class.Format,Mechanics, andDocumentationGRADE:Recall and RecordGRADE:ReduceGRADE:50 60 – 69 70-79 80-89 90-100does not provideproper MLAdocumentation forquotes (Fitzgerald17)*; notformattedproperly; severepunctuationand/or grammarerrorsless than 5bulleted items onany ONE theme;OR does notcover five themesOffers no insightor analysis of thechapter; makesno connection tothe overall themeMeets allrequirements;includes properMLAdocumentation forall quotations;multiple grammaror punctuationerrorsHas only 5-6bulleted items,but addressesfive themesAttempts to offerinsight andanalysis of thechapter; attemptsto connect tooverall themesMeets allrequirements;includes properMLAdocumentation forall quotations;some grammar orpunctuation errorsHas only 7-9bulleted items,but addressesfive themesProvidesplausible insightand analysis;connects tooverall themesMeets allrequirements;includes properMLAdocumentation forall quotations; fewgrammar orpunctuation errorsExceeds allrequirements;includes properMLAdocumentation forall quotations; nogrammar orpunctuation errorsMeets the Exceeds theminimum minimumrequirements of requirements of10 bulleted items, 10 bulleted items.and covers all five May find evidencethemes in another chapterProvides solidinsight andanalysis;connects tooverall themesProvidesexceptionalinsight and clearanalysis; clearlyconnects tooverall themesFormat Grade Recall Grade Recall Grade Reduce Grade Reduce Grade FINAL AVERAGE*Proper MLA documentation for quotes includes the author’s last name and thepage number on which the quotation appears placed in parenthesis at the end ofthe quotation, i.e. (Frank 17).*Example quotation and parenthetical citation:“I found in my new home hardship, hunger, whipping, and nakedness” (Douglass53).