Persuasive Writing Rubric

Follow this link to get to the official TEA persuasive writing rubric:

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/staar/writing/

Scroll down to English II, then find the link for Persuasive Writing Rubric.
It's a PDF.

Score point 4 = 100 in the grade book - "Accomplished Writing Performance"
Score point 3 = 90 in the grade book - "Satisfactory Writing Performance"
Score point 2 = 75 in the grade book - "Basic Writing Performance"
Score point 1 = 70 in the grade book - "Very Limited Writing Performance"
Score point 0 = 60 in the grade book
No attempt = 50

Persuasive Essay Reassessments:
On-level will reassess on Friday, November 1.
K/H will get scored papers back by November 1.
Reassessment dates will be after school on Monday, November 4 or before school (starting at 6:15) on Tuesday, November 5. These are the only dates I am available.

• I know that we typically do not allow reassessments the last week of a grading period. Obviously, I'm creating an exception for this.
• You may reassess up to a 3 - yes, that means a 90 will go in the grade book. 
• To reassess, you first must show evidence of additional learning/mastery. This means you need to come to the reassessment time with the original scored essay and a new, rewritten, improved version of it. There's a big difference between a 1 and a 2, and a big difference between a 2 and a 3. Adding one or two sentences or changing a few words with the help of a thesaurus isn't enough, and it's not evidence of additional mastery. The reassessment will be a new persuasive prompt and you will have 1 hour to complete it.