Blog Project

English 12: Fences Blog Project

The purpose of this blog is for you to use digital media to share ideas with each other based on our class content, learnings and discussions.

To receive credit, your blog must meet the following criteria:

1. Be a minimum of 250 words
2.  Be pertinent to class content, learning, discussions and cite relevant texts to support thinking
3. Be kind and insightful
4. Be free of spelling and major grammatical errors
5. Be on time
6. Include a relevant title and your name in the label

Blogs that are inappropriate, mean, or unprofessional will be deleted and cannot be made up.

In addition, you are required to comment on two posts from classmates per week.  Posts must relate directly to the content of the original blog, be respectful and insightful, free of spelling/grammar errors, and be on time.

Two week’s work will be worth 28 formative points.  Two week’s work will be worth 28 summative points. Late blogs will not be accepted.

	Response to Prompt X4	Comments on Other People’s Responses X3
4	Response fully answers the prompt. Response consistently demonstrates use of critical thinking skills and evidence of analysis, synthesis and evaluation of the class text and previous discussions. Writing of the response consistently is clear, concise and easy to understand.  Standard grammar and spelling are consistently used.	Comments consistently demonstrate integration of concepts learned in class. Comments consistently back opinions with details, reasons AND evidence from the text. Writing of the comments consistently is clear, concise and easy to understand.  Standard grammar and spelling are consistently used.
3	Response answers the prompt. Response often demonstrates use of critical thinking skills and evidence of analysis, synthesis and evaluation of the class text and previous discussions. Writing of the comments often is clear, concise and easy to understand.  Standard grammar and spelling are often used.	Comments often demonstrate integration of concepts learned in class. Comments often back opinions with details, reasons AND evidence from the text. Writing of the comments often is clear, concise and easy to understand.  Standard grammar and spelling are often used.
2	Response mostly answers the prompt. Response sometimes demonstrates use of critical thinking skills and evidence of analysis, synthesis and evaluation of the class text and previous discussions. Writing of the comments sometimes is clear, concise and easy to understand.  Standard grammar and spelling are sometimes used.	Comments sometimes demonstrate integration of concepts learned in class. Comments sometimes back opinions with details, reasons AND evidence from the text. Writing of the comments sometimes is clear, concise and easy to understand.  Standard grammar and spelling are sometimes used.
1	Response does not fully answer the prompt. Response rarely demonstrates use of critical thinking skills and evidence of analysis, synthesis and evaluation of the class text or discussions. Writing of the comments rarely is clear, concise and easy to understand.  Standard grammar and spelling are rarely used.	Comments rarely demonstrate integration of concepts learned in class. Comments rarely back opinions with details, reasons AND evidence from the text. OR only 1 comment made. Writing of the comments rarely is clear, concise and easy to understand.  Standard grammar and spelling are rarely used.
0	No response made.	No comments made.

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