Monday

Students should be working on writing an essay focing on "Who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet".  Students should use evidence from the text to back up there position.

These essays will be due at the end of the week:

Assignment: Students are required to write a 1-2 page essay evaluating a character’s motivations and assignment blame to who is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.  The essay needs to have a thesis statement, a conclusion, and use evidence from the text to support it’s reasoning. 

Standards:

RL1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as implicit inferences drawn from the text.

RL3: Analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

WI: Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.

W1a: Introduce precise claims, distinguish claims from alternate or opposing claims, and create an organization that establishes clear relationships among claims, counterclaims, reasons and evidence.

W1b: Develop claims and counterclaims fairly, supplying evidence for each while pointing out the strengths and limitations of both in a manner that anticipates the audience’s knowledge level and concerns.

W1c: Use words, phrases, and clauses to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships between claims and reasons, between reasons and evidence, and between claims and counterclaims.

W1d: Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.

W1e: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument present. 

W4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, style and features are appropriate to task, genre, purpose, and audience

W9: Draw evidence from literary or information texts to analysis, reflection, and research

	4	3	2	1
Thesis Statement/Opening Paragraph	Thesis statement evaluated a character and his/her motivation to come up with two or more interpretations for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.  Contains a hook.	Thesis statement evaluates a character and his/her motivations to come up with an interpretation on who is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet.  Contains a hook.	Thesis statement is unclear or fails to evaluate a character’s motivates or to come up with reasons for the deaths of Romeo or Juliet.	No thesis statement
Body Paragraphs/Evidence	Essay use three or more specific examples from the text to back up and prove thesis statement.  Examples are aptly analyzed	Essay uses at least two specific examples from the text to back up and prove thesis statement.  Examples are analyzed.	Examples are not specific or they are generalizations or don’t back up thesis statement.  They may or may not be analyzed.	No evidence used.
Conventions	No mistakes	1-3 small mistakes that don’t infer with reading	4 or more mistakes	Multiple mistakes that interfere with the reading or comprehension of the text
Length	3 or more pages	1-2 pages	Less than a page	A paragraph