Title: 12 - Key Ideas and Details Project
Course: English 4A SU15 > Section: Unit: Read This Book!

This assignment will determine how well you were able to pick up on what Mary Shelley hoped to convey through her book Frankenstein.

Project Overview:

You are going to create a product (video, narrated slideshow, essay, or other original work) that demonstrates your understanding of the book.

Criteria:

Your project must contain the following:

- Demonstration of at least two themes from the book and how they developed over the course of the story
- Reasoning for how the author choices as they relate to elements of the Plot Diagram and Methods of Characterization affect a reader's understanding of the book
- Multiple references to specific passages in the book to support your analysis

There are no specific criteria with regard to length of the project; just to accomplish all of the items listed above it will likely take 3-5 hours of your time. You will be graded based on how well you are able to support your conclusions as well as proper writing mechanics, grammar and spelling. So don't forget to review your work before the final submission.

If your project is created on another site please post a link to where it can be viewed in your submission below.

In addition to your assignment submission you must also include a statement in which you give yourself a grade for this project and why you think you've earned that grade, also list some ways in which your assignment might be improved.

Grading form:

Key Ideas & Details Rubric

This rubric is aligned to the MN Academic Standards for Language Arts in the area of Reading Literature: Key Ideas & Details.

Writing Conventions

- 0-2 mistakes for spelling, grammar and writing mechanics.
- 3-4 mistakes for spelling, grammar and writing mechanics.
- 5-6 mistakes for spelling, grammar and writing mechanics.
- 7+ mistakes for spelling, grammar and writing mechanics.
Explicit/Implicit Support

- Cites 5 or more passages from the book to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
- Cites at least 4 passages from the book to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
- Cites at least 2 passages from the book to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
- Does not cite passages from the book to support analysis.
Theme

- Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
- Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text but contains some reasoning errors.
- Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text but contains some reasoning errors that can make the conclusion difficult to understand.
- Contains some reasoning errors that make the conclusion difficult to understand or inaccurate.
Author Choice

- Demonstrates the impact of the author's choices relating to Plot & Characterization with support from text and additional opinion.
- Demonstrates the impact of the author's choices relating to Plot & Characterization with support from text or additional opinion.
- Demonstrates the impact of the author's choices relating to Plot & Characterization.
- Does not demonstrate the impact of the author's choices.