Title: 11.1 - Essay Topics
Course: English 4A SU15 > Section: Unit: Read This Book!

Now, choose one of these questions about which you will write a persuasive essay. Support your conclusions by backing them up with text from the story and your own thoughts and opinions.

Option 1: Who is the villain in this story? Defend your response with specific elements from the text and why you think it supports your conclusion.

Option 2: Should Victor have finished his second creature? In this one you'll need to explain your conclusion in detail but you should still be able to find some elements from the text to support your conclusion.

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.