Rubric for Scoring Johnny Tremain Journal Entries

Score Understanding Performance
4
 • Your journal entry reveals and explains the most important aspects of Johnny’s character as he develops in the assigned section.
• Your description of Johnny’s feelings are elaborated and show his struggle to free himself from his own selfishness and pride.
• You have included Johnny’s responses to the most important events in the assigned reading. You have become Johnny.
• Your entry is factually accurate, supported by references from the book.		 • Your writing is very well organized and persuasive.
• You correctly used 3 or more of the assigned vocabulary in order to communicate ideas more effectively.
• You consistently use proper sentence structure, and correct grammar, spelling and punctuation with few errors.
• You have referred to 3 or more relevant historical events, places, or people that influence Johnny in this section.
3
 • Your journal entry reveals important aspects of Johnny’s character development in the assigned reading, but does not consistently reveal how these developments are brought about.
• Your description of Johnny’s feelings should be elaborated more in order to better explain his struggle to free himself from his own selfishness and pride.
• You have included Johnny’s responses to most of the important events in the assigned reading. You understand Johnny well.
• Your entry is factually accurate.		 • Your writing is well organized to show Johnny’s development.
• You correctly used 2 or more of the assigned vocabulary words in order to communicate ideas more effectively.
• You consistently use proper sentence structure, and correct grammar, spelling and punctuation with few errors.
• You have referred to 2 or more relevant historical events, places, or people that influence Johnny in this section.
2
 • Your journal entry reveals minimal information about Johnny’s character development and does not explain how those changes in Johnny come about.
• It is not clear how Johnny is responding to the world around him, though it is evident you are writing from his perspective.
• You have included at least one important event from the assigned reading.
• Your entry has minor factual inaccuracies.		 • Your writing is organized but not clear as to Johnny’s development.
• You have correctly used 2 or more of the assigned vocabulary words in order to communicate ideas more effectively.
• There are several mechanics or spelling errors that do not interfere with reading the entry.
• You have referred to 1 or none of the historical events, places, or people that Johnny encounters in the assigned reading.
1
 • Your journal entry is more a summary of events than a description of Johnny’s reactions to those events.
• You do not show how Johnny’s character is developing and responding to events. It is not evident that you are writing from Johnny’s perspective
• You included at least one important event from the assigned reading.
• Your entry has significant factual inaccuracies. 		• Your writing is random with little evidence of organization.
• You have correctly used one or none of the assigned vocabulary words in order to communicate ideas more effectively.
• The quality of the entry suggests that you did not allow time for editing and revising.
• You have referred to one or none of the historical events, places, or people that Johnny encounters in the assigned reading.