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Informational Text Analysis Assignment

For the next assignment you will analyze the following Informational passage, and create a written response.  Remember that each standard will need its own specific response in the form of a paragraph. 

First, read the following selection about whether or not students should be paid for their grades, then address the following three questions. 

The article may be accessed at http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/maybe-paying-for-good-grades-is-not-so-bad/2014/03/30/6867f4e8-b5e9-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html

Question 1: What is the author’s main idea about the paying student for their grades?  Be sure to show how the author develops this over the course of the ENTIRE text, and provide at least two examples of textual support.

ELACC9-10RI2: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Proficient (100)	Meets (80)	Emerging (60)	Not Evident (40)	Not Attempted (0)
Concise, complex and accurate statement of the author’s purpose.	A correct statement of the author’s purpose.  The answer shows some awareness of complexity.	A partially developed statement of the author’s purpose, or an overly simplistic statement of the author’s purpose.	An inaccurate statement of the author’s purpose, or the answer only mirrors the prompt.	No statement of purpose provided.
Focused textual evidence from multiple parts of the article.  The textual support is integrated with the author’s own ideas.	Textual evidence from at least two parts of the article.  Some textual evidence is integrated with the author’s own ideas.	Minimal textual evidence or long blocks of textual evidence without integration to the author’s own ideas.	Textual evidence is copied without any connection to the author’s ideas.	No textual evidence provided.
Excellent attention to conventions, style, and punctuation.	Minimal errors in convention, style and punctuation.	Some errors in conventions, style and/ punctuation, but these errors do not obscure meaning.	Errors in conventions, style and/or punctuation obscure the meaning.	Unreadable due to errors.

Question 2: How does the author use effective vocabulary to convey his argument about whether or not students should be paid for grades?  Use at least TWO specific examples from the text.

ELACC9-10RI4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.
Proficient (100)	Meets (80)	Emerging (60)	Not Evident (40)	Not Attempted (0)
Concise, complex and accurate statement of how specific word choices help to convey overall meaning.	A correct statement of how specific word choices help to convey overall meaning.  The answer shows some awareness of complexity.	A partially developed statement of how specific word choices help to convey overall meaning.	An inaccurate statement of how specific word choices help to convey meaning or the answer only mirrors the prompt.	No statement about word choice provided.
Focused textual evidence from multiple parts of the article.  The textual support is integrated with the author’s own ideas.	Textual evidence from at least two parts of the article.  Some textual evidence is integrated with the author’s own ideas.	Minimal textual evidence or long blocks of textual evidence without integration to the author’s own ideas.	Textual evidence is copied without any connection to the author’s ideas.	No textual evidence provided.
Excellent attention to conventions, style, and punctuation.	Minimal errors in convention, style and punctuation.	Some errors in conventions, style and/ punctuation, but these errors do not obscure meaning.	Errors in conventions, style and/or punctuation obscure the meaning.	Unreadable due to errors.

Question 3

What is the author’s point of view on the issue of whether or not students should be paid for their grades?  Be sure to cite at least TWO specific examples of textual evidence to support your response.

ELACC9-10RI6: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
Proficient (100)	Meets (80)	Emerging (60)	Not Evident (40)	Not Attempted (0)
Concise, complex and accurate statement of how point of view helps to convey overall meaning.	A correct statement of how point of view helps to convey overall meaning.  The answer shows some awareness of complexity.	A partially developed statement of how point of view helps to convey overall meaning.	An inaccurate statement of how point of view helps to convey meaning or the answer only mirrors the prompt.	No statement about point of view provided.
Focused textual evidence from multiple parts of the article.  The textual support is integrated with the author’s own ideas.	Textual evidence from at least two parts of the article.  Some textual evidence is integrated with the author’s own ideas.	Minimal textual evidence or long blocks of textual evidence without integration to the author’s own ideas.	Textual evidence is copied without any connection to the author’s ideas.	No textual evidence provided.
Excellent attention to conventions, style, and punctuation.	Minimal errors in convention, style and punctuation.	Some errors in conventions, style and/ punctuation, but these errors do not obscure meaning.	Errors in conventions, style and/or punctuation obscure the meaning.	Unreadable due to errors.