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Essay Assignment

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JROTC ESSAY ASSIGNMENT
 
 
 
ASSIGNED: 15 November 2007
 
 
 
DUE: 15 December 2007
 
 
 
TASK: Write a 250-350 word essay on the topic: “JROTC Helps Me Deal with Peer Pressure”
 
 
 
CRITERIA: 
  • Essay must be at least five paragraphs
  • Use the attached formats for the essay and cover sheets
  • Length: must be at least 250 words but not more than 350 words.
  •  Essay will be evaluated using Montbello’s standardized writing rubric
  • Typing is preferred; hand writing is acceptable only if double-spaced and legible
  • All JROTC (LET Levels) students will write an essay.
  • Recommend that you negotiate with your English teacher for a grade or extra credit for this essay.
 
 
 
GRADE: This is 20 percent of your fall grade
 
 
 
 **See formatting information below**
 
 
 
Enclosure 1 (Essay Cover Sheet)
 
Courier New Font, Size 12, double spaced, centered on the page
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cadet Name
Cadet Rank
Cadet Student Number
Cadet Home Address
School Name
School POC (your instructor’s name)
 
 
 
 
 
Enclosure 2 (Essay Body Template Sheet)
Courier New Font, Size 12, double spaced, 1” margins
 
                                                                                      Cadet John Doe
                                                                                                       Let 1
                                                                                         Montbello HS
 
****[3 lines between title and name]****
 
“JROTC Helps Me Deal with Peer Pressure”
 
 
Grading Rubric
 
RUBRIC FOR EVALUATING ESSAYS
Style/Fluency
4 points
  • Is engaging
  • Uses accurate, precise vocabulary that is appropriate for audience and purpose
  • Uses active and precise verbs
  • May use figurative language, imagery, and or striking language
  • Is fluent, easy to read
  • Uses an effective variety of sentence beginnings, structures, and length
  • Is readable, neat, nearly error-free
3 points
  • Is occasionally engaging
  • Uses accurate but general word choice that is appropriate for the audience and purpose
  • Uses a mix of precise and general verbs
  • Uses familiar vocabulary and phrases with some striking language
  • Is generally fluent with occasional choppiness
  • Uses some variety of sentence beginnings, structures, and length
  • Is mostly readable and neat
2 points
  • Is somewhat bland
  • Uses general word choice that may include occasional errors in word usage
  • Uses a few active verbs but most are imprecise or colorless (i.e.…is, did, go)
  • Uses familiar vocabulary and phrases
  • Uses a variety of sentence beginnings, structure, or length but has many rambling or choppy sentences
1 point
  • Is bland
  • Uses inaccurate or repetitive work choice that is occasionally inappropriate for audience and purpose
  • Uses passive, colorless, or imprecise verbs
  • Uses vague language or frequent clichés
  • Is incomplete or rambling
  • Uses simple, repetitive sentence beginning, structures, and lengths OR many sentences combined needlessly
  • Has some unreadable portions
0 points
  • The writing is illegible
Content/Organization
4 points
  • Meets all the requirements of the prompt
  • Stays fully focused on topic
  • Includes relevant information
  • Provides main ideas and specific, elaborated details that move beyond the obvious
  • Includes an inviting introduction, logical arrangements of ideas, and satisfying conclusion
  • Maintains a clear order with transitions between ideas
3 points
  • Meets most of the prompt’s requirements
  • Stays mostly focused
  • Includes mostly relevant information
  • Provides main ideas but details are general or brief or obvious
  • Includes a recognizable introduction, arrangement of ideas and conclusion; ideas may wander a bit; may be predictable
  • Provides some connections between ideas with few transitions
2 points
  • Meets some of the prompt’s requirements
  • Addresses a broad topic or focuses on a trivial point
  • Provides sketchy information that may be list-like
  • Begins or ends abruptly; arrangement of ideas is stilted or occasionally random
  • Rarely uses transitions
1 point
  • Meets few of the prompt’s requirements
  • Severely digresses from topic
  • Includes much irrelevant information
  • Does not provide main ideas or does not support them; details may be repetitious
  • Begins or ends abruptly with no introductions or conclusion; there is little or no attempt to establish order
  • Does not connect ideas
0 points
  • The writing is off topic
Language Usage
2 Points Language skills successfully support meaning; few, if any, errors in the following:
·        Subject/verb and pronoun/antecedent agreement
·        Modifiers
·        Punctuation; end punctuation, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, semicolons
·        Abbreviation and paragraphing
1 point Language skills support meaning; several errors in some or all of the following:
·        Subject/verb and pronoun/antecedent agreement
·        Modifiers
·        Punctuation; end punctuation, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, semicolons
·        Abbreviation and paragraphing
·        Spelling and paragraphing
0 points Language skills impede meaning; response is error-ridden
 

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