Stephanie Davis & Taylor Werle

Justice and Power: Who decides what is right?

Business Letter to a TKAM Character Rubric

Ideas

Links to
Text

Format

4
Ideas were
expressed in a
clear and
organized
fashion. It was
easy to figure out
what the letter
was about.

3
Ideas were
expressed in a
pretty clear
manner, but the
organization
could have been
better.

The letter
contains many
clear, insightful
links to text and
draws on
significant details
from the novel.
Uses business
letter format
correctly and
complies with all
the requirements
for the format.

The letter
contains some
clear links to text
and draws on
details from the
novel.

Conventions Writer makes no

errors in
grammar,
spelling,
capitalization, or
punctuation.

Uses business
letter format
correctly and
complies with
almost all of the
requirements for
each format.
Writer makes 1
2 errors in
grammar,
spelling,
capitalization,
and/or
punctuation.

2
Ideas were
somewhat
organized, but
were not very
clear. It took more
than one reading
to figure out what
the letter was
about.
The letter
contains some
links to the text
which may be
vague, and draws
on general ideas
from the novel.
Usually uses
business letter
format correctly.
Complies with
several of the
requirements for
the format.
Writer makes 3 4
errors in
grammar,
spelling,
capitalization,
and/or
punctuation.

1
The letter
seemed to be a
collection of
unrelated
sentences. It was
very difficult to
figure out what
the letter was
about.
The letter
contains very few
identifiable links
to the text and
does not seem to
draw on ideas
from the novel.
Rarely uses
business letter
format correctly.
Complies with
few of the
requirements for
the format.
Writer makes
more than 4
errors in
grammar,
spelling,
capitalization,
and/or
punctuation.

Adapted from http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1083/Rubric.pdf