Second+Assignment

__Second Assignment and Objectives__. Upon completion of the Second Assignment, the student will be able to: a) employ various prewriting strategies b) organize ideas into an essay with an introduction, logical development, and a logical conclusion c) create a thesis statement and include relevant facts, details, reasons and examples to support it.

The second assignment consists of viewing either a cartoon from [|www.editorialcartoonists.com] or a picture or pictures from the Boston //Globe//'s Big Picture. Once again, you are to use at least five of the //Word Wisdom// words and create a paragraph, one that you must post on the Discussion page of this wike. It is permissible to modify the rough draft of your original paragraph or to write an entirely new one, but in either case, the final copy must be polished, logical and coherent. taking the rough draft from the first assignment and modifying it into a pasted final copy.

__Rubric__

30 points: Paragraph is logical and cohesive, uses grade level vocabulary or above, contains 5 to 7 grammatically correct sentences, and properly uses at least five of the WW words in a grammatically and contextually correct manner.

27 points: Paragraph is logical, reasonably cohesive, and is 4-6 sentences long and/or uses only four WW words grammatically and contextually.

24 points: Paragraph is inconsistent in terms of logic or cohesion, is 3-5 sentences long, and uses only three of the WW words grammatically and contextually.

21 points: Logic and/or cohesion are lacking, length is insufficient to support a paragraph, and no more than two of the WW words are correctly used grammatically and contextually.