Julia Capps

This package contains activities to help students engage with and better understand "An Artist of the Floating World" by Kasuo Ishiguro. Included are a chart delineating sections (this book has no chapters!), a sheet of Annotation Questions to be answered and turned in at regular intervals during the reading of the novel, and an activity to create a timeline to track the plot of the novel through its many flashbacks. All of these activities focus the students on identifying and calling out exam

Grading essays objectively can be difficult - a student may write well but miss the point, or have terrible style but excellent content. Use this rubric to assign 1-4 points in each of the covered areas; add up the points when you're done, divide by the total possible points (40) and you'll have your percentage grade, confident that you have taken into consideration all the areas that need grading! Suitable for grading essays for beginner essay writers - approximately Grades 7-9 but can be use

A favorite exercise I do with my Lit. students is to have them memorize a passage from a play and present it to the class. This rubric is a quick and easy way to assess their presentation and is flexible enough to work for any kind of memorization subject. Editable in Excel so you can customize it as needed.

When the basics of essay writing have been mastered and students are consistently scoring in the 90th percentile using a simpler rubric, it's time for a harder one! Suitable for grading essays for more advanced essay writers - approximately Grades 10+ but can be used for any grade depending on the skill level of the writer. Covers areas of thesis, introduction, conclusion, MLA format, Organization, Conventions (grammar etc), Tone/Style, Comprehension, Interpretation and Support. This file

This is a basic rubric for assessing beginning journalism students with feature articles. Some of this can apply to news articles but the focus of this rubric is specifically features.

How do you grade an oral presentation? How can you pay attention and write notes about the presentation at the same time? This rubric does half the work for you - just circle the applicable items during the speech and spend a minute at the end of the presentation tallying up the points. Divide the total by the number of possible points and you have your percentage grade. Ample room is available at the bottom of the rubric for comments. I have used this in my classrooms to have students judg

Take the guesswork and blue sky out of grading paragraphs. Suitable for grading beginning writers - approximately Grades 6-8, but can be used for any grade depending on the skill level of the writer. Covers areas of task completion, tone, organization, style, conventions (grammar etc), and comprehension This file is an Excel spreadsheet so you can edit it and customize it to your needs.