Go back to your submitted Midterm Essay. Review the rubric that is used to score the essay. Take note of each element of the rubric. Read the descriptions of each different score for each element of the rubric. Then re-read your essay and score it. Take some notes on why your gave yourself a particular score along with examples from your essay that support that score.
Writing Prompt:
Based on your Midterm Essay and the Rubric applied to that essay, answer the following questions:
Start with a thesis statement:
What is the overall score (out of 24) that you would give yourself and briefly explain why.
Then, in the analysis:
What score would you give yourself for the Thesis and why? Does your thesis completely answer the writing prompt?
What score would you give yourself for the Essay format and why? Do you have all of the identifiable parts of an essay in your response?
What score would you give yourself for the analysis? Do you have three ideas or events identified? Are they each well-described? Did you explain how they the first one helped cause the second one which helped cause the third one? What about your Conclusion? Does it describe the significance of these events or ideas and how they contributed to the circumstances faced by the United States in 1840?
What score would you give yourself for the writing style? Why?
In conclusion:
Did you do as well as you expected to do? Why or why not?
Was your History Notebook helpful? Did it have the information you needed to answer the question?
What will you be doing over the next two weeks to prepare for the actual, in-person Final Essay?
Your response should be no less than 500 words.