Assignment: Making Connections with Us and Them
After reviewing the Making Connections page, actively read David Sedaris’s Us and Them, practice annotating the text, and practice making connections with the text.
Submitting: a website URL
Directions
- Review the grading rubric as listed on this page.
- Review Making Connections.
- Print and annotate David Sedaris’s Us and Them.
- Open a new Google Doc, title it with your First Name, Last Name, and Making Connections with Us and Them.
- Set the Google Doc share permissions to “Anyone with the link.”
- Copy and paste the sentence stems below into your Google Doc.
- Practice making connections with Us and Them by completing the sentence stems in your Google Doc.
- Submit the URL of your Google Doc to your instructor.
Grading
Points: 30Submitting: a website URL
Argument Final KEEP | |||||||
Criteria | Ratings | Points | |||||
Text-to-Self connections | Proficient 10 pts |
Developing 6 pts |
No connections 0 pts |
10 pts | |||
Text-to-Text connections | Proficient 10 pts |
Developing 6 pts |
No connections 0 pts |
10 pts | |||
Text-to-World connections | Proficient 10 pts |
Developing 6 pts |
No connections 0 pts |
10 pts | |||
Analyze a text for text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections | Exceeds expectations 0 pts |
Meets expectations 0 pts |
Does not meet expectations 0 pts |
0 pts | |||
TOTAL POINTS | 30 pts |