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.

Directions

1. Review the grading rubric as listed on this page.
2. Review Making Connections.
3. Print and annotate David Sedaris’s Us and Them.
4. Open a new Google Doc, title it with your First Name, Last Name, and Making Connections with Us and Them.
5. Set the Google Doc share permissions to “Anyone with the link.”
6. Copy and paste the sentence stems below into your Google Doc.
7. Practice making connections with Us and Them by completing the sentence stems in your Google Doc.
8. Submit the URL of your Google Doc to your instructor.

Grading

Points: 30

Submitting: 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