Using your graphic organizer and annotations, respond to the following prompt:
Write a paragraph that compares the effectiveness of rhetoric in each text in advancing the author's purpose.
Your paragraph should include a response to the following: Does one text use rhetoric more convincingly or
effectively than the other?
Make certain that your response contains a clear claim, textual evidence, and commentary.
• Review the rubric to ensure your response meets the expectations.
Evaluates Use of
Rhetoric
Provides Examples
From Each Text
Compares How Texts
Mastery
Student accurately
identifies and analyzes
rhetoric in seminal US
documents and
correctly determines
how that rhetoric
advances the
document's purpose.
Student consistently
cites strong and
thorough text evidence
to support analysis of
words and phrases from
the texts.
Student accurately
compares how seminal
US documents address
Approaching
Student accurately
identifies rhetoric in
seminal US documents
but incorrectly analyzes
the rhetoric or
misinterprets how it
advances the
document's purpose.
Student cites text
evidence but supports
analysis of words and
phrases from the texts
imprecisely or
incompletely.
Student imprecisely or
incompletely compares
how seminal US
Developing
Student misidentifies or
fails to identify rhetoric
in seminal US
documents, failing to
describe how the
rhetoric advances the
document's purpose.
Student fails to cite text
evidence or fails to use
text evidence to analyze
words or phrases from
the texts.
Student misidentifies or
fails to identify related
concepts or themes