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Generic AP Language And Composition Rubric

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I left IA, WJ, and CM's benchmark essay open for you to grade.

Just email me their grades if you don't mind...
Here is the rubric to use. And remember, scores of a 7-9 should be used SPARINGLY because the essays that score this high end up getting college credit.

They can always boost their scores in the MC section of the test or the AP Binder too. http://teachers.sduhsd.net/mgaughen/docs/Generic%20AP%20Rubric.pdf Generic AP Language and Composition Rubric teachers.sduhsd.net Generic AP Language and Composition Rubric The score should reflect a judgment of the essay’s quality as a whole. Remember that students had only 40 minutes to read

For comparison, I gave this essay a 7:

Media dominance is a hinderance to the individual's perceptions and ideas. We're devoided of opinions when what the news says is what absorbs all of our opinions and dumb down our thoughts. The media isn't directly a villain that we should light our torches and sharpen our pitchforks for, but their actions just seem like simplifying our thoughts. It just doesn't help. …show more content…

For example, the recent "creepy clown attacks" have caused an outburst in the U.S., despite it being such a trivial occurrence. They cause fear amongst viewers, scaring them over clown sightings and clown horror stories circling the news. Further media coverage just made the whole thing rather ridiculously brought out of proportion, refusing to let this oh-so-wonderful news story from dying. The media, rather than causing anything meaningful to happen, just stirring the pot further, unintentionally causing more random hooligans to take to the streets donning their most horrific clown costume money can

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