Assessing Your Essay on the Neil Gaiman Story

We use the ELA Rubric to determine the level of your writing.  Once I have corrected and gone over your essay with you, do a self-assessment.  What level do you think you meet, according to the rubric?  How correct is your use of language, and how accurate are the mechanics of your writing (grammar, punctuation and spelling)?  How well organized is your essay?  Is the meaning of your essay clear, and do you stick to the topic?  Finally, how well-developed is your essay?  Have you gone into detail?  Are you truly analyzing the work of literature as opposed to writing a summary?  Rate yourself in each category using the scale of 1 through 6.  Then give yourself an overall numeric score, based on the rubric.