SCALE ELA Textual Analysis Rubric

During this classroom performance assessment, students will have an opportunity to think carefully about the idea of a “hero’s journey.” They will be asked to think and write about the possibility and the nature of heroism in the contemporary world as they focus on a selection of short fiction...

This common analytic rubric can be used with English language arts performance tasks to assess textual analysis skills.

This common analytic rubric can be used with English language arts performance tasks to assess textual analysis skills.

In this task students are asked to think critically about the text Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and to write a textual analysis essay.

The prompts for the essay are based on the essential questions: 1) What is my responsibility to other people? and 2) What does it mean to be...

In this task, students will read a fiction novel of their choice containing a modern social issue. Students will then conduct research on the social issue and write a research paper that analyzes and compares/contrasts the depiction of a social issue in the novel in relation to the reality of...

In this task students will read, analyze, and write about a range of documentary texts from American art and literature that portray the American dream and how people pursue, secure, or are disappointed in their quest for it. Students will then research the life of a person they know ...

In this task, students will read, analyze, and write about a selection from Susan Bordo’s "Unbearable Weight" in which she makes the argument that texts teach us how to see and think about ourselves and others.

Students will analyze a popular text to explore the idea that texts shape our...