4. The response

• demonstrates a thorough ond thoughtful, comprehensive grasp of the text.
• accurately and coherently provides specific textual details and examples to support the thesis and main ideas.
• demonstrates a clear understanding of the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities of the text.
• provides a variety of sentence types and uses precise, descriptive language.
• contains few, if any errors in the conventions of the English language. (Errors are generally first-draft in nature.)

Response to informational passages:

• thoughtfully anticipates and addresses the readers' potential misunderstandings, biases, and expectations.

Response to literary passages:

• clearly demonstrates an awareness of the author's use of literary and/or stylistic devices.

3. The response

• demonstrates a comprehensive grasp of the text.
• accurately and coherently provides general textual details and examples to support the thesis and main ideas.
• demonstrates a general understanding of the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities of the text.
• provides a variety of sentence types and uses some descriptive language.
• contains some errors in the conventions of the English language. (Errors do not interfere with the readers' understanding of the essay.)

Response to informational passages:

• anticipates and addresses the readers' potential misunderstandings, biases, and expectations.

Response to literary passages:

• demonstrates an awareness of the author's use of literary and/or stylistic devices.

2. The response

• demonstrates a limited comprehensive grasp of the text.
• provides few, if any, specific textual details and examples to support the thesis and main ideas.
• demonstrates a limited, or no, understanding of the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities of the text.
• provides few, if any, types of sentences and uses basic, predictable language.
• contains several errors in the conventions of the English language. (Errors may interfere with the readers' understanding of the essay.)

Response to informational passages:

• may address the readers' potential misunderstandings, biases, and expectations, but in a limited manner.

Response to literary passages:

• may demonstrates an awareness of the author's use of literary and/or stylistic devices.

1. The response

• demonstrates little if any, comprehensive grasp of the text.
• provides no textual details and examples to support the thesis and main ideas.
• demonstrates no understanding of the ambiguities, nuances, and complexities of the text.
• provides no sentence variety and uses limited vocabulary.
• contains serious errors in the conventions of the English language. (Errors interfere with the readers' understanding of the essay)

Response to informotional passages:

• does not address the readers' potential misunderstandings, biases, and expectations.

Response to literary passages:

• does not demonstrate any awareness of the author's use of literary and/or stylistic devices.

Non-scoreable