Senior Book Review/ Evaluation
EVALUATE your book, using appropriate literary terms. Do not use your personal opinion without backing it up with the terms. Please avoid “I think it was really good/bad” or “I’d give it a 7 out of 10.”
The Book Review should be two pages minimum, double spaced and word processed.
Terms you are required to use:
Theme: State what you think the theme is in one sentence, then support the statement using examples from the book.
Protagonist: Identify the protagonist and discuss his personality.
Antagonist: Identify the antagonist and describe.
Other terms:
Conflict
Foreshadowing
Symbolism
Setting
Other terms in the back of your literature book
Outcome/Target: Senior Literary Evaluation
Task/Activity: Review a book from on the Senior Book Review List
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Standards Criteria |
5 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
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Theme (Double Grade)
10 |
Theme (one sentence) clearly stated and well supported |
Theme (one sentence) clearly stated and partially supported |
Theme (one sentence) stated and little support |
Theme sated and not supported, or not one sentence |
No Theme stated |
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Protagonist/Antagonist, other literary terms 5 |
Terms identified w/ specific supporting traits |
Terms identified with some supporting traits |
Terms identified; little support |
Terms not identified |
Terms not identified |
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Evaluation (Triple Grade)
15 |
Book evaluated with strong support from literary terms |
Book evaluated with a strong attempt to support with literary terms |
Book evaluated with an attempt to support with literary terms |
Book not evaluated; term tie-in is difficult to find |
Book not evaluated |
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Organization
5 |
Paper is well organized, with terms supporting theme, an intro., and a conclusion |
Paper is organized according to a logical sequence, with introduction and conclusion |
Paper has a paragraph about each term, an introduction and a conclusion |
Paper has a paragraph about each term, but no introduction and/or conclusion |
Paper shown little attempt at organization |
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Overall Quality
5 |
Conventions are used correctly, Paper is word processed |
Few convention errors, paper word processed or very neat and readable |
Some convention errors, but neat |
Several errors, difficult to read |
Shows little or no effort to present a quality paper |