Final Synthesis Essay Assessment: The Danger of Silence (W.2)
- Due Oct 12, 2022 by 11:59pm
- Points 17
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- Attempts 0
- Allowed Attempts 3
- Available Oct 10, 2022 at 12am - Oct 24, 2022 at 11:59pm
Submit your FINAL ESSAY here. Be sure that you've completed all of the steps first: outlining, drafting, self/peer evaluating, revising, and editing. Remember that this essay is worth more than anything else this term!
Use your outline from last week to help you write the following essay:
Prompt: Write an informative essay explaining the danger of silence, including its role in the Holocaust. Next, explain how people your age can learn from the danger of silence as seen throughout history and use their voice to better their school and community. Your explanation must be based on ideas, concepts, and information from multiple texts that we read together in class. Use this this checklist Links to an external site. to keep you on track.
Reminder: There are two parts to this prompt! Be sure to answer both parts.
**Use the handouts on transition words Links to an external site. and elaboration tips Links to an external site. to help you.
**Be sure that you include all of the elements on this checklist. Links to an external site.
**Here is a sample Informative essay (Links to an external site.) about traveling to Mars to see what an "A" paper looks like.
"The Danger of Silence" Ted Talk
The Sound of Silence/Night Comparison
Elie Wiesel's "The Perils of Indifference" Speech
"First They Came," by Martin Neimöller (Links to an external site.)
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Focus
The response is fully sustained and consistently and purposefully focused. Clearly introduces the topic; addresses all aspects of the prompt appropriately; main idea is focused and communicated within the audience, purpose, and task.
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Organization
The response has a clear and effective organizational structure. Organizes complex ideas, concepts, and information; consistently and effectively uses appropriate and varied transitions in and among paragraphs to link the major sections of the text and create cohesion; provides an effective concluding statement or section that supports the topic.
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Evidence
The response provides thorough and convincing evidence for the main idea.
Thoroughly develops the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the topic.
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Elaboration
The response achieves substantial depth by using precise language and elaborative techniques:
Effective use of precise language and vocabulary to manage the topic.
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Conventions
The response demonstrates an adequate command of conventions:
Some errors in usage and sentence formation may be present, but no systematic pattern of errors; adequate use of punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
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