In Class Writing - Written Coursework Essays

In-class writing -- post on blogs. Read the sample essays from last year (emailed to you). Paragraph 1: grade them using the IB rubric & explain your grade. Paragraph 2: explain what you gained from reading them & apply that to your own writing.

Julia's: 4 8 4
Sam's: 4 7 4

I chose to grade Sam's slightly lower than I did Julias in only one section, the exploration of the chosen approach of the text, this was because I felt that Julia had included more into the paper about her ideas for movements and why she had made certain decisions. Sam had a good amount of this in there but I felt that there was not as much as Julia had which I thought would make the grade lower. I also felt that both girls repeated themselves a few times, which is impossible not to do, but they did a good job of not over repeating what they were saying. They both did a good job of explaining their literary analysis and their use of language worked really well in their papers.

By reading these paper I think that it helped me realized more of what the IB wanted and what some people who actually took this class and I knew wrote. Both of their papers allowed me to visualize their performances. This is helpful to read because it gives good examples of in-text evidence and themes that they found and their thought process. It demonstrates a good flow of ideas. Reading these papers also gives a good idea of length for each section, while we are doing a different book and there is going to be a different amount of each section for us it is good to see what other people do so that you can see what might be too much or too little in your own work.

 Knowing Julia and Sam and seeing that this is their paper actually helped a lot because I know how hard they work and what they turned out from their scenes. It gives a good border for you to base your work off of and also be able to talk to people that you know who wrote this and took this class. Also having worked in the musical with both Sam and Julia I feel that I can get a better picture of what their scene might have looked like, this is helpful because then I can sort of base the paper on what I am thinking they did and how they explained it. This lets me know that I should do more explaining and how to make my explanations more visual and flow a little bit better