Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”
After completing a close reading of the text, including underlining, highlighting, and making notes, reflect on the author’s tone. In 300-500 words, write an essay that responds to the following prompt. Use MLA formatting.
What does the perspective of the story tell you about the tone? How does the narrator help you to understand how the author feels about the reader and/or the subject matter (tone)? Does the tone and perspective tell you anything about the mood/atmosphere? What can you come to understand about Kincaid’s underlying message by analyzing the tone in the story?
Course Objective 2: Identify traditional techniques and rhetorical devices in writing that may include fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction
Module objective 1: Student will identify tone in ″Girl″ in the discussion and writing assignment
Module objective 3: Student will use point of view to decipher mood in the writing assignment
Course Objective 3: Use critical reading and writing to analyze literature, infer meanings, and identify messages that are explicit and implicit
Module objective 3: Student will use tone to decipher meaning in the writing assignment
Course Objective 9. Read, recognize, analyze, and write in a variety of expository/rhetorical patterns and a variety of forms
Module objective 1: Student will illustrate s/he can distinguish between mood and tone in the writing assignment comparison
Course Objective 11: Create and develop written products using appropriate technologies
Module objective 1: Student will show a consistent understanding of writing and submitting in required formats (Word, dropbox, discussion forum)
Course Objective 14: Use conventions of grammar and punctuation effectively
Module objective 1: Student will proofread to reflect a working understanding of grammar and punctuation
Rubric
Short Essay Rubric
Short Essay Rubric
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Holistic Scoring Rubric
In holistic reading, raters assign each essay to a scoring category according to its dominant characteristics. The categories below describe the characteristics typical of papers at six different levels of competence. All the desсrіptions take into account that the papers they categorize represent two hours of reading and writing, not a more extended period of publishing and revision.
6 pts
Score 6
A 6 paper commands attention because of its insightful development and mature style. It presents a cogent analysis of or response to the text, elaborating that response with well-chosen examples and persuasive reasoning. The 6 paper shows that its writer can usually choose words aptly, use sophisticated sentences effectively, and observe the conventions of written English.
5 pts
Score 5
A 5 paper is clearly competent. It presents a thoughtful analysis of or response to the text, elaborating that response with appropriate examples and sensible reasoning. A 5 paper typically has a less fluent and complex style than a 6, but does show that its writer can usually choose words accurately, vary sentences effectively, and observe the conventions of written English
4 pts
Score 4
A 4 paper is satisfactory, sometimes marginally so. It presents an adequate analysis of or response to the text, elaborating that response with sufficient examples and acceptable reasoning. Just as these examples and this reasoning, will ordinarily be less developed than those in 5 papers, so will the 4 paper′s style be less effective. Nevertheless, a 4 paper shows that its writer can usually choose words of sufficient precision, control sentences of reasonable variety, and observe the conventions of written English.
3 pts
Score 3
A 3 paper is unsatisfactory in one or more of the following ways. It may analyze or respond to the text illogically; it may lack coherent structure or elaboration with examples; it may reflect an incomplete understanding of the text or the topic. Its prose is usually characterized by at least one of the following: frequently imprecise word choice; little sentence variety; occasional major errors in grammar and usage, or frequent minor errors.
2 pts
Score 2
A 3 paper is unsatisfactory in one or more of the following ways. It may analyze or respond to the text illogically; it may lack coherent structure or elaboration with examples; it may reflect an incomplete understanding of the text or the topic. Its prose is usually characterized by at least one of the following: frequently imprecise word choice; little sentence variety; occasional major errors in grammar and usage, or frequent minor errors.
1 pts
Score 1
A 1 paper suggests severe difficulties in reading and writing conventional English. It may disregard the topic′s demands, or it may lack any appropriate pattern of structure or development. It may be inappropriately brief. It often has a pervasive pattern of errors in word choice, sentence structure, grammar, and usage.
