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To build a foundation for college and career readiness, students need to learn to use writing as a way of offering and supporting opinions, demonstrating understanding of the subjects they are studying and conveying real and imagined experiences and events.  They learn to appreciate that a key purpose of writing is to communicate clearly to an external, sometimes unfamiliar audience, and the begin to adapt the form and content of their writing to accomplish a particular task and purpose.  They develop the capacity to build knowledge on a subject through research projects and to respond analytically to literary and informational sources.  To meet these goals, students must devote a significant amount of time and effort to writing, producing numerous pieces over short and expended time frames throughout the year. 

VIDEO: Writing to Inform and Make Arguments 
From: TheHuntInstitute |  

• Required mastery of three kinds of writing
• Analytical writing
• Rendering complex information clearly
• Student writing styles/multiple disciplines

VIDEO: Conventions of Standard English Writing and Speaking 
From: TheHuntInstitute |  

• Asserts the importance of good grammar
• Applying complex conventions to writing and speaking as grade levels increase
• Discussion of formal and informal communications

Holistic Writing Rubric

Analytical Writing Rubric

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