- Grade 8 Baseline Annotation – Expository Writing - #811PS
Prompt: Life can be full of surprises that have an effect on our lives.
- Reasons: The reasons are general and broad, maintaining connection to the thesis, but do
not reach the level of adequately supporting the thesis (Disneyland, baseball
games, missing school).
- Elaboration: The elaboration is general and connected, but does not provide any support
for the thesis or the reasons (Why any of the details were surprising or made
any difference is unclear, might be inferred).
- Message: The message is simplistic and not clearly present/requires interpretation to
make sense.
- Attempts one or more of the
conclusion strategies.
- ...
Baseline Annotation 811PS.pdf 
