- Grade 9 Baseline Annotation – Expository Writing - #911WS
Prompt: Think about classes you have taken and identify one class that is memorable.
- Reasons: The student uses significant reasons that fully support the thesis (e.g.,
amazing mentor, gaining influential friends, and learning experiences).
- Each
reason builds on and connects with the other reasons.
- Gives a
strong sense of direction.
- B.
- Middle reasons/elaboration are tightly and purposefully arranged in a
unified, cohesive and/or logical pattern to develop the
thesis/position; has a sense of completeness. In many instances it goes beyond to actually signal an emphasis on the
relationship connections (e.g., “I wante...
Baseline Annotation 911WS.pdf 
