- Grade 8 Baseline Annotation – Expository Writing - #811SE
Prompt: Life can be full of surprises that have an effect on our lives.
- Reasons: The reasons are missing; there are no clear reasons/main points about why the
trip was a surprise, or how it affected the student’s life; it is simply a story
about a trip and how they traveled.
- Transitions: Transitions are omitted between paragraphs, and within the
paragraphs there were repetitive transitions “then, but, plus” used.
- Level 1: Below Basic
Sentences a cadence that is awkward for audience/purpose/form with
minimal variety of beginnings, structures and lengths.
- *Bold text in descriptions indicates language from the rubric.
Baseline Annotation 811SE.pdf 
