Direction: On one whole sheet of paper, briefly explain your thoughts about the questions below.
1. What is the role of carbon dioxide in photosynthesis?
2. What is the importance of oxygen and sugar produced by plants during the process of
photosynthesis?

Scoring Rubric
Criteria
Ideas and
Content
Use of terms
Excellent
Good
Approaching standards Needs
improvement
(5 pts)
(4-3) pts
(2 pts)
(1-0 pt)
What you are writing about is What you are writing about is You put thought into this, There is no
clear and well-expressed, clear. You answered the
but there is no real
clear or
including specific examples to question. Some support may evidence of learning. specific
demonstrate what you
be lacking, or your sentences More specific information explanation
learned. Well done!
may be a bit awkward.
is needed or you need to in answer to
Overall, a decent job.
follow the directions the question.
more closely.
Your answer included Your answer included Only one term from No terms
all the terms from the several terms from the the lesson is used in from the
lesson that applied to lesson, demonstrating the answer. Try for lesson are
the question asked. All adequate understanding a few more, next used.
terms are fully defined of the material.
time.
and used in the proper
context.
Sentences are complete Sentences are complete Some sentences are Sentences
and they connect to and able to be
complete and easy are
one another easily understood.
to understand.
incomplete
when they are read out
Others require some
or too
loud. Your writing
work.
long. It
'flows.'
makes
reading
them
difficult.
Sentence
Fluency​