Student Activity 3

In this activity you will visit different web sites to read more about autism OR Alcatraz.  You will record your information on the “Outline for Writing” page and write an essay on the information you collected.  For proper expository essay form writing please visit the following websites:

• http://www.thewritesource.com/STUDENTMODELS/WS2K-Friendship.HTM

• http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/yorba/expository_writing1.htm

 

 

Research Choice 1:  You will research the history, symptoms, and treatment of autism.  You may find these links helpful:

http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer http://www.autism-resources.com/

 

 

Research Choice 2:  You will research the history of the island before it became a prison, the penitentiary years (with children on the island), and what Alcatraz is like now in 2005. 

Alcatraz island internet sites:

http://www.nps.gov/alcatraz/

http://www.alcatrazhistory.com/

                                                http://students.cup.edu/mor2399/children.htm

 

 

 

Click here to get your OUTLINE FOR WRITING worksheet.

 

 

Autism or Alcatraz Report Rubric

 

 

	Beginning 1 (D)	Developing 2  (C)	Accomplished 3  (B)	Exemplary 4  (A)	Score
Topic	Totally unrelated	Remotely related	Somewhat relevant	Directly relevant
Organization	Not organized, events make no sense	Some organization, events jump around, start and end are unclear	Organized, events are somewhat jumpy	Good organization, events are logically ordered, sharp sense of beginning and end
Quality of Information	Unable to find specific details	Details are somewhat sketchy	Some details are non-supporting to the subject	supporting details specific to subject
Grammar & Spelling	Very frequent grammar and/or spelling errors	More than two errors	Only one or two errors	All grammar and spelling are correct
Interest Level	Needs descriptive words	Vocabulary is constant, details lack "color"	Vocabulary is varied, supporting details need work	Vocabulary varied, supporting details vivid
Neatness	Illegible writing, loose pages	Legible writing, some ill-formed letters, print too small or too large, papers stapled together	Legible writing, well-formed characters, clean and neatly bound in a report cover, illustrations provided	Word processed or typed, clean and neatly bound in a report cover, illustrations provided
Timeliness	Report handed in more than one week late	Up to one week late	Up to two days late	Report handed in on time
				Total