Othello Summative Final Draft

Directions: You will be constructing a writing piece that argues a claim about our last text “Othello.” You will create your claim using the following claim:

“Iago is an effective villain.”


Your writing piece should:
-ELABORATE ON THE CLAIM BY PREVIEWING YOUR SUBCLAIMS/REASONING (“Iago is an effective villain BECAUSE…”)
-CITE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THE REASONS FOR YOUR CLAIM (you ideally will have MULTIPLE pieces of evidence for each piece of your claim.)
-CLEARLY EXPLAIN HOW THE EVIDENCE SUPPORTS YOUR CLAIM (REASONING)
-Have MULTIPLE paragraphs, including an introduction, several body paragraphs, and a conclusion


Below is the rubric that I will use to assess your piece:

Cite Supporting Evidence

Accuracy/Relevance of Evidence to Claim

Provide Reasoning for Claim

Connect Reasoning to Evidence

Structure of Writing Piece

Discussion of Figurative Language/Tone

THINGS TO REMEMBER:

Claims must be ARGUABLE (something where different people can take different sides) and DEFINITIVE (you sound certain of your claim–no “maybes” or “could be this or that,” etc.)
You should be able to state specifics with your claim (i.e. “Iago is an effective villain because he is ______, _______, and ________.”)
You should be able to point to different parts of the text that show your claim (you should be able to pull evidence from ANY Act/Scene in the play.)
You should be able to TALK ABOUT your evidence, which means you should be able to tell me HOW your evidence supports your claim.