Lit & Comp I

Moran
Fishbowl Rubric

The group’s purpose: Respond to its assigned question by exploring the text, and connect
its responses to the assigned question to thoughts about the Essential Question.

Excellent Good Fair Needs

Improvement
Insight •Student •Student •Student •Student
demonstrates a demonstrates some demonstrates a demonstrates no
thorough understanding of developing understanding of
understanding the the assigned understanding of the assigned
assigned question, question, and is the assigned question, and/or
and is able to able to connect this question and does not attempt to
connect this understanding to attempts to connect this
understanding to the Essential connect this understanding to
the Essential Question. understanding to the Essential
Question. •Student usually the Essential Question.
•Student bases his bases his or her Question. •Student does not
or her comments comments on the •Student does not base his or her
and questions on text itself, and at typically base his comments and
the text itself, times reads from or her comments questions on the
consistently the text to support and questions on text itself, never
reading from the his or her ideas the text itself. quoting from it
actual text to and questions. •Student makes a directly.
support his or her •Student makes minimal •Student makes no
ideas. solid and original contribution to the contribution to the
•Student makes contributions to group’s group’s
sophisticated and the group’s understanding. understanding.
original understanding.
contributions to
the group’s
understanding.
Activity •Student speaks •Student speaks •Student speaks •Student speaks
frequently and frequently. infrequently. little, if at all.
energetically, •Student responds •Student does not •Student does not
without needing to to the ideas of fully take into respond at all to
be prompted. others. account the ideas the ideas of others.
•Student considers •Student shows a of others. •Student shows a
and thoughtfully clear respect for •Student shows total lack of
responds to the the group, its only a minimal respect for the
ideas of others. members, and its respect for the group. Its
•Student does not purpose. group, its members, and its
repeat the ideas of members, and its purpose.
others, but does purpose.
build on them and
extend them.
•Student shows a
clear respect for
the group, its
member, and its
purpose.