Songs of Social Comment Rubric - The Courier-Mail



Songs of Social Comment Rubric Name: ________________

|Criteria |A |B |C |D |E |

|Introduction |Poses appropriate question in |Poses question in title. |Poses question in title. The |Poor choice of question in title. |No question in title. |

|Song name |title. |The introduction clearly states the|introduction states the main |The introduction is weak with the |Minimal or no introduction to song |

|Composer |Introduction is inviting, states |main issue/message and some |issue/message. |main issues/messages poorly |and issue. |

|Date composed |main issue/message and |historical context. | |described. | |

|States the main issue |historical/cultural context. | | | | |

|Knowledge Understanding Analysis |Accurately describes several |Accurately describes |Describes some dominant elements |Has difficulty describing the |Cannot extract the dominant |

|themes |dominant themes used by the |a couple of dominant elements used |used by the composer |dominant theme used by the composer|theme/themes. |

|supports opinions |composer and accurately relates how|by the composer and accurately |and attempts to relate |and has great difficulty describing| |

|interpretation of lyrics |the lyrics are used in the song to |relates how the lyrics are used in |how the lyrics are used in the song|how these relate to the meaning or | |

| |reinforce theme, meaning or mood. |the song to reinforce theme, |to reinforce theme, meaning or |feeling of the song. | |

| |Supplies comprehensive details to |meaning or mood. Supplies many |mood. |Supplies very few details to | |

| |support interpretation. |details to support interpretation. |Supplies some details to support |support interpretations. | |

| | | |interpretations. | |Supplies no detail to support |

| | | | | |interpretations. |

|Conclusion |Conclusion is very strong with |Conclusion is strong with summary |Conclusion is recognisable with |Conclusion is brief but could be |Little or no conclusion. Poor or no|

|summarises message |excellent summary of explanation. |of explanation. Good understanding |attempt at summary. Understanding |improved by summarizing the |understanding of issue or lyrics. |

|identifies reason for selecting |Deep understanding evident. |of issue or lyrics is evident. |evident. Justifies choice of song. |explanation. Little understanding |No justification of song choice |

|song |Excellent justification given for |Strong justification of song | |of issue or lyrics. Poor attempt to|given. |

| |song choice |choice. | |justify song choice. | |

|Language Control |Excellent language control, use of |Good language control; sound use of|Adequate language control: |Weak language control; very limited|Very weak language control: poor |

|spelling |well chosen vocabulary accurate and|vocabulary; very few grammatical |vocabulary range is standard. Some |vocabulary base; frequent |choice of vocabulary very limited |

|punctuation |variety of grammatical structures. |errors that do not obscure from |grammatical errors that do not |grammatical errors even in simple |sentence structure. Many |

|grammar | |meaning. |obscure meaning. |structures that at times obscure |grammatical errors that hinder |

| | | | |meaning. |meaning. |

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