Sample CER Response
I determine of a grub steak is that hardware merchants and clothiers to get together the necessary outfit to start by the next boat for the promised land
"every man who could raise the nesscary funds for a years grub steak was rushing to the grocers."
The word grub steak matches with the defintion in my claim because it says in my claim that ''grub steak is that hardware merchants and clothiers.''
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Directions:
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Claim Rubric
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Evidence Rubric
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Reasoning Rubric
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CER Response Rubric
Claim (3pts)
The Claim answers the question.(1pt)
The Claim uses important words from the question (including the subject). (1pt)
The Claim is a complete sentence (with a capital letter at the beginning and a period at the end). (1pt)
Evidence (3pts)
There is a Lead-in that introduces the quote (usually by saying, The author writes,) (1pt)
The Evidence is a word-for-word quote from the text (with "quotation marks" around it) (1pt)
There is an Author's Citation which contains the last name of the author (in (Parenthesis)) (1pt)
Reasoning (3pts)
Reasoning explains how or why the evidence supports the claim.
Four students sit around a table in a library. The students’ books, digital devices, and notebooks are out on the table. While they talk, other students work quietly in the background.
00:00 Ashley: Yeah, I’m not so sure that being stuck in a roaring
00:02 furnace is a fairy tale ending, but it does have a childish
00:06 rhyming scheme.
00:06 Mikaela: You are so hating on this poem, Ashley!
00:11 I mean, the rhyme scheme makes it more accessible,
00:14 seven for children, right?
00:15 Spenser: I agree.
00:16 I mean, it’s a little too gruesome for a bedtime story.
00:18 Troy: This isn’t a bedtime story or a fairy tale;
00:22 it’s more of a folktale.
00:23 You know, the brother’s Grimm fairy tales were always a bit
00:26 dark and…grim.
00:28 Ashley: Yeah, because Rapunzel is so dark and cold.
00:32 Troy: More like Cinderella.
00:34 Have you ever seen the Grimm version?
00:36 Ashley: No.
00:37 Troy: Alright.
00:38 The stepsisters, well, they cut off their toes
00:40 to fit their fat feet into the little glass slippers,
00:42 and, well, they get ratted out by a couple of birds
00:45 who then double back to peck out their eyes
00:47 and leave them living as blind beggars
00:50 for the rest of their life.
00:51 Cinderella, on the other hand, a happily ever after princess.
00:54 Spenser: That’s a lot worse than dragging a corpse around.
00:56 Ashley: So, maybe I’m over-doing it on the whole nursery rhyme
01:00 thing.
In this clip, Mikaela and Troy try to convince Ashley that the poem’s rhyme scheme isn’t childish. Does Ashley change her opinion after hearing their arguments?
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Four students sit around a table in a library. The students’ books, digital devices, and notebooks are out on the table. While they talk, other students work quietly in the background.
00:00 Troy: Did you guys ever go camping?
00:01 Mikaela: What?
00:02 Off topic!
00:03 Troy: Growing up as a kid, I used to go all the time
00:06 and, you know, on those trips, if you break your ankle out
00:09 in the middle of nowhere, well, you’re in a heap of trouble.
00:11 Spenser: Yeah, seriously, what does this
00:13 have to do with the poem?
00:13 Mikaela: Right?
00:14 Troy: Living in those harsh mining times,
00:16 it was no easy task.
00:17 They were surrounded by violence and death everywhere.
00:20 This poem is a reminder of those harsh times.
00:23 Look, even if it’s a stereotype, it’s a stereotype for a reason.
Mikaela and Spenser think Troy is off topic when he talks about camping. How are his comments actually relevant to the discussion of the poem?
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Write reasoning the explains why your evidence supports your claim
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Four students sit around a table in a library. The students’ books, digital devices, and notebooks are out on the table. While they talk, other students work quietly in the background.
00:00 Troy: Anyway, look, I think that the humor in this poem
00:02 sis, well, sophisticated.
00:04 Mikaela: Ah, how so?
00:05 Troy: Well, in the beginning it’s got you thinking that,
00:08 well, it’s a ghoulish, scary ghost story and by the end,
00:11 it’s got you laughing.
00:12 Ashley: Ok, even I have to admit that the second time I read
00:15 through the poem, in the first stanza,
00:17 when Sam McGee says he’d rather live in hell…right…because it’s
00:21 warmer there…?
00:22 Right?
00:22 That’s funny, right?
00:24 Mikaela: Yeah. “He’d often say in his homely way that ‘he’d
00:28 sooner live in hell.’” So, it’s like the first time I read
00:31 that, I thought aww, poor guy, but then I realized that it’s
00:35 foreshadowing!
00:36 Spenser: Ok, well, what about the line “Then I made a hike,
00:40 for I didn’t like to hear him sizzle so.” That’s gross,
00:45 but it’s really funny!
00:46 Troy: Service takes a really spooky premise here.
00:50 He takes a man’s dying wish to have his remains cremated
00:53 and turns it into a campfire joke.
00:55 Ashley: Ok, but how?
00:57 Mikaela: I think it’s part of the contrast between tone
01:01 and language.
01:02 Like, Ashley, your note about the sing-song rhyme;
01:06 it makes things light, right?
01:07 Ashley: Yeah, for sure.
01:08 Troy: No, I think there’s more to it than just that.
01:10 Spenser: There’s something really freeing about being able
01:12 to make light of something so heavy.
01:15 Mikaela: Which is exactly what service
01:17 does at the end of the poem.
01:19 The narrator is all scared and he goes to check
01:21 on the cremation and there’s Sam McGee all happy!
01:26 I mean, “‘Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee,
01:29 it’s the first time I’ve been warm.’” It’s a joke.
01:32 Ashley: So, Service is laughing at death.
01:35 Spenser: Yeah, and pointing out that bravery and laughter have
01:39 a lot in common.
01:39 Troy: You know, I’d say that’s a pretty timeless lesson.
In this clip, Troy says that he thinks the humor in the poem is serious and sophisticated, rather than silly. Do you think his argument is convincing?
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Write evidence that supports the claim
Write reasoning the explains why your evidence supports your claim
Use the CER Response Rubrics above when crafting your responses.