The American dollar bill looks ordinary to us.
We use it everyday. But it holds some interesting
secrets. Read, "Mysteries of the American
Dollar."If you have a dollar with
you, pull it out to examine as you read. The article
is linked to the book icon on the right.
The question for this passage asks you to use your
thinking skills to form your own opinion from information
in the article. Get those thinking skills ready.
Do you agree or disagree with the following
information?
The more valuable the money, the more likely people
are to hide it.
Use two details from the selection to support your
answer.
Remember in an example exercise, you are working
with scoring and evaluting answers already written. Included
in this example are a two point and a one point written
response. See if you can determine which is which. First,
let's look at the criteria used to evaluate the two responses.
A
two point response agrees
or disagrees with the statement and provides two text-based
details to support the position.
A one point response agrees
or disagrees with the statement and provides one text-based
detail to support the position.
A zero point answer might
be "I don't know." Or it might not state
an agreement or disagreement, or may not provide text-based
support of opinion.
Now you might want to take just
a few minutes and write your own TWO point response
so you have something to compare to the two other
responses.
Here are the two different responses. Evaluate and score
each response.
Student 1 writes:
I agree that the more valuable the money,
the more likely people are to hide it. I know
this beacuse in the selection it says that 91%
of the Americans hide all of their $100 bills.
It also says that the Federal Reserve Bank replaces
around $100 million every day.
Score this response:
2
1
0
Student 2 writes:
Yes, I agree with the statement. "Did
you know, for instance, that Americans hide
about 91$ of all their $100 bills? We tuck them
away in jars, mattresses, wall safes, hollow
trees, or other secret places."
