Thomas Alva Edison set a high standard for inventing
useful products for daily life. We switch on the
lights without even thinking of life without them.
We listen to music or talk on the phone, not realizing
it was Edison who invented the grandfather of our
cd players, and our cell phones. Review, "Thomas
Alva Edison." It is linked to the
book icon on the right.
As you read, jot down the different inventions
mentioned that we use as common items. The question
for this passage asks you to use your thinking skills
to think beyond information in the article. Get
those thinking skills ready.
How would today's world be different
without Thomas Edison's inventions?
Include two inventions from the selection in 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 uses two text-based ideas
to explain how today's world would be different without
Edison's inventions.
A
one point response uses one text-based idea
to explain how today's world would be different without
Edison's inventions.
A
zero point answer might be, "I don't
know." Or it might make a statement not related
to the question prompt.
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:
Lightbulbs, because we wouldn't have light
at night, only the moon. Without wax paper we
wouldn't have candles.
Score this response:
2
1
0
Student 2 writes:
Today's world would be different in many
ways without Thomas Edison's inventions. In
the story it said that communication was improved
when Thomas improved the telephone and telegraph.
Also Thomas invented the lightbulb. If we didn't
have the lightbulb today, life would be difficult.
Also in the story it said he invented waxed
paper, gasmasks, and he was the first to make
a newspaper on a moving train. Life would be
difficult without these things.
