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Book Review of William H. Armstrong’s Sounder
DUE: MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2007

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Book details	Missing more than two requirements necessary to receive a 4	Missing two requirements necessary to receive a 4	Missing one requirement necessary to receive a 4	Includes title, author, and descriptions of  characters/settings	
Main idea	Ideas change or drift	Ideas are focused	Ideas are developed	Ideas are well developed	
Sequence	Ideas are disorganized	Ideas are loosely connected	Logical sequence of ideas	Logical sequence of ideas flow easily	
Opening and Closing	May lack an opening and closing	May lack an opening and closing	Generally has an opening and closing	Has an opening and closing	
Audience	Does not keep the audience in mind	Keeps the audience in mind	Keeps the audience in mind	Keeps the audience in mind very well	
Evidence	Uses no quotes from the text to support review	Uses one specific quote from the text to support review	Uses one specific quote from the text (including page numbers) to support review	Uses several specific quotes from the text (including page numbers) to support review	
Recommendation	There is no recommendation	Recommendation is not clear	Recommendation is clear	Recommendation is very clear and interesting	
Capitalization, spelling, punctuation	Many serious errors	Some errors	Few errors	Very few, if any, errors	
Neatness	Not very neat	Neat	Very neat	Extremely neat