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Authentic Assessment #1 - Math Poem

This document provides a writing prompt and rubric for students to write an acrostic poem using the topic "Numbers in Nature." It instructs students to use the letters in the topic phrase to start each line of the 15 line poem. Two example acrostic poems for the word "Math" are provided. Students are asked to identify words related to numbers in nature and construct their poem using those words. A 4 point rubric is included to evaluate the poems based on ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.

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Authentic Assessment #1 - Math Poem

This document provides a writing prompt and rubric for students to write an acrostic poem using the topic "Numbers in Nature." It instructs students to use the letters in the topic phrase to start each line of the 15 line poem. Two example acrostic poems for the word "Math" are provided. Students are asked to identify words related to numbers in nature and construct their poem using those words. A 4 point rubric is included to evaluate the poems based on ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.

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Year and section:_________________ Date:______________

AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT # 1

Write with Numbers in Nature

Create an acrostic poem using Numbers in Nature. In an acrostic poem, the letters in the
word form the first letter of each line of the poem. A line may be just one word or a phrase.
Numbers in Nature has fifteen letters, so the poem will have fifteen lines. Two examples for the word
“Math” is given.
Mind boggling Measure
Algebra and Angle using
Trigonometry Tangent and
Heightened my curiosity Hypotenuse

Identify words that you had encountered in understanding numbers in nature and list the
words or phrases that relates to it. From the list, construct your poem.

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Math Poem Rubric
4 3 2 1
Ideas The poem is The poem may The poem is not The poem is
focused. Sensory need to be more focused. Too few unfocused or
details clearly carefully focused. sensory details unclear. Details
develop, describe, Some sensory reveal the are random or
and reveal the details reveal the subject. The missing. The
subject. Carefully subject. The ideas fail to ideas do not
chosen ideas help poet’s ideas consistently help support the
the reader to sometimes help the reader reader’s
completely the reader experience what experience of the
experience what is experience what is being topic.
being described. is being described.
described.
Organization The description is The description is The description is The writing is not
organized logically organized not well organized at all.
and creatively. logically, but organized. Some Most ideas are
ideas need to be of the ideas are hard to follow.
better related. hard to follow.
Voice The poet’s voice The poet’s voice The poet’s voice The poet’s voice
connects with the connects with the connects with the is very weak or
reader from reader in some reader poorly. absent.
beginning to end. places.
Word Choice Precise, descriptive Some words are Lack of precise Words are basic
words bring the precise and and descriptive and very limited.
subject to life. descriptive, but words weakens Figurative
Figurative others are not. the poem. language and/or
language and Figurative Figurative comparisons are
comparisons create language and/or language and/or not used.
a clear picture. comparisons comparisons do
sometimes create not create a clear
a clear picture. picture.
Sentence A variety of Some sentences Many sentences Sentences and/or
sentences and/or and/or lines are and/or lines are lines are
Fluency lines adds interest varied and not varied or incomplete or
and energy to the interesting. The interesting. Most incorrect. The
description. The poem flows of the poem does poem does not
poem flows very smoothly some of not flow flow or show
smoothly. Reading the time. It can smoothly. It is feeling.
this aloud with be read aloud difficult to read
feeling is effortless. with some aloud with
feeling. feeling.
Conventions The poem has been The poem Many errors are The poem has not
carefully edited. contains some repeated. Line- been edited.
Grammar, usage, minor errors that by-line editing in Serious errors
and mechanics are may distract the specific places is affect or alter the
correct. reader, but needed. Errors meaning.
meaning remains interfere with
clear. meaning in
places.
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