Guidelines for Critical Thinking
when talking • reading • blogging • writing • living
Exemplary
- Justify your answers with textual evidence and examples from your life/world
- Move thinking forward by making connections to history, other texts, and/or contemporary events
- Analyze works to develop sophisticated and nuanced responses
- Agree and disagree with others and authors
- Ask questions of others and authors
- Speak and write in complete sentences, correct punctuation/citation
Good Start
- Build inferences by referencing examples from the text
- Agree and disagree with others and authors
- Justify your opinions with explanations of why you agree or disagree
- Speak and write in complete sentences with consistent punctuation and citation
Basic
- Answers question but does not justify responses with text-based evidence
- Agrees or disagrees with others/authors but does not explain
- Incomplete sentences, incorrect punctuation/citation
Needs Improvement
- Does not contribute to the conversation by moving it forward
- Does not share thinking
- Does not agree or disagree with others