Of Mice and Men Essay Essay Prompt Due: Friday, February 16th What is the role or responsibility of the individual when dealing with the less fortunate in society? Why? To what extent? Write an essay in which you fully answer all parts of the questions while anticipating alternate viewpoints and utilizing evidence from Of Mice and Men and at least two other sources. See the rubric below for more details. Essay Rubric C C S S 4 3 2 1 0 Advanced Proficient Progressing Beginning No Attempt O R G A N I Z A T I O N / P U R P O S E 4 0 % The response has a clear and effective organizational structure, creating a sense of unity and completeness. The organization is fully sustained between and within paragraphs. The response is consistently and purposefully focused: 1. claim is introduced, clearly communicated,and the focus is strongly maintained for the purpose and audience 2. consistent use of a variety of transitional strategies to clarify the relationships between and among ideas 3. effective introduction and conclusion 4. logical progression of ideas from beginning to end;strong connections between and among ideas with some syntactic variety 5. alternate and opposing argument(s)are clearly acknowledged or addressed* The response has an evident organizational structure and a sense of completeness. Though there may be minor flaws, they do not interfere with the overall coherence. The organization is adequately sustained between and within paragraphs. The response is generally focused: 1. claim is clear, and the focus is mostly maintained for the purpose and audience 2. adequate use of transitional strategies with some variety to clarify relationships between and among ideas 3. adequate introduction and conclusion 4. adequate progression of ideas from beginning to end; 5. adequate connections between and among ideas alternate and opposing argument(s) are adequately acknowledged or addressed* The response has an inconsistent organizational structure. Some flaws are evident, and some ideas may be loosely connected. The organization is somewhat sustained between and within paragraphs. The response may have a minor drift in focus: 1. claim may be somewhat unclear, or the focus may be insufficiently sustained for the purpose and/or audience 2. inconsistent use of transitional strategies and/or little variety 3. Introduction or conclusion,if present, may be weak 4. uneven progression of ideas from beginning to end; and/or formulaic;inconsistent or unclear connections among ideas 5. alternate and opposing argument(s) may be confusing or not acknowledged* The response has little or no discernible organizational structure. The response may be related to the claim but may provide little or no focus: 1. claim may be confusing or ambiguous;response may be too brief or the focus may drift from the purpose and/or audience 2. few or no transitional strategies are evident 3. introduction and/or conclusion may be missing .

1. Of Mice and Men Essay
Essay Prompt
Due: Friday, February 16th
What is the role or responsibility of the individual when dealing
with the less fortunate in society? Why? To what extent?
Write an essay in which you fully answer all parts of the
questions while anticipating alternate viewpoints and utilizing
evidence from Of Mice and Men and at least two other sources.
See the rubric below for more details.
Essay Rubric
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Advanced
Proficient
Progressing
Beginning
No Attempt
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The response has a clear and effective organizational structure,
creating a sense of unity and completeness. The organization is
fully sustained between and within paragraphs. The response is
consistently and purposefully focused:
1. claim is introduced, clearly communicated,and the focus is
strongly maintained for the purpose and audience
2. consistent use of a variety of transitional strategies to clarify
the relationships between and among ideas
3. effective introduction and conclusion
4. logical progression of ideas from beginning to end;strong
connections between and among ideas with some syntactic
variety
5. alternate and opposing argument(s)are clearly acknowledged
or addressed*
The response has an evident organizational structure and a sense
of completeness. Though there may be minor flaws, they do not
interfere with the overall coherence. The organization is
adequately sustained between and within paragraphs. The
response is generally focused:
1. claim is clear, and the focus is mostly maintained for the

3. purpose and audience
2. adequate use of transitional strategies with some variety to
clarify relationships between and among ideas
3. adequate introduction and conclusion
4. adequate progression of ideas from beginning to end;
5. adequate connections between and among ideas alternate and
opposing argument(s) are adequately acknowledged or
addressed*
The response has an inconsistent organizational structure. Some
flaws are evident, and some ideas may be loosely connected.
The organization is somewhat sustained between and within
paragraphs. The response may have a minor drift in focus:
1. claim may be somewhat unclear, or the focus may be
insufficiently sustained for the purpose and/or audience
2. inconsistent use of transitional strategies and/or little variety
3. Introduction or conclusion,if present, may be weak
4. uneven progression of ideas from beginning to end; and/or
formulaic;inconsistent or unclear connections among ideas
5. alternate and opposing argument(s) may be confusing or not
acknowledged*
The response has little or no discernible organizational
structure. The response may be related to the claim but may
provide little or no focus:
1. claim may be confusing or ambiguous;response may be too
brief or the focus may drift from the purpose and/or audience
2. few or no transitional strategies are evident
3. introduction and/or conclusion may be missing
4. frequent extraneous ideas may be evident; ideas may be
randomly ordered or have unclear progression
5. alternate and opposing argument(s) may not be
acknowledged*
Insufficient (includes copied text) In a language other than
English Off-topic Off-purpose
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The response provides thorough and convincing elaboration of
the support/evidence for the claim and argument(s) including
reasoned, in depth analysis and the effective use of source
material. The response clearly and effectively develops ideas,
using precise language:
1. comprehensive evidence (facts and details)from the source
material is integrated, relevant, and specific
2. clear citations or attribution to source material
3. effective use of a variety of elaborative techniques*
4. Vocabulary is clearly appropriate for the audience and
purpose
5. effective,appropriate style enhances content
The response provides adequate elaboration of the
support/evidence for the claim and argument(s) that includes
reasoned analysis and the use of source material. The response

5. adequately develops ideas, employing a mix of precise with
more general language:
1. adequate evidence (facts and details)from the source material
is integrated and relevant, yet may be general
2. adequate use of citations or attribution to source material
3. adequate use of some elaborative techniques*
4. Vocabulary is generally appropriate for the audience and
purpose
5. generally appropriate style is evident
The response provides uneven, cursory elaboration of the
support/evidence for the claim and argument(s) that includes
some reasoned analysis and partial or uneven use of source
material. The response develops ideas unevenly, using
simplistic language:
1. some evidence (facts and details) from the source material
may be weakly integrated, imprecise, repetitive, vague, and/or
copied
2. weak use of citations or attribution to source material
3. weak or uneven use of elaborative techniques*; Development
may consist primarily of source summary or may rely on
emotional appeal
4. Vocabulary use is uneven or somewhat ineffective for the
audience and purpose
5. Inconsistent or weak attempt to create appropriate style
The response provides minimal elaboration of the
support/evidence for the claim and argument(s) that includes
little or no use of source material. The response is vague, lacks
clarity, or is confusing:
1. evidence (facts and details)from the source material is
minimal, irrelevant,absent, incorrectly used, or predominantly
copied
2. insufficient use of citations or attribution to source material
3. minimal, if any, use of elaborative techniques*; emotional
appeal may dominate
4. Vocabulary is limited or ineffective for the audience and
purpose

6. 5. little or no evidence of appropriate style
Insufficient (includes copied text) In a language other than
English Off-topic Off-purpose
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The response demonstrates a thorough command of conventions:
· Clear and varied use of correct sentence formation,
punctuation, capitalization, grammar usage, and spelling
The response demonstrates an adequate command of
conventions:
· adequate use of correct sentence formation, punctuation,
capitalization, grammar usage, and spelling
The response demonstrates a partial command of conventions:
· limited use of correct sentence formation, punctuation,
capitalization, grammar usage, and spelling
The response has little command of conventions:
· little use of correct sentence formation, punctuation,
capitalization, grammar usage, and spelling
The response demonstrates little or no command of conventions
Holistic Scoring:
Variety: A range of errors includes sentence formation,

7. punctuation, capitalization, grammar usage, and spelling
Severity: Basic errors are more heavily weighted than higher-
level errors.
Density: The proportion of errors to the amount of writing done
well. This includes the ratio of errors to the length of the piece.
#include <iostream>
#include <stack>
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;
bool is_operator(int c)
{
return c == '+' || c == '-' || c == '*' || c == '/';
}
int main()
{
char c;
// TO DO: Declare three stacks of char, stk1, stk2, stk3.
cout << "Enter infix expression: ";
while (cin >> c) // Read a character at a time from the
keyboard. End when user enters CTL-D on the next line.
{
// TO DO: If c is not ')', push c onto stk1.

8. }
while ( ! stk1.empty() ) // As long as stk1 is not empty
{
char c;
// TO DO: Save the character at the top of stk1 in c and
pop stk1.
// TO DO: If c is a lower case alphabetic character (a
through z), push c onto stk3.
// TO DO: Else if c is an operator, push c onto stk2.
// TO DO: Else if c is '(', push the character at the top of
stk2 onto stk3 and pop stk2.
}

9. cout << "nEquivalent prefix expression is: ";
// TO DO: while stk3 is not empty, send the character at the
top of stk3 to cout and pop stk3.
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}