Rubric


 * || **Check-Plus** || **Check** || **Check-Minus** ||
 * **Quality of Responses** || Responses are relevant, in-depth, and well-thought-out. They expand on the conversation and elicit further discussion, || Responses are relevant but short. Some do not further the discussion. || Responses not always relevant. They are consistently short and do not further the conversation. ||
 * **Number of Responses** || Participants contribute many responses and develop deeply threaded dialogues. || Participants contribute several responses in several conversations. || Participants contribute the minimum required number of responses. ||
 * **Understanding of Novel** || Participants raise and address key questions in an honest attempt to make sense of the novel. Participants are able to articulate connections between chapters and are able to identify ideas and threads tying the novel together. || Participants are able to talk insightfully about different sections or specific chapters of the novel but do not exhibit a sense for how it all ties together. || Participants show enough grasp of concrete detail from the novel to suggest that they have done the reading, but they show little evidence of having engaged intellectually and achieved significant insight. ||