Establishes and maintains aprecise, Establishesand maintainsaclear, substantiveclaim that addresses all Makes a general claim with an unclear Establishes aclearclaimthat addresses LDC Argumentation 9-12 Controlling Idea specific, and credibleclaim that aspects of the prompt. focus. the prompt, with anunevenfocus. addressesall aspectsof the prompt. Acknowledges limitations and/or the complexity of the issue or topic. Includes details, examples, and/or Includeswell-chosendetails, Includesdetails, examples, and/or quotations from sources examples, and/or quotations from Includes minimal details from sources. quotationsfrom sources that arerelevant thatsupportthe claimand supporting sources thatfully supportthe claim LDC Argumentation 9-12 Selection & Citation of Evidence to the claim. ideas. and supporting ideas. Sources are used without citation. Inconsistentlycites sources. Consistentlycites sourceswith minor Consistently cites sourcesusing formatting errors. appropriate format. Thoroughlyand accurately explains Explanation of ideas and source Explains ideas and source materialto Accuratelyexplains ideas and source Development / Explanation of ideas and source material,using LDC Argumentation 9-12 material is irrelevant, incomplete, or support the argument, withsome material andhow they supportthe Sources logical reasoningto supportand inaccurate. incomplete reasoning or explanations. argument. developthe argument. The student can analyze and C2: Patterns - Students observe patterns C2b.The student can analyze interpret patterns of performance The student can interpret patterns of The student can analyze and in systems at different scales and cite and interpret patterns of and apply it to a reengineered The student can state the patterns of performance of designed systems. The interpret patterns of performance of patterns as empirical evidence for performance of designed system. The student can critique performance of designed systems. student can predict problems in the designed systems to reengineer and causality in supporting their explanations systems to reengineer and their reengineered system and system that may need improvement. improve the system. of phenomena improve the system. provide argument or justification for the application of the new system. C2c.The student can use C2: Patterns - Students observe patterns mathematical representations The student can use mathematical The student can generate and apply in systems at different scales and cite and empirical evidence to identify The student can recall the The student can predict the correct representations and empirical mathematical representations and patterns as empirical evidence for and explain patterns. mathematical representation used to mathematical representation that evidence to identify and explain empirical evidence to identify and causality in supporting their explanations explain a pattern. demonstrates the patterns. patterns. explain patterns. of phenomena **Empirical evidence = experimental evidence** C3: Cause and Effect - Students C3b.The student can suggest The student can suggest cause and The student can connect cause and understand that empirical evidence is cause and effect relationships to The student can identify cause and The student can use cause and effect effect relationships to explain and effect relationships to relate required to differentiate between cause explain and predict behaviors in effect relationships in complex, natural, relationships to explain behaviors in predict behaviors in complex, behaviors in complex, natural, and and correlation and to make claims about complex, natural, and designed and designed systems. . complex, natural, and designed system. natural, and designed systems. designed systems. specific causes and effects. systems. C3: Cause and Effect - Students understand that empirical evidence is C3c.The student can design or The student can critique a design or The student can list possible changes The student can anticipate the effects The student can design or change a required to differentiate between cause change a system to cause change to a system and explain its to a system. of a changed system. system to cause varying effects. and correlation and to make claims about varying effects. varying effects. specific causes and effects.