1/7/14

Tonight's homework is to work on your recommendations about how to deal with the issue of grey seal population growth. Use the PowerPoint from class as well as the list of possible interventions to guide your thought process.

Your recommendation:

• As a team of marine biologists, ecologists, town council member, and economist make a recommendation about should be done to deal with the grey seal problem.
• How will your recommended course(s) of action affect the
• Population(s) of gray seals?
• Population(s) of fish?
• Stakeholders discussed earlier?

• Be thorough and use vocabulary/evidence/examples whenever possible.

	Mastery – 4	Proficient – 3	Satisfactory – 2	Needs Revision – 1
Recommendation (Skill)	States clear, nuanced, well-reasoned recommendation	States clear, well-reasoned recommendation	States a logical, but vague recommendation	States an illogical or indefensible position
Support of recommendation (Skill)	Thoroughly supports recommendation(s) with several detailed, convincing, specific reasons/pieces of evidence as well as refuted counterclaims	Thoroughly supports recommendation(s) with multiple detailed, specific reasons/pieces of evidence as well as attempts at forming counterclaims/ refutations of them	Supports recommendation(s) with multiple detailed, convincing specific reason/piece of evidence	Supports recommendation(s) with reasons/ evidence that are not convincing due to lack of detail, specificity, or clarity OR not having enough pieces of evidence to support each claim
Demonstrates knowledge of class material (Populations Content)	Very consistently demonstrates deep knowledge of related material by correctly using vocabulary and explaining examples clearly.	Consistently demonstrates knowledge of related material by correctly using vocabulary and explaining examples.	Demonstrates knowledge of related material by using vocabulary and explaining examples, but with some errors.	Does not demonstrate sufficient knowledge of class material through errors or lack of usage/ explanation.
Writing conventions (Work Habits)	Writes elegantly and in a sophisticated manner while very consistently adhering to spelling and grammar conventions.	Very consistently adheres to spelling and grammar conventions.	Consistently adheres to spelling and grammar conventions.	Mostly adheres to spelling and grammar conventions.