The handouts below are used as students develop their responses to  The Dinner Party in the Writing About Literature section of the Online Essay Scoring System.  I post most of them on my website as students use them in the development of their essays.  This enables them to print out additional copies of everything they have been handed or have worked on in class. 

Read The Dinner Party by Mona Gardner
Link takes you directly to the Holt location of the story.

Literary Analysis Essay Assignment
Introductory Assignment Handout with Graphic Organizer

Graphic Organizer.
Extra copies of the Graphic Organizer

Introductions and Conclusions
The Beginning and the End Handout

Holistic and Analytic Evaluation Rubrics 
System generated feedback handout that is used to help prepare
students for making revisions based on how the system evaluates
their papers. 

Student Model For Scoring Practice
Students use this student written piece to practice the use
of the rubrics for scoring.  The paper is then run through
the online scoring system to compare with the student's
view of it.  This works well in a collaborative setting.

Literary Analysis Essay Scoring Record
Student Handout for Documenting Improvement
This can easily be modified to suit different writing prompts.

Online Essay Scoring Grading Procedures
Student Directions for Submitting and Revising their Essays
This can easily be modified to suit different writing prompts,
teachers, or expectations.

Rough Draft Checklist - Color Coded
This is useful in comparing to The Lorax
Model Paper and Plan below

Peer Feedback and Personal Evolution Sheet
Students use these to evaluate a classmates work before
reflecting on their own.

Lorax Model Essay - Color Coded
Color coded model for text based writing assignment.  Used to
show relationship between the structure of the paper and the
graphic organizer below.

Lorax Essay Plan - Color Coded

This story was used in class to model the Online Essay scoring process.  The examples below demonstrate student responses to the story representing three different scoring levels for revisions written in response to the feedback generated by the model "2" paper.  Students may find that examining the evolution of this paper towards a score of "4" may help them revise their own papers on The Dinner Party.  This process can be duplicated for any of the online essay prompts.

Read Under the Rice Moon by Rhiannon Puck.
Link takes you directly to the Holt location of the story.

Student Model Response - Score 2
Students examine this paper and use the Evaluations Rubrics to score it and generate recommendations for improvement.  This gives them experience using feedback that will be generated by the submissions of their own papers.  The paper is then copied into the scoring system for the related prompt to let the students see how the system works and to compare how the system viewed the paper to their own view of the response. (Remove the checks and the Score before using with students)

Student Model Response - Score 3
Students examine the revision and highlight improvements that have been made.  Students should then rescore the revision before it too is entered into the system and scored.  Discuss whether or not the revision addressed concerns that students noted in the original, and discuss additional needs that could improve the paper even more.
(Remove the checks and the Score before using with students)

Student Model Response - Score 4
Repeat the process above with the final version of the paper.  Emphasize the difference between each paper and how much revision is actually represented within each submission. Students need to recognize that a significant amount of time needs to be spent responding to the first submission of their own papers if they plan on actually improving their scores.  Once Again....(Remove the checks and the Score before using with students)

Online Scoring Procedures

Rough Draft Checklist

Holistic and Analytic Evaluation Rubrics 

Descriptive

Expository

Narrative

How - To

Writing About Nonfiction