Poetic Justice Rubric
Assignment:
Your turn…thinking about the process of photosynthesis and/or cellular
respiration, write a poem of at least twelve couplets (two rhyming lines) that
describes the steps and substances used and produced by the two
processes.
Points Points
Possible Earned
1. Poem is an original work.
10%
2. Couplets rhyme
10%
3. At least twelve couplets are used.
10%
4a. For photosynthesis, the following steps or processes
are included/described:
+
A) Light reaction: water is split, Oxygen is released, H is
combined with NADP
B) Dark reaction (or Calvin Cycle): carbon dioxide is
30%
taken
+
in and split, H is delivered and combined with the C &
O in a ratio of 1:2:1 or CH2O
4b. For cellular respiration the following steps or
processes are included/described:
A) Glycolysis: glucose (sugar) is split releasing 2 ATP net;
acetyl CoA moves into mitochondrion if oxygen is
present
B) Aerobic respiration: if oxygen is present, it combines
30%
with hydrogen from the sugar to form H2O; the
remaining carbon and oxygen are released as waste
CO2
C) Anaerobic respiration: if no oxygen is present, acetyl
CoA remains in cytoplasm and undergoes fermentation
to produce either alcohol or lactic acid.
5. Processes are described in the correct sequence
10%
Totals
100%