Your essay should respond to these questions, devoting one to two pages to each:

Your essay should respond to these questions, devoting one to two pages to each:

Your essay should respond to these questions, devoting one to two pages to each:
How does the text you’re writing about express the environment?
What are the environmental problems that the text you’re writing about engages or explores?
How does the text you’re writing about confront the environmental problems it engages, and what are possible solutions to these problems?
For the last question, please use Hawken, Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation (2021), available as an ebook from Livermore Library, to identify and propose solutions.
Format your essay and cite and document your inclusion of external sources in MLA style. For a sample essay formatted in MLA style
Response & Interpretation Essay #2 Rubric
Response & Interpretation Essay #2 Rubric
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeThe essay is five or more pages in length.
0.5 pts
Yes
0 pts
No
0.5 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeThe essay explains, thoughtfully and reasonably, how the text expresses the environment.
0.75 pts
Strongly agree
0.5 pts
Agree
0.25 pts
Disagree
0 pts
Strongly disagree
0.75 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeThe essay identifies, accurately and reasonably, the environmental problems the text engages or explores.
0.75 pts
Strongly agree
0.5 pts
Agree
0.25 pts
Disagree
0 pts
Strongly disagree
0.75 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeThe essay is carefully proofread and edited.
0.25 pts
Yes
0.13 pts
Somewhat
0 pts
No
0.25 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeThe essay demonstrates academic integrity and cites and documents its sources in accordance with MLA style and format.
0.25 pts
Yes
0.13 pts
Somewhat
0 pts
No
0.25 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeThe essay explains, thoughtfully and reasonably, how the text engages or explores environmental problems.
0.75 pts
Strongly agree
0.5 pts
Agree
0.26 pts
Disagree
0 pts
Strongly disagree
0.75 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeThe essay identifies, accurately and reasonably, solutions to the environmental problems the text engages or explores.
0.75 pts
Strongly agree
0.5 pts
Agree
0.26 pts
Disagree
0 pts
Strongly disagree
0.75 pts
Total Points: 4