I once sat in on several classes taught by Keith Grove at Dover-Sherborn High School near Boston and noticed that such meetings were critical to his teaching; he had come to realize that the feeling of community (and active participation) they produced made whatever time remained for the explicit curriculum far more productive than devoting the whole period to talking at rows of silent kids.
It's a work in progress, and my first go at making one, but here's an essaytagger.com Common Core compatible rubric for ELA 11-12 Argumentative writing
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