Junior final exam plan

You are to write a 1200-1500 word essay (formal 3rd person) or manifesto (informal 1st person) that narrows a particular theme in the class to one specific question and then synthesizes four class texts plus one outside text into a coherent position. 
Additional expectations include proper citations and works cited page. This is due ON PAPER in my office by the end of the English exam period. Here is the link for the course survey. I appreciate your anonymous responses to the class. Thanks. 

Project evaluation criteria below-

• Jenny Price's literary manifesto"Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A."and part 2               
• McKibben's "Global Warming's Terrible New Math" describes our current climate change plight in clear, direct, stark CO2 terms.
• An article in the NYT magazine about legal rights for animals based on Leopold's land ethic. 

• Chris Hayes' article on the New Abolitionism which compares fossil fuel holdings to southern plantation owners holding of slaves. A provocative economic/moral argument.
• Ted Kaczinsky, also known as the unibomber, wrote this environmental manifesto from his cabin off the grid in Montana.
• Here's a NYT magazine article and the website for The Dark Mountain Project which contains another manifesto about environmental despair and failure.  

 Evaluation Criteria---------------------------------------------------------

• Quality of thinking- 50 points
• Narrows topic to a productive, specific question
• Develops the idea and uses sources thoughtfully
• Shows effective choice of four (4) texts and passages
• Incorporates details/examples from sources sufficiently and effectively
• Goes beyond cliche/superficiality into substantive tensions/questions
• Arrives at a considered, personal, coherent conclusion 

• Quality of writing-50 points
• Effective, clear structure- either formal or creative
• Careful editing (MINIMAL WEAK VERBS)
•  Use of title, thesis & topic sentences- either formal or informal
• Uses specific details from text and personal experience to ground ideas in context.