The purpose of this writing sampler is to provide teachers and students with work representing each of the rubric score points for the stand alone writing prompt on the 2001 Delaware Student Testing Program. The student papers included in this document are part of the "anchor sets" (collections of scored student work "anchored" to each of the score points on the Delaware writing rubric) created by Delaware teachers in February of 2001. Papers in the anchor set represent a consensus of thinking by the teacher committee that score it; the complete sets are used to train scorers of the Delaware student papers. Each student paper in this sampler includes a commentary explaining the reasoning for the assigned score point. Suggestions that might improve the student writing are also included. (RS)