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Creative Writing Assignment 
Rubric Code: B2CX4B
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Subject: English  
Type: Writing  
Grade Levels: (none)

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  Emerging

1 pts

Partially Proficient

2 pts

Proficient

3 pts

Advanced

(N/A)

Story Sequence

Emerging

The student needs help understanding how events can lead to a logical conclusion. The progression of his or her story leaves the reader with more questions than answers.
Partially Proficient

The student can, with some help, demonstrate that he or she understands how events lead to a conclusion in a story. There may be some questions, but his or her story makes sense.
Proficient

The student has a firm grasp on how events lead to conclusions and can independently show how those event unfold. He or she connects the events well and the reader is entertained.
Advanced

The student writes so fluidly the reader forgets he or she is a student. The sequencing is seamless, meaning that the events flow to a logical conclusion without it seeming as if it was planned.
Setting

Emerging

The student doesn't understand setting, even with a lot of help, and has problems describing things.
Partially Proficient

The student can give a basic setting, but needs a little help with adjectives, adverbs (word choice) to make it come alive.
Proficient

The student can create a pretty descriptive scene without really needing help. He/she understands how to paint a picture with words.
Advanced

The student is so powerfully descriptive that the reader is feels transported to the scene. Metaphors and similes are used to show the flow of time in the setting.
Dialogue

Emerging

Even with a lot of help the student struggles at creating dialogue that fits the characters and punctuating it correctly.
Partially Proficient

The students can, with some help, create a dialogue between two or more characters and punctuate it correctly.
The characters don't always fit their dialogue, but it's pretty close.
Proficient

The student understand dialogue and can punctuate it correctly. The dialogue seems to fit the characters pretty well.
Advanced

The dialogue is mechanically perfect (punctuation). For all the reader knows, Steinbeck could have written it!
Conventions

Emerging

Even with help, the student's writing is filled with spelling and grammatical errors that make the piece difficult to read.
Partially Proficient

With help, the student can write something that is understandable; there may be frequently misspelled words and grammatical errors, but it's comprehensible.
Proficient

The student has a firm grasp on spelling and grammar. There may be a few mistakes, but for the most part the conventions do not get in the way of story telling.
Advanced

The work is flawless in terms of conventions, and may even try to attempt to use complex sentences, colloquial language and sentence fragments in a creative way.
Workshop and Behavior

Emerging

Even with redirection, the student does not work effectively in class and does not participate in workshop. He or she may actively attempt to derail the workshop out of avoidance or spite.
Partially Proficient

With some redirection, the student participates to some degree in the workshop and for the most part uses his/her time well in class.
Proficient

The student takes the workshop seriously, shares his or her work willingly, even when nervous, and works dutifully in class.
Advanced

The student is exemplary and takes a business attitude towards completing the assignment. They give careful and thoughtful feedback to others.
Drafting and Finalizing

Emerging

The student does not produce a second draft, or is the second draft is merely a copy of the original.
Partially Proficient

The student produces a second draft, but it is largely a direct copy from the first with a few minor corrections.
Proficient

There is evidence of thoughtful revising from the first and second copy. There are notes written in margins, workshop notes, etc showing feedback from others.
Advanced

Evidence shows that the student making conscious edits and revisions; there are questions asked in notes and on drafts that demonstrating that the student was concerned about making an excellent story.




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