iRubric: Literature rubric

Complete presentation of what makes characters tick: through
physical traits - what the character looks like, how he/she dresses, how he moves
•psychological/personality traits
• motivation
• behavior /actions
• relationships with other characters in the story, how others see/react to him/her
•weaknesses/strengths
• moral constitution - often a character will agonize over right and wrong
• protagonist/antagonist - does the story revolve around this character’s act

Good analysis mentioning a some of what makes the character tick:
physical traits - what the character looks like, how he/she dresses, how he moves
•psychological/personality traits
• motivation
• behavior /actions
• relationships - with other characters in the story, how others see/react to him/her
•weaknesses/strengths
• moral constitution - often a character will agonize over right and wrong
• protagonist/antagonist - does the story revolve around this characte

Sketchy analysis of what makes the character tick:
physical traits - what the character looks like, how he/she dresses, how he moves
•psychological/personality traits
• motivation
• behavior /actions
• relationships - with other characters in the story, how others see/react to him/her
•weaknesses/strengths
• moral constitution - often a character will agonize over right and wrong
• protagonist/antagonist - does the story revolve around this character’s actions?

Poor analysis of what makes characters tick:
physical traits - what the character looks like, how he/she dresses, how he moves
•psychological/personality traits
• motivation
• behavior /actions
• relationships - with other characters in the story, how others see/react to him/her
• weaknesses/strengths
• moral constitution - often a character will agonize over right and wrong
• protagonist/antagonist - does the story revolve around this character’s actions?

Two intelligent responses are both well-written and thoughtful.

Two responses are presented though one or the other is not critical to understanding the work.

Both responses are inadequate to explain the depth of the work; not critical to the work.

Incomplete work.

All formatting exhibits creative organization of materials.

Formatting is typical but nice.

Formatting is not considered an element of this project.

Project is not formatted with care.

The rising action of the book is easy to understand, and is logical. There are no loose ends.

The rising action of the book is easy to understand, and is somewhat logical.

The rising action of the book is a little hard to understand.

No rising action is attempted or it is impossible to understand.

The falling action of the book is easy to understand, and is logical. There are no loose ends.

The falling action of the book si easy to understand, and is somewhat logical.

The falling action of the book is a little hard to understand.

No falling acion is attempted or it is impossible to understand.

Many vivid, descriptive words are used to explain how does the setting affect the characters.

Some vivid, descriptive words are used to explain how does the setting affect the characters.

The reader can figure out how does the setting affect the characters but the student didn't supply much detail.

The reader has trouble figuring out how does the setting affects the characters.

Details are placed in a logical order and the way they are presented effectively keeps the interest of the reader.

Details are placed in a logical order, but the way in which they are presented sometimes makes it less interesting.

Some details are not in a logical or expected order, and this distracts the audience.

Many details are not in a logical or expected order. There is little sense that the information is organized.

Every paragraph has sentences that vary in length.

Almost all paragraphs have sentences that vary in length.

Some sentences vary in length.

Sentences rarely vary in length.