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Personal Narrative 
Personal Narrative
The students wrote a narrative on a personal experience.
Rubric Code: M3B8XC
By graftonnl
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Subject: English  
Type: Assignment  
Grade Levels: 9-12

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  Advanced

4 pts

Proficient

3 pts

Growing

2 pts

Beginning

1 pts

Mechanics

Produce legible work that has accurate capitalization, punctuation, and has few grammatical and spelling errors.
Advanced

Writer makes no more than 5 error in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
Proficient

Writer makes no more than 10 errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
Growing

Writer makes no more than 15 errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
Beginning

Writer makes more than 20 errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
Sensory Details

Standard W 2.1
Describe with concrete details the sights, sounds, and smells of a scene and specific actions, movements, gestures, and feelings of the characters.
Advanced

The narrative includes sensory and reflective details. They control the mood of the story. They correlate with the artistic mode you chose to express in
Proficient

The narrative contains sensory and reflective details that are present. Mood difficult to understand. It seems to correlate with the artistic mode you chose to express in
Growing

The narrative uses a small, simple amount of sensory and reflective details.
No mood understood.
Having trouble identifying story with artistic expression
Beginning

There is very few sensory or reflective details. No mood understood.
No artistic expression, or no correlation at all.
Location

Standard 2.1
Locate scenes and incidents in specific places.
Advanced

Locates scenes and incidents in specific places in such a way that readers can put themselves in the place of the speaker.
Proficient

Locates scenes and incidents in specific places in a clear way.
Growing

Locates scenes and incidents in specific places, but does not describe at all.
Beginning

Vaguely refers to located scenes and incidents in specific places.
Showing Not Telling

Standard 2.1
Make effective use of descriptions of appearance, images, shifting perspectives, and sensory details.
Advanced

The writer used eye catching verbs and adjectives that "show and not tell." They characterize people by their actions and words, not necessarily by just telling me what they were like.
Proficient

Writer attempts to use eye catching verbs and some adjectives that "show and not tell." They try to characterize people by their actions and words, not necessarily by just telling me what they were like.
Growing

Writer makes little effort to "show and not tell." They characterize people by their actions and words, not necessarily by just telling me what they were like, but it is not understandable.
Beginning

Writer makes a single attempt to "show and not tell." Barely characterizes people by actions or words.
Organization

Standard 2.1
Narrate a sequence of events and communicate their significance to the audience.
Advanced

Writer hooked the attention of the reader in the beginning. Events are in a logical sequence. The conclusion makes the importance of the event clear.
Proficient

Writer has a clear beginning. Most events in order. Clear ending.
Growing

Writers beginning doesn't capture the interest of reader. Events are out of order. There is an unclear ending.
Beginning

Writer has no clear beginning. There are no clear events stated. There is no clear ending.
Theme

Standard 2.2
Analyze the use of imagery, language, universal themes, and unique aspects of the texts.
Advanced

Writer has a clear theme that is easy to relate to.
Proficient

Writer has an identifiable theme.
Growing

Writer has a theme that is evident but unclear.
Beginning

Writer hints at a theme but it is vague and unclear.




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