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Personal Narrative Personal Narrative The students wrote a narrative on a personal experience. Rubric Code: Q26X86 By TeacherWeee Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Assignment Grade Levels: (none)

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	Advanced 5 pts	Proficient 4 pts	Growing 3 pts	Beginning 2 pts	Considering Beginning 1 pts
Grammar and Spelling (Conventions) Standard 1.1 and 1.2 Demonstrate control of grammar, diction, and paragraph and sentence structure. Produce legible work that has accurate spelling.	Advanced Writer makes no more than 2 errors in grammar and spelling.	Proficient Writer makes 3-4 errors in grammar and spelling.	Growing Writer makes 5-7 errors in grammar and spelling.	Beginning Writer makes more than 8-10 errors in grammar and spelling.	Considering Beginning 10 or more mistakes in grammar and spelling.
Capitalization and Punctuation(Con) Produce legible work that has accurate capitalization and punctuation.	Advanced Writer makes no more than 2 error in capitalization or punctuation.	Proficient Writer makes 3-4 errors in capitalization or punctuation.	Growing Writer makes 5-7 errors in capitalization and punctuation.	Beginning Writer makes more than 8-10 errors in capitalization and punctuation.	Considering Beginning 10 or more mistakes in capitalization and punctuation.
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.	Considering Beginning There is no sensory details, no mood, no tone. Story is flat. No correlative artistic expression
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.	Considering Beginning Scenes and incidents are not located.
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.	Considering Beginning Writer uses NO effort to "show and not tell".
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.	Considering Beginning Writer has no organization. The writing does not reflect a story.
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 relateable to the reader.	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.	Considering Beginning Writer has no theme.
Prewriting 2.2 Analyze use of imagery, language, and themes in unique aspects	Advanced All graphic organizers are complete and go above and beyond the expectation of planning.	Proficient All graphic organizers are complete.	Growing Most graphic organizers are complete.	Beginning The graphic organizers have information filled in that is incomplete ir irrelevant.	Considering Beginning Writer has no evidence of prewriting.
Requirements Met -3-5 pages -12 pt font -New times Roman -Double Spaced	Advanced Paper meets MLA formatting requirements.	Proficient Paper follows meets all requirements except one.	Growing Paper meets a tleast 2 of the requirements.	Beginning Paper meets 1 of the requirements.	Considering Beginning Paper does not meet any of the requirements.

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