Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Period 8-
Grade
SHORT STORY Scale
Distinguished 4 Proficient 3 Developing 2 Needs Improvement 1
RUBRIC
28=98
27=97
Engaging the Engages the audience with an Adequately engages the audience Makes an attempt to engage the Does not try to engage the 26=95
Audience interesting introduction that audience but is not successful audience or establish the context 25=93
makes the audience connect with of the story 24=92
the story and the writer 23=90
22=88
Elements of a Establishes a situation, plot, point Provides an adequately developed Barely develops the plot; conflict The plot is difficult to follow or
Short Story of view, setting, conflict, and plot, but needs more depth with and resolution are sketchy; more understand and requires further
21=86
resolution using careful detail and conflict, resolution, detail, and detail needed; emotion minimal development; lacks conflict and 20=84
emotion emotion resolution; minimal 19=82
detail/emotion 18=81
17=80
Organization Balances and unifies all narrative Shows a clear attempt at Shows minimal effort to balance There is little or no organization 16=78
elements required in an essay; balancing and unifying the story; and unify the story; chronology present; chronology of events
15=77
chronology of events very clear chronology of events evident of events confusing not present
14=75
13=74
Style and The ideas are clearly and Most ideas are clearly expressed; Some ideas may not be clearly Many ideas are difficult to 12=73
Fluency effectively developed; writing is writing is generally fluent, with expressed; fluency and transitions understand; fluency and 11=72
fluent and polished with effective some use of effective verbs, may be lacking; infrequent use of transitions are lacking; few
verbs, adjectives, and transitions; adjectives, and transitions; thesis effective, verbs, adjectives, and effective verbs, adjectives, and 10=68
thesis clear adequate transitions; thesis unclear transitions; no thesis 9=65
8=62
7=60
Grammar, Demonstrates mastery of the Makes good attempt to Efforts to revise/edit are made but Shows little to no evidence of
Editing, Revising, rules of the English Language revise/edit with only a few errors with many errors in punctuation, proofreading, with many
and Proofreading including punctuation, spelling, in punctuation, spelling, grammar spelling, grammar remaining punctuation, spelling,
and grammar. grammatical errors
Effective dialogue Dialogue incorporated, but Minimally effective dialogue Ineffective/no dialogue
incorporated into essay not totally effective and/or and/or not punctuated
Special Sentence
correctly punctuated correctly correctly
Structures No brushstrokes evident
3rd person narrative clearly 3rd person narrative 3rd person narrative weak
maintained maintained adequately