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Personal Narrative 
Personal Narrative
Write a Personal Narrative Essay about an important,life-changing event from your life. Describe your memorable event in chronological order. Use the literary element flashback as an introduction technique. Include reactions in your personal narrative such as dialogue and emotions. Include a reflection in your essay on what you learned from this experience. Your personal narrative should be a five paragraph essay with an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
Rubric Code: WX6CCX9
By ELA2015
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Subject: English  
Type: Writing  
Grade Levels: 6-8

Powered by iRubric Personal Narrative
  Poor

1 pts

Fair

2 pts

Good

3 pts

Genre
5 pts

Wrote a personal narrative about an important event in your life. Wrote in first person (I, me, we, us) to tell the reader your story.
Poor

You did not write about an important event in your life and did not use first person point of view.
Fair

You are missing either an important event or did not write in first person point of view (I, me, we, us).
Good

Your personal narrative is about an important event in your life and you wrote in first person using I, me, we, or us.
Elements
  Poor

1 pts

Fair

3 pts

Good

5 pts

Chronological Order
5 pts

Your personal narrative is written in chronological order of the event(s) and when are where it took place.
Poor

Your personal narrative is not in chronological order. The events of your essay were not in order of what happened first, second, third, and last.
Fair

Your personal narrative is incomplete. You used chronological order inconsistently in your essay.
Good

Your personal narrative is in chronological order telling me what happened first, second, third, and last.
Reactions
5 pts

You included dialogue and actions that you or other people did in your personal narrative.
Poor

Your personal narrative does not include any dialogue and actions from you or any other people in your personal narrative to give the reader more details.
Fair

Your personal narrative shows partial dialogue or action that you or any other people did in your personal narrative.
Good

You included dialogue and actions from you or any other people in your personal narrative to give the reader more details.
Reflection
5 pts

Conclude your personal narrative with a reflection on what you learned from this experience.
Poor

Your personal narrative does not contain a reflection telling your reader what you learned from this experience.
Fair

Your personal narrative contains a reflection that is unclear to your reader about what you learned from this experience.
Good

Your personal narrative contains a reflection telling your reader what you learned from this experience.
Format
5 pts

Your personal narrative is a 5 paragraph essay with an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
Poor

Your personal essay does not contain 5 complete paragraphs consisting of an introduction, 3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
Fair

Your personal narrative is incomplete. Paragraphs are missing or incomplete.
Good

Your personal essay contains 5 complete paragraphs consisting of an introduction, 3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
Mechanics
5 pts

Your personal essay has proper sentence structure. Your essay contains complete sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation
Poor

Your personal essay does not have proper sentence structure. It contains sentence fragments and incorrect capitalization and punctuation.
Fair

Your personal essay contains inconsistent sentence structure. Your essay contains sentences fragments or incorrect capitalization and punctuation.
Good

Your personal narrative has proper sentence structure. All of your sentences are complete sentences and each sentence has the correct capitalization and punctuation.



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