1 pts
2 pts
4 pts
Must show understanding beyond the "excellent" level to receive this rating in any category.
5 pts
Include the title and the author of the literary piece, and retell the piece in your own words.
Write personal allusions. What in the piece reminds you of something, some experience, or someone in life?
Write out the meaning, the message. What do you think the author’s purpose was in writing this piece?
Break the piece apart to show how the parts support the whole (the theme). Do this by either taking one part (for example, symbolism) and tracing that literary device throughout the work, or by taking at least three devices (for example, figurative language, characterization, flashback) and connecting those to the theme.
What other works of literature are like or unlike this work? Compare and/or contrast it to another literary work or movie.
Discuss your opinion of the work supported with specific examples from it.