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Writing a Play

Students write their own play with an introduction, characters, narrator about a significant time in American History...westward expansion, civil rights, civil war, and etc...

Rubric Code: D6C927

By akcrow76

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 6-8

Play
	Excellent 4 pts	Good 3 pts	Fair 2 pts	Needs Work 1 pts
Structure	Excellent The play follows the proposed structure, and there is a clear beginning, middle, and end.	Good The play follows the proposed structure, and there is a beginning, middle, and end.	Fair The play hardly follows the proposed structure, and the beginning, middle, and end are somewhat unclear.	Needs Work The play does not have a clear beginning, middle, and ending.
Dialogue	Excellent The dialogue is realistic and interesting.	Good The dialogue is somewhat realistic and interesting.	Fair The dialogue is not realistic or interesting. Dialogue seldom	Needs Work Dialogue is extremely unrealistic
Play Outline	Excellent Outline is highly organized. Describes the story in a detailed manner without giving the ending away.	Good Outline is organized. Describes the story without giving the ending away.	Fair Outline is somewhat organized. Brief, insufficient description of story. Does not give away the ending.	Needs Work Outline is unorganized. Does not describe the story.
Characters	Excellent Includes all characters from this event in history.	Good Includes all important characters from the this event in history	Fair Missing some characters from the event in history	Needs Work Missing important characters from the event in history.
Nuts and Bolts	Excellent Play is typed, double spaced, and in an acceptable font. No grammatical mistakes. Name, date, course, and instructor appears in the corner. Coverpage has title of play.	Good Play is typed, double spaced, and in an acceptable font. Contains a couple grammatical mistakes and /or is missing one required piece of data (name, date, course or instructor's name) from the coverpage. Coverpage has title of play.	Fair Play is typed. Contains several grammatical mistakes and/or two pieces of the required data on the coverpage (name, date, course, instructor's name and/or title) are missing.	Needs Work Play is sloppy and hand-written. Many grammatical errors. Coverpage is missing a lot of data.