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Modernist Literary Circle Rubric

Rubric for novella literary circle

Rubric Code: FC2246

By msajschmidt

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Subject: English

Type: Homework

Grade Levels: 9-12

Lit Circle Portfolio 1
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 3 pts	Excellent 4 pts
Essential Questions and Answers	Poor Students prepare factual questions about plot and character.	Fair Students ask factual questions about plot, character, theme, and answer them in minimalist terms.	Good Students ask probing questions about plot, character, theme, context, literary devices, and meaning, and answer them without sufficient detail.	Excellent Students write probing essential questions that consider themes, plot, character, historical context, literary devices, literary movements, the meaning of the work as a whole and answer them using examples and in detail.
Vocabulary	Poor Students find and define 5 Vocabulary Terms.	Fair Students find, define, and illustrate 5 words.	Good Students find, define, illustrate, and provide the etymology of 5 words.	Excellent Students find, define, illustrate, provide etymology of and use in their blog 5 vocabulary words from their novella.
Discussion Blog--Theme	Poor Students make cursory note about their class discussion of their novella.	Fair Students blog about their discussions and revelations during class using examples from the book.	Good Students show the progression of their discussion, their reflection on question, their puzzling out of themes, motifs, literary devices.	Excellent Students create nuanced blog posting for each day's activities in which they question, reflect, puzzle through, redirect, and find themes, motifs, and literary devices in examples. All students participate.
Character's Purpose	Poor Identifies Characters	Fair Identifies and Describes Characters	Good Identifies, describes and determines a purpose for characters	Excellent Identifies characters, describes characters, determines a purpose and makes connections to meaning of entire novella.
Modernism in this novella	Poor Students identify modern themes.	Fair Students identify modern themes and stylistic devices.	Good Students identify modern themes & styles and give examples.	Excellent Students identify modern themes, styles and examples and consider how and why the author uses them in this novella to communicate the larger meaning of the novella.