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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. Include a hook, dialogue, and descriptive details. Include a reflection in your essay on what you learned from this experience.
Rubric Code: FX96329
By lrmcbride
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Subject: English  
Type: Writing  
Grade Levels: 6-8

Powered by iRubric Personal Narrative
  Poor

Does not meet grade level standards

1 pts

Fair

Below grade level standards

2 pts

Approaching

Approaching grade level standards

3 pts

Good

Meets grade level standards

4 pts

Outstanding

Above and beyond grade level standards

5 pts

Genre
10 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 a specific, important event in your life and did not use first person point of view.
Fair

You did not write about a specific, important event in your life (you may have written about a longer time period) and may have not written in first person point of view (I, me, we, us).
Approaching

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

Your personal narrative is about a specific, important event in your life and you wrote in first person using I, me, we, or us.
Outstanding

Your personal narrative is interesting and engaging to the reader. It is about a specific, important event in your life and you wrote in first person using I, me, we, or us.
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.
Approaching

Your personal narrative is incomplete, but comes close to being complete. You used chronological order in your essay, but you may have given too much or too little detail.
Good

For the most part, your personal narrative is in chronological order telling me what happened first, second, third, and last. You have attempted to include enough information about the events to make it realistic, but not so much as to make it tedious, but there may be some areas where you need to revise.
Outstanding

Your personal narrative is in chronological order telling me what happened first, second, third, and last, and you have included enough information about the events to make it realistic, but not so much as to make it tedious.
Hook
5 pts

You used flashback, description, or another technique to engage your reader at the beginning of your paper.
Poor

You did not use flashback, description, or another technique to engage your reader at the beginning of your paper.
Fair

You used the hook technique incorrectly. You did not state a strong memory of the past event you wrote about.
Approaching

You attempted to create an engaging hook, but you may need to do some revising to make it stronger and more appealing.
Good

You created an interesting hook.
Outstanding

You created an interesting and engaging hook, and the reader wanted to continue reading to find out what else you had to say.
Dialogue
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.
Approaching

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

You included dialogue and actions from you or any other people in your personal narrative to give the reader more details, but you may have had minor errors in the way you presented your dialogue.
Outstanding

You included interesting and engaging dialogue and actions from you or any other people in your personal narrative to give the reader more details. There are no errors in the use of dialogue in your narrative.
Descriptive Detail
5 pts

You included descriptive details and sensory imagery in your personal narrative.
Poor

Your personal narrative does not include any descriptive details or sensory imagery.
Fair

Your personal narrative includes a little descriptive detail or sensory imagery, but more is needed.
Approaching

Your personal narrative includes descriptive details and sensory imagery, but some revision is necessary, or you need to add more details.
Good

Your personal narrative includes a good amount of descriptive details and sensory imagery, but a little bit of revision may be necessary.
Outstanding

Your personal narrative includes a engaging and appealing descriptive details and sensory imagery.
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.
Approaching

Your personal narrative contains a reflection telling your reader what you learned from this experience, but it may be too abrupt and formulaic.
Good

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

Your personal narrative contains an insightful and mature reflection telling your reader what you learned from this experience.
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. There are so many errors that it is difficult for the reader to understand what you are trying to say.
Fair

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

Your personal essay contains some inconsistent sentence structure. Your essay contains some sentence fragments or incorrect capitalization and punctuation, but these do not really affect the reader's understanding of your narrative.
Good

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

Your personal narrative has proper sentence structure. All of your sentences are complete sentences and each sentence has the correct capitalization and punctuation. Sentences flow well because there is a variety of sentence types used.



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