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Writing A Short Story

This rubric is created to asses in writing a short story project. The students will show their understanding about the characteristics of short story and they will choose the topic of their own short story freely.

Rubric Code: GX54B88

By sarahschlorff

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Subject: English

Type: Project

Grade Levels: 9-12

Writing A Short Story
	Excellent 5 pts	Good 3.5 pts	Fair 3 pts	Poor 2 pts
Audience Purpose	Excellent Presents details targeted at a unique audience appropriate for the story style chosen; successfully narrates the events of a story.	Good Presents details suited at an audience appropriate for the story style chosen; narrates the events of the story.	Fair Presents few details suited to an audience appropriate for the story style chosen; some ideas conflict with narration of story.	Poor Supports no purpose; is not written for a specific audience.
Plot	Excellent Presents events that create a clear sequence of events that are logical and interesting.	Good Presents sequence of events that are relatively logical and interesting	Fair Presents a confusing sequence of events	Poor Presents no logical order
Introduction	Excellent Successfully introduced characters and setting in the introduction.	Good The introduction is used to introduce either characters or setting but not both.	Fair The introduction includes minimal information to set up the characters and setting.	Poor Does not go in-depth with description; does not cover characters or setting.
Point of View	Excellent Writes from a consistent point of view	Good Told from a specific point of view	Fair Contains inconsistent points of view	Poor Uses an inconsistent point of view
Conflict	Excellent The story contains appropriate rising actions that lead to a definite conflict	Good The story contains rising actions that mostly contribute to a definite conflict	Fair The story would benefit from careful selection of rising actions that would be helpful to reaching the conflict	Poor The story contains minimal rising actions and the conflict is unclear.
Grammar	Excellent There is no errors in grammar, punctuation and spelling	Good There are few errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling	Fair There are some errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling	Poor There are many errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling
Use of Language	Excellent Uses interesting and fresh word choices that continue to the story's setting and character	Good Uses variant of word choices and tones to reveal story’s setting and character	Fair Uses cliches and unoriginal expressions	Poor Uses uninspired word choices