iRubric: Writing a Play rubric

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Writing a Play Writing a Play After reading Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, students will write their own play including a Title Page, setting introductions to each scene, characters, stage directions, etc. Rubric Code: M32787 By ellencook Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Writing Grade Levels: 9-12

One-Act 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. Dialogue follows the story.	Good The dialogue is somewhat realistic and interesting. Dialogue follows the story most of the time.	Fair The dialogue is not realistic or interesting. Dialogue seldom follows the story.	Needs Work Dialogue is extremely unrealistic and does not follow the story.
Setting	Excellent Setting is realistic, in detail and present on all scenes.	Good Setting is present for all scenes but not as realistically written.	Fair Setting is not clear before each scene, or is not present on all scenes.	Needs Work No setting at the beginning of each scene.
Characters	Excellent Includes all characters from the story.	Good Includes all important characters from the story.	Fair Missing some characters from the story.	Needs Work Missing important characters from the story.
Nuts and Bolts	Excellent Play is typed, double spaced, and in an acceptable font. No grammatical mistakes. Coverpage has title of play, student name and date.	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 or date) 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, and/or title) are missing.	Needs Work Play is sloppy and hand-written. Many grammatical errors. Coverpage is missing a lot of data.