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Trickster or Treat

Students will create a trickster character, tell a tale, and make a shadow puppet play to demonstrate understanding of the genre, trickster character, and hone speaking and listening skills

Rubric Code: M8C892

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Subject: English

Type: Assignment

Grade Levels: K-5

Southwestern Trickster Tales
	Advanced 5 pts	Proficient 3 pts	Nearing Proficient 1 pts
Writing Process	Advanced Student devotes a lot of time and effort to the writing process (prewriting, drafting, reviewing, and editing). Works hard	Proficient Student devotes sufficient time and effort to the writing process (prewriting, drafting, reviewing, and editing). Gets the job done	Nearing Proficient Student devotes some time and effort to the writing process but was not very thorough. Does enough to get by.
Trickster character	Advanced The trickster is appropriate to the tribe chosen, has characteristics of a trickster, dialogue is included	Proficient The trickster is somewhat appropriate for the tribe, has most of the characteristics of a trickster and very little dialogue is included	Nearing Proficient The trickster is not appropriate for the tribe chosen, or the characteristics are incomplete, there is no dialogue
Organization	Advanced The story is very well organized. One idea or scene follows another in a logical sequence with clear transitions	Proficient The story is pretty well organized. One idea or scene may seem out of place. Clear transitions are used	Nearing Proficient The story is a little hard to follow. The transitions are sometimes not clear
Trickster tale	Advanced Student written tale is original, creative, has the elements of a trickster tale including, but not limited to a lesson, reflects the culture, outsmarts someone, 2 or 3 characters	Proficient Student written tale is original, creative, has the elements of a trickster tale including, at least 4 elements of a trickster tale	Nearing Proficient Student written tale is original, creative, has the elements of a trickster tale including, at least 2 elements of a trickster tale
Spelling/Grammar	Advanced There are no spelling or punctuation errors in the final copy. Character and place names that the author invented are spelled consistently throughout.	Proficient There are one or two spelling or punctuation errors in the final copy.	Nearing Proficient There are 3 or 4 spelling or punctuation errors in the final copy.
Performance	Advanced The puppet show is clear understandable and has a beginning, middle and end. Voices can be heard and understood, actors use the stage to full advantage, actors remain in character and use their voice to convey emotions- the play has all the elements of a trickster tale	Proficient The puppet show is clear understandable and has a beginning, middle and end. Voices can be heard and understood, actors use the stage to full advantage, actors mostly remain in character and use their voice to convey emotions- the play has many of the elements of a trickster tale	Nearing Proficient The puppet show is somewhat clear understandable and has a beginning, middle and end. Voices can be heard, the play has some of the elements of a trickster tale

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