iRubric: Biography Writing rubric

-Provides many highlights of the person’s life, including specific details/examples of achievements.
-Shares the person's impact on society or history
-The following are all included: Birth (and Death) date, early life, childhood, adulthood, hometown/country, becoming famous, life at the moment (if the person is still alive, and later life.
-Many interesting details are included
-At least 3/4 references are included in the essay: 2 books,1 online, or 2 books, 2 online

-Several highlights of
the person’s life with some details
-Some of the following are included: early life, childhood, adulthood, hometown/country, becoming famous, life at the moment (if the person is still alive, and later life.
-Most details are included
-At least 2/4 references are included in the essay.

-A few highlights of
the person’s life
-Missing one of the following: early life, childhood, adulthood, hometown/country, becoming famous, life at the moment (if the person is still alive, later life (if no longer living), your feelings about the person
-Few details are included
-At least 1/4 references are included in the essay.

-A couple of highlights of the
person’s life without details
-Missing two or more of the following: early life, childhood, adulthood, hometown/country, becoming famous, life at the moment (if the person is still alive, later life (if no longer living), your feelings about the person
-Needs more detail
-Does not include references

-The writer seems to
be writing from knowledge or
experience of knowing
this person, reliving the life of their subject.
-Elaborates on the person's experiences and feelings during her/his moments.
-Provides correlation between the person and the writer.
-The author paints a complete picture of their life.

-The writer gives an illustration of the person's life and attempts to place him/herself in their position.
-Share some of the person's experiences and feelings during her/his moments.
-Provides some correlation between the person and the writer.
-The author attempts to paint a picture of the person's life.

-The writer relates some of her/his knowledge or experience of this person.
-Gave a few details about the person's experiences and feelings during her/his moments.
-The author vaguely shares the person's emotions and moral personality

-The writer has not provided any information in a
personal way.
-The ideas and the way they are expressed do not connect with the historical figure.
-The author does not give analysis throughout the essay.

-The writer uses sentences in a variety of interesting ways (e.g. compound, complex, and inverted).
-Sentences begin in alternative ways
-Uses variation of words

-The writer attempts to begin
sentences differently.
(e.g. compound, complex, and inverted) with some word variation.

-There is some fluency
in the writing and
variety in sentence
length, but several
sentences begin in similar ways or contain repetitive words.

-Writing fluency is
limited due to
sentences often
beginning the same
way, and little variety
in sentence length/variation.