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Contemporary Morality Play

Evaluates how well students have written a contemporary morality play whose allegorical protagonist and characters, both vices and virtues, create a lesson for a modern Everyperson.

Rubric Code: PX5327A

By JGolebiowski

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Subject: English

Type: Assignment

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Contemporary Morality Play
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 3 pts	Excellent 4 pts
Plot structure 2 pts	Poor The play lacks a clear beginning, middle, and end of the protagonist's journey.	Fair The play contains a clear beginning, middle, or end of the protagonist's journey, but not all three.	Good The play contains a clear beginning, middle, and end of the protagonist's journey.	Excellent The play contains a clear beginning, middle, and end of the protagonist's journey. It is creative and interesting.
Plot development 4 pts	Poor The development of the plot does not result in teaching a moral lesson.	Fair The development of the plot is such that it highlights a moral lesson but the moral lesson becomes lost in the plot or not "convincingly" learned.	Good The development of the plot results in teaching a moral lesson.	Excellent The development of the plot results in teaching a moral lesson. The ending is on a positive note.
Protagonist 3 pts	Poor The protagonist is not easy to relate to and not sympathetic.	Fair The protagonist is either easy to relate to or sympathetic, but not both.	Good The protagonist is both easy to relate to and sympathetic.	Excellent The protagonist is easy to relate to, sympathetic, holds the audience's interest, and becomes a character for whom the audience roots.
Protagonist & His Goal 4 pts	Poor The protagonist lacks a clearly defined goal to achieve or problem to solve.	Fair The protagonist has a clearly defined goal to achieve or problem to solve, but it is of no importance or consequence.	Good The protagonist has an important, life changing goal to achieve or problem to solve.	Excellent The protagonist achieves his/her important life changing goal or solves his/her problem in a morally satisfactory way.
Characters 4 pts	Poor The characters are not personifications of abstractions such as flesh, gluttony, lechery, sloth, pride, envy, riches, hope, charity, etc. The characters do not consist of both vices and virtues.	Fair The characters are personifications of abstractions such as flesh, gluttony, lechery, sloth, pride, envy, riches, hope, charity, etc. The characters consist of either vices or virtues, but not both.	Good The characters are personifications of abstractions such as flesh, gluttony, lechery, sloth, pride, envy, riches, hope, charity, etc. The characters consist of both vices and virtues.	Excellent The personifications, both positive and negative, are interesting, colorful characters in their own right.
Names & descriptions & actions 3 pts	Poor The names are not allegorical in nature and the descriptions of the characters are not fitting. The actions are also not befitting the allegorical personage.	Fair The allegorical figures are not indicative of their names with regards to the characters' descriptions or actions.	Good The allegorical figures are linked to their names by their descriptions and actions.	Excellent The allegorical figures are tightly linked to their names by their descriptions and actions.
Setting 2 pts	Poor The play's locale is not discernable. The play's time period is not discernable. The play's setting is not described well.	Fair The play has a specific location, but it is not immediately well defined. The play has a definite time period, but it is not immediately well defined.	Good The play's locale is well defined at the beginning of the play. The play's time period is well defined at the beginning of the play.	Excellent The play's locale and time period are well defined, highly imaginable as written, and appropriate for the purpose of the play.
Dialogue 2 pts	Poor The dialogue does not sound natural or realistic. The dialogue is not individual to each character. The dialogue is often used in place of action.	Fair The dialogue sounds either unnatural or unrealistic. The dialogue is mildy individual to each character and generally serves to uphold and advance the action.	Good The dialogue sounds natural and realistic. The dialogue is individual to each character. The dialogue consistently serves to uphold and advance the action.	Excellent The natural and realistic dialogue is also creative and interesting, in addition to consistently upholding and advancing the action. The diction is appropriate.
Conflict 3 pts	Poor The conflict is confusing. The play does not capture or keep the attention of the audience due to a lack of convincing conflict.	Fair The conflict may be or may not be confusing. The play captures but does not keep the attention of the audience due to a lack of convincing conflict.	Good The conflict is defined. The play captures and keeps the attention of the audience.	Excellent The conflict is clearly defined. The play is highly suspenseful from start to finish.
Finished product 2 pts	Poor The play might be handwritten, not computer-generated. There are spelling errors and mechanical errors.	Fair The play is computer-generated. There are spelling errors and/or mechanical errors.	Good The play is computer-generated. There are no spelling errors. There are only a few, if any, minor mechanical errors.	Excellent The play is computer-generated. There are no spelling or mechanical errors.

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