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Vignette Assignment

Your vignette should be one paragraph to one page in length and should depict a fictional moment that you create based on your observations.

Rubric Code: QX82A99

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 6-8

Vignette Assignment The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
	Excellent 90 - 100 (N/A)	Good 80 - 89 (N/A)	Fair 65 - 79 (N/A)	Poor Below 65 (N/A)
Development of Idea	Excellent The student's thorough and specific development of each idea creates depth of thought in the vignette, enabling the reader to truly understand and appreciate the student's ideas.	Good The student attempts to develop all the ideas included in the vignette.	Fair The student attempts to develop the vignette by listing ideas or briefly explaining them but it is limited and superficial.	Poor The student presents one or more ideas but provides little or no development of those ideas.
Figurative Language	Excellent The writing has many examples of specific and interesting nouns and verbs. Figurative language is used to make the reader experience and visualize what is happening.	Good The writing has examples of specific and interesting nouns and verbs. Figurative language is used to make the reader visualize what is happening, but there are places where revision would have made the writing stronger.	Fair Figurative language is present, but it is minimal. The reader has a difficult time visualizing what is happening. Much more revision should have been done.	Poor Little to no attempt has been made to add figurative language. Writing does not paint a picture for the reader. Little to no revision is evident.
Exaggeration	Excellent Well developed ideas are exaggerated and embellished to add value, insight, and polish to the vignette.	Good The vignette develops several ideas with exaggerations.	Fair Few ideas include or develop the necessary exaggeration of the vignette.	Poor The vignette seems to have no exaggeration.
Dialogue	Excellent Dialogue reveals character traits, personalities, and mood. It is conversational in nature and flows from one thought to the next within the context of the vignette.	Good Dialogue generally reveals character, traits, personalities, mood, and is consistent with style and form of the vignette.	Fair Dialogue sometimes reveals character, traits, personalities, mood, and is sometimes consistent with style and form of the vignette.	Poor Dialogue rarely reveals character, traits, personalities, conflict, mood, and is not consistent with style and form of the vignette.
Grammar and Mechanics	Excellent Writer has completely correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar.	Good Writer has all but a few correct spelling, punctuation and grammar.	Fair Writing has mostly correct spelling punctuation, and grammar	Poor Writer has little to no correct spelling, punctuation, or grammar.

Keywords:

vignette, figurative language, exaggeration, dialogue

Subjects:

English

Types:

Writing

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