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Literature Analysis: Dream or Reality in Midsummer Night

Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream Students must take a position on whether the events in the story were a dream or reality. They must use at least one textual piece of evidence and cite it. They must have a clear thesis.

Rubric Code: YX3X36X

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 9-12

Midsummer Night's Dream Essay
	Excellent 5 pts	Good 4 pts	Fair 3 pts	Poor 2 pts
Introduction	Excellent Extensive and appropriate background information is provided about Midsummer Night's Dream.	Good Background information may be unimportant or sparse about Midsummer Night's Dream.	Fair Background information is accurate but not extensive about Midsummer Night's Dream.	Poor No background information is provided in the introduction about the play.
Thesis	Excellent Thesis clearly states main idea about whether the writer thinks it was a dream or reality and includes three details.	Good Thesis clearly states main idea about whether the writer thinks it was a dream or reality, but lacks details.	Fair Thesis is vague or incomplete or off the topic of dream vs. reality in Midsummer Night's Dream.	Poor Introduction lacks a clear thesis and does not take a position on whether the play is a dream or reality.
Body Paragraphs	Excellent Information is extensive and accurate; details are expanded and used correctly; transition words used between paragraphs AND within paragraphs	Good Information included in the body is sparse or incomplete; details are somewhat expanded upon; transition words utilized between paragraphs	Fair Some information is included in the body; details are not expanded upon; transition words used	Poor Significant information is missing from the body paragraphs; transition words are not used
Parenthetical citation	Excellent There is textual evidence that is properly documented in quotations and parenthesis indicate page number.	Good There is evidence that is not properly documented in quotations; page number might be missing.	Fair An attempt was made to cite and document evidence, but not correctly; page numbers were not included.	Poor No attempt was made to cite or document evidence or evidence is missing completely.
Conclusion	Excellent The conclusion thoroughly summarizes the thesis in a fresh manner.	Good The conclusion is ambiguous or misstates the thesis.	Fair The conclusion is short or simply restates the thesis.	Poor There is no clear conclusion OR the conclusion ends abruptly, rambles on, or lacks a summary of the thesis.
Spelling, punctuation, grammar	Excellent Clear evidence of self-editing; all sentences make sense; complex sentence structure; no grammatical or spelling errors.	Good There are a few errors; most of the sentences are written well with few mistakes; simple sentences; a few spelling errors.	Fair Many grammatical errors throughout the essay; most of the sentences make sense; many spelling errors.	Poor There is no evidence of self-editing; sentences don't make sense; paragraphs not indented properly; too many spelling errors.

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