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Personal Narrative

Write a Personal Narrative Essay about an important,life-changing event from your life. Describe your memorable event in chronological order. Use sensory details. Include reactions in your personal narrative such as dialogue and emotions. Your personal narrative should be a five paragraph essay with an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion.

Rubric Code: YXBW4C7

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 9-12

Personal Narrative
	Poor 5 pts	Fair 20 pts	Good 40 pts
Genre 40 pts	Poor You did not write about an important event in your life and did not use first person point of view.	Fair You are missing either an important event or did not write in first person point of view (I, me, we, us).	Good Your personal narrative is about an important event in your life and you wrote in first person using I, me, we, or us.
Elements
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 5 pts	Good 10 pts
Chronological Order 10 pts	Poor Your personal narrative is not in chronological order. The events of your essay were not in order of what happened first, second, third, and last.	Fair Your personal narrative is incomplete. You used chronological order inconsistently in your essay.	Good Your personal narrative is in chronological order telling me what happened first, second, third, and last.
Sensory details 10 pts	Poor You used (highlighted) one or two sensory details in your personal narrative.	Fair You used (highlighted) three of the five sensory details in your personal narrative.	Good You used (highlighted) all five sensory details in your personal narrative.
Reactions 10 pts	Poor Your personal narrative does not include any dialogue and actions from you or any other people in your personal narrative to give the reader more details.	Fair Your personal narrative shows partial dialogue or action that you or any other people did in your personal narrative.	Good You included dialogue and actions from you or any other people in your personal narrative to give the reader more details.
Format
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 7 pts	Good 15 pts
Format 15 pts	Poor Your personal essay contains no elements of a plot diagram and is 1-2 pages in length.	Fair Your personal essay contains some elements of a plot diagram and is 2-3 pages in length.	Good Your personal essay contains all the elements of a plot diagram and is 3-5 pages in length.
Mechanics 15 pts	Poor Your personal essay does not have proper sentence structure. It contains sentence fragments and incorrect capitalization and punctuation.	Fair Your personal essay contains inconsistent sentence structure. Your essay contains sentences fragments or incorrect capitalization and punctuation.	Good Your personal narrative has proper sentence structure. All of your sentences are complete sentences and each sentence has the correct capitalization and punctuation.

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Personal Narrative

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English

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