Thursday, April 23, 2015

Hemingway Project Rubric

Project Rubric:
9-10: story is imaginative, clever, well written, grammatically sound (almost completely free of proofreading, mechanical or spelling errors), story uses effective dialogue and effective description, story has an interesting theme, character is effectively characterized through all drafts, enhanced by clever and creative use of flashback and stream of consciousness. Story is turned in on time and is of excellent length, appropriate and effective for this story and its plot. Work is properly formatted as fiction. Story has a clever and creative title. Dialogue, paragraphing, and sentence structure is punctuated correctly with care and craft that makes the sentence variety interesting and effective. 
8: story is mostly well written, with some gaps or weaknesses, but nothing that makes reading the story laborious or difficult. Story is mostly grammatically sound (some errors) but nothing that gets in the way of comprehension. Story has some dialogue and description, but work is not as compelling as scores of 9-10. Character is developed by stream of consciousness and flashback sequences in some way. Story is turned in on time and is of adequate length for this project. The final draft is properly formatted as fiction. Story has an appropriate title. Dialogue, paragraphing, and sentence structure is overall adequately presented.
7: story is completed, turned in on time, but lacks the imagination and creativity of scores of 8-10. Some moments of storytelling, but story may need more plot development, conflict, character development, or attention to detail and specifics. Story might have dialogue or description, but this is relatively uninteresting, repetitive, unnecessary, or weakly presented by the author. Character lacks development. Flashback and stream of consciousness scenes are too limited or ineffective. Story may be late (missed deadline), and is on the shorter less developed in length. Work may have formatting errors. Story has a title. Dialogue, paragraphing, and sentence structure may have several errors.
5-6: story is as 7 above, but may be very late, or there are so many grammar and development or writing problems that makes comprehension difficult for a typical reader. Work is carelessly or hastily done. Student spent more time off-task in the lab than working on this project. Story lacks a title. Student still does not understand how to punctuate dialogue, use paragraphing, and create adequate sentences, often lacking punctuation or capitalization in the draft.
0: story or project not turned in.

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This course stresses understanding the characteristics & techniques in the literary genres of fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing. This course will continue to build on students’ reading and writing skills begun in previous creative writing classes. Readings and discussions of works by major writers in the field will be examined as inspiration and models of fine writing. This educational blog is designed for the use of the students at the School of the Arts in Rochester, NY.