24 Rubric: Point of View Stories

• Detailed, vivid descriptions using the senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, smell.
• Details are shown not told.
• Dialogue moves the plot, increasing suspense, showing readers a trait(2) of the character(s), and/or changing the situation or conflict the characters are in.
• Setting is the backdrop of the story.
• Character are known through physical descriptions, dialogue, and/or interaction with others.
• Three drabbles written, which are 100 words each.

• Stories are told in multiple paragraphs if necessary.
• Paragraph breaks occur when the scene shifts.
• Each time a different character speaks a new paragraph is created.
• The story arcs like Freytag’s plot chart.

• First story is a first-person, unreliable narrator
• Second story is a third-person, detached narrator
• Third story is a first-person or third-person naive narrator.
• Doesn’t use second-person pronouns: you, your, yourself except in dialogue.

• Uses specific nouns.
• Uses action verbs.
• Does not use words like really, always, very, a lot.

• No fragments.
• No run-on sentences.
• No awkwardly constructed statements.
• Well-crafted sentences.

• Effective with little or no additional revisions.

• Grammar, especially correct verb tense.
• Capitalization of proper nouns
• Punctuation, especially commas and periods.
• Spelling

10/10

• Name heading
• Titles
• Double-spaced
• 1″ margins
• 12 pt. easy-to-read font
• Page number heading
• Paragraphs indented 5 to 7 spaces–one tab