Personal Narrative/Slice of Life Memoir

Name: ______Class: ______

Content / Advanced—4 / Proficient—3 / Needs Improvement—2 / Not Yet—1
Organization / Paper has an intro/body/closing The paragraphs flow. The final sentences wrap up the piece leaving the reader satisfied / Paper has an intro/body/closing The paragraphs flow. Either the intro does not make the reader want to know more or the final sentences don’t wrap up the piece does or leave the reader satisfied. / Paper is missing either the intro, body or closing. The intro does not make the reader want to know more or the final sentences wrap up the piece does not leave the reader satisfied. There is a lack of flow/order in the paragraphs. / Paper has a weak or missing intro/body/conclusion, the intro does not grab the reader’s attention, the final sentences do not wrap up the piece and/or the paragraphs don’t have a good flow.
Introduction / Paper has a strong intro paragraph with a hook that makes the reader want to find out more. / Paper has an intro paragraph with a hook that makes the reader want to find out more. / Paper’s introduction or hook is weak and does not make the reader want to find out more. / Paper has no introduction and/or hook.
Word Choice / Paper uses rich and sophisticated word choice and varied language throughout / Paper uses good word choice and some varied wording / Paper has simplistic word choice and some words are at times repetitive / Paper has too simplistic word choice and is far too repetitive
Mechanics / Advanced—4 / Proficient—3 / Needs Improvement—2 / Not Yet—1
Figurative Language/ Sensory Details / Paper is rich in sensory details. The writing shows rather than tells, creating a vivid picture without overloading the reader. It contains 3 or more different types of figurative language. / Paper has sensory details. The writing shows rather than tells, creating a visual image without overloading the reader. There are 3 or more types of figurative language but the type of figurative language is not varied. / Paper is more telling than showing and only has 2 different types of figurative language. / Paper only tells what happened and has 1 or no examples of figurative language
Sentence Structure / Paper is well written using a variety of simple and complex sentence structures creating a smooth rhythm to the piece / Papers has a few sentence errors and/or is lacking in variety or complexity / Paper is beginning to be difficult to understand as there are many poorly constructed sentences or fragments / Paper is difficult to read because of too simplistic sentence structure and/or many fragments
Conventions—spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization / Paper is proofread well with only 1 or 2 errors in spelling, punctuation, dialogue and capitalization. / Paper has between 3 to 5 errors in spelling, punctuation, dialogue and capitalization. / Paper has between 6 to 8 errors as proofreading was not done well / Paper has more than 9 errors and shows little to no evidence of proofreading
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Comments: Grade ______