7/30/2019 04b Rubric

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7/30/2019 04b Rubric

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Notes

Journal Entries: Students are graded on daily journal entries responding to prompts and questions, as well

as practice in inhabiting different voices and points of view. Especially important in the first week of the

unit in which class time is devoted to a slow, close reading of the story.

Facebook Writing Assignment: Students write a short one page essay on their own experience with

Facebook or what they know about it or other social networking sitesin connection with the main theme

of the unit (the dissonance that can occur in-between ones one internal sense of self (as a subject) and how

they are seen in the world (as an object). Can something like Facebook ever accurately portray who you are

how do people manipulate things like Facebook in order to be seen in a certain lighthow important is it

these days for your online persona to be judged well?

Brainstorming / NotesFinal project is individual (a story written in first person monologuemirroring

the DFW story) and also collaborative (teams of five, each persons character must show up (in reference or

corporeality) in every other group members story (thus each character is subject in their own story object

in anothers). Individual and group brainstorms and notes are collected. I am interested how they got from

A to Z, not just the final productyoud be surprised how much work can go into these things sometimes.

Rough DraftSelf explanatoryrough draft is required to be peer edited by your group (at least two other

members).

Content: Does the story explore the themes and issues that we have investigated as a class? Has there been

a lot of thought put into their character (or, into themselves, if they are writing it autobiographically)?

Organization: Are other group members characters all involved in the narrative? Do the stories flow

together into one coherent chapter to be published? Does the narrative make sense and utilize the first

person monologue POV? Any author intrusion into the story in meta-fictional style (not necessary, but

would be a plus).

Voice: An original and compelling style of writing? Is the personality and abilities of the student as a

subject coming through or was it written perfunctorily?

Structure and Conventions: Sentence structure and grammar. This particular assignment has very malleablerestrictions on this front because of the nature of the writing and the nature of the readingfirst person

interior monologue probably the least grammatically correct method of writing there could possibly be

in fact within the story itself the narrator states that What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all

interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any

given instant."

Dailies: Participation in discussion, group work, reading out loud, etc.

Peer Editing / Evaluation: As stated before, a rough draft must be peer edited (and signed) by at least two

other group members. Time is given for this in class, this grade is based on your editing contribution.

Group members also write a short evaluation writing assignment at the end of the project evaluating their

group members.

Reflection: Students write about a page and half on their experience with the project. What they learned,

what worked, what didnt, what their strengths and weaknesses were, etc. It is important when grading an

assignment that you take into consideration the entire process, which includes reflection and forward-

thinking into what the student believes the next steps are.