Maximum length: Two and a half pages Dystopia Chapter Grading Rubric Exceptional (4) Good (3) Fair (2) Poor (1-R) Setting Many vivid, descriptive words are Some vivid, The reader can The reader used to tell when and where the descriptive words figure out when has trouble story took place. are used to tell the and where the figuring out audience when story took place, when and and where the but the author where the story took place. didn't supply story took much detail. place. The main characters are named The main The main It is hard to Characters and clearly described. Most characters are characters are tell who the readers could describe the named and named. The main characters accurately. described. Most reader knows characters readers would very little about are. have some idea of the characters. what the characters looked like. It is very easy for the reader to It is fairly easy for It is fairly easy It is not clear understand the problem the main the reader to for the reader to what problem characters face and why it is a understand the understand the the main problem. problem the main problem the characters characters face main characters face. and why it is a face but it is not problem. clear why it is a problem. There is an appropriate amount of There is too much There is not It is not clear Dialogue dialogue to bring the characters to dialogue in this quite enough which life and it is always clear which story, but it is dialogue in this character is character is speaking. always clear story, but it is speaking. which character is always clear speaking. which character is speaking. The story is very well organized. The story is pretty The story is a Ideas and One idea or scene follows another well organized. little hard to scenes seem in a logical sequence with clear One idea or scene follow. The to be transitions. may seem out of transitions are randomly place. Clear sometimes not arranged. transitions are clear. used.
Maximum length: Two and a half pages Dystopia Chapter Grading Rubric Exceptional (4) Good (3) Fair (2) Poor (1-R) Setting Many vivid, descriptive words are used to tell when and where the story took place. Some vivid, descriptive words are used to tell the audience when and where the story took place. The reader can figure out when and where the story took place, but the author didn't supply much detail. The reader has trouble figuring out when and where the story took place. Characters The main characters are named and clearly described. Most readers could describe the characters accurately. The main characters are named and described. Most readers would have some idea of what the characters looked like. The main characters are named. The reader knows very little about the characters. It is hard to tell who the main characters are. It is very easy for the reader to understand the problem the main characters face and why it is a problem. It is fairly easy for the reader to understand the problem the main characters face and why it is a problem. It is fairly easy for the reader to understand the problem the main characters face but it is not clear why it is a problem. It is not clear what problem the main characters face. Dialogue There is an appropriate amount of dialogue to bring the characters to life and it is always clear which character is speaking. There is too much dialogue in this story, but it is always clear which character is speaking. There is not quite enough dialogue in this story, but it is always clear which character is speaking. It is not clear which character is speaking. The story is very well organized. One idea or scene follows another in a logical sequence with clear transitions. The story is pretty well organized. One idea or scene may seem out of place. Clear transitions are used. The story is a little hard to follow. The transitions are sometimes not clear. Ideas and scenes seem to be randomly arranged.