Ballad Rubric Balladeer’s Name_______________________________ Ballad Title _______________________________________________________________________ 10 9 8 7 6 0 Ballad is a Unique, Clear and Yup, a Kinda hard Well, you tried Nah, not story fresh clever story to follow a story Dialogue Ballad is Nearly Dialogue There’s At least one line No completely completely does, some is a spoken dialogue told in told in indeed, dialogue character quote dialogue dialogue move the story Four line Always Consistently Mostly Sometimes Well, you tried Nope stanzas Rhythm Regular Rhythm can Rhythm Often a You made a musical be fit into a could be rhythm is start rhythm: song forced into evident lends itself a song to singing Refrain Used Used at Used same Used same Some words No multiple least twice refrain refrain at may have been refrain with with multiple least twice repeated variations variations times Style Language is Language is Language Language is Language Style not simple simple is clear confusing suited to Narration, if Content has Content Content Content may genre present, is elements of fits the may not be not be suited to objective the genre, suited to the the genre and/or with abrupt traditional though genre or there may be transitions and narration there may too much and a focus narration is may take be too narration and/or on kept to a over a bit much narration may traditional minimum narration or be too content narration emotionally (tragic love, may be too involved supernatural, emotionally etc.) involved Extra credit for musical performance
Ballad Rubric Balladeer’s Name_______________________________ Ballad Title _______________________________________________________________________ 10 9 8 7 6 0 Ballad is a story Unique, fresh Clear and clever Yup, a story Kinda hard to follow Well, you tried Nah, not a story Dialogue Ballad is completely told in dialogue Nearly completely told in dialogue Dialogue does, indeed, move the story There’s some dialogue At least one line is a spoken character quote No dialogue Four line stanzas Always Consistently Mostly Sometimes Well, you tried Nope Rhythm Regular musical rhythm: lends itself to singing Rhythm can be fit into a song Rhythm could be forced into a song Often a rhythm is evident You made a start Refrain Used multiple with variations Used at least twice with variations Used same refrain multiple times Used same refrain at least twice Some words may have been repeated No refrain Style Language is simple Narration, if present, is objective with abrupt transitions and a focus on traditional content (tragic love, supernatural, etc.) Language is simple Content has elements of the traditional and narration is kept to a minimum Language is Content fits the genre, though narration may take over a bit Language is clear Content may not be suited to the genre or there may be too much narration or narration may be too emotionally involved Language confusing Content may not be suited to the genre and/or there may be too much narration and/or narration may be too emotionally involved Style not suited to genre Extra credit for musical performance