Moundville Narrative Writing Directions & Rubric Your Task: Write a narrative describing a day in the life of a child living in Moundville during the Mississippian period. Use at least 2 characteristics of the Mississippian period in your narrative. Score 4 Advanced 3 Proficient 2 Emerging 1 Minimal Focus Responds skillfully Responds to all Responds to most Responds to some or no to all parts of the parts of the parts of the parts of the prompt & prompt & engages prompt & engages prompt & does not engage the the reader with the reader by attempts to reader because vivid details about introducing engage the reader characters and/or the interesting characters and/or but does not fully narrator are not characters and/or the narrator introduce or introduced narrator provide adequate details for the characters and/or narrator Organization Organizes a Organizes a clear Organizes an Event sequence unfolds event event sequence event sequence unnaturally or illogically, sequence that that unfolds that unfolds but uses few or no unfolds logically logically & may not be logical, transitions, provides no and naturally, naturally, uses uses some conclusion or one not uses transitions transitions to transitions to connected to events skillfully to manage the manage the manage the sequence of sequence of sequence of events, provides a events, provides a events, provides a conclusion that conclusion that conclusion that follows from the somewhat follows clearly follows and narrated events from the narrated reflects on events events Even difficult Spelling generally Spelling correct on Errors in spelling impede Conventions spelling correct, correct, common reader, errors in accurate use of punctuation, some punctuation, capitalization, punctuation, caps, capitalization and capitalization, and punctuation, and and grammar, grammar usually grammatical grammar distract reader, varied sentence correct, no run-on errors, some run-on sentences and structure. sentences or sentences or fragments make ideas fragments fragments difficult to follow. Social Studies Uses more than 4 Uses 4 words Uses only 2 or 3 Does not use words Vocabulary words related to related to words related to related to Mississippian Mississippian Mississippian Mississippian culture culture culture culture
Moundville Narrative Writing Directions & Rubric Your Task: Write a narrative describing a day in the life of a child living in Moundville during the Mississippian period. Use at least 2 characteristics of the Mississippian period in your narrative. Score 4 Advanced 3 Proficient 2 Emerging 1 Minimal Focus Responds skillfully to all parts of the prompt & engages the reader with vivid details about interesting characters and/or narrator Responds to all parts of the prompt & engages the reader by introducing characters and/or the narrator Responds to most parts of the prompt & attempts to engage the reader but does not fully introduce or provide adequate details for the characters and/or narrator Responds to some or no parts of the prompt & does not engage the reader because characters and/or the narrator are not introduced Organization Organizes a event sequence that unfolds logically and naturally, uses transitions skillfully to manage the sequence of events, provides a conclusion that clearly follows and reflects on events Organizes a clear event sequence that unfolds logically & naturally, uses transitions to manage the sequence of events, provides a conclusion that follows from the narrated events Organizes an event sequence that unfolds but may not be logical, uses some transitions to manage the sequence of events, provides a conclusion that somewhat follows from the narrated events Event sequence unfolds unnaturally or illogically, uses few or no transitions, provides no conclusion or one not connected to events Conventions Even difficult spelling correct, accurate use of punctuation, caps, and grammar, varied sentence structure. Spelling generally correct, punctuation, capitalization and grammar usually correct, no run-on sentences or fragments Spelling correct on common some punctuation, capitalization, and grammatical errors, some sentences or fragments Errors in spelling impede reader, errors in capitalization, punctuation, and grammar distract reader, run-on sentences and fragments make ideas difficult to follow. Social Studies Vocabulary Uses more than 4 words related to Mississippian culture Uses 4 words related to Mississippian culture Uses only 2 or 3 words related to Mississippian culture Does not use words related to Mississippian culture
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