Criteria 1 2 3 4 Control Is difficult to Contains Contains a Contains a follow and general sense controlling clear lacks focus. of direction but idea. controlling lacks focus. idea. Craft No evidence of Evidence of Contains Contains attempt at evidence that evidence that one craft was one craft was used correctly. use correctly and another craft was attempted. Word Choice Contains Attempts to Contains Contains general or use descriptive descriptive precise, ordinary words words to create words to create original, and images. vivid images. fresh words to create vivid images. Organization Poor sense of Elements of Form is Form is form and lack organization consistent and consistent and of organization and form are shows enhances interferes with inconsistent. effective use of overall flow of poem. organization. effectiveness of the poem. Usage/Mechanics Contains Contains errors May contain Contains few repeated errors in spelling that some spelling errors in in spelling that may be errors that are spelling. may be significantly not significantly distracting to significantly distracting to the reader. distracting to the reader. the reader. Audience/Purpose Shows little or Shows some Shows an Clearly shows no awareness awareness of awareness of an awareness of audience audience and audience and of audience and purpose. purpose. purpose. and purpose. Visual Visual Some visual Most visual All visual enhancements enhancements enhancements enhancements Enhancements do not aid in aid in meaning aid in meaning clearly aid in and Meaning of meaning of of poem. of poem. meaning of the poem. poem. Poem
Criteria 1 2 3 4 Control Is difficult to follow and lacks focus. Contains general sense of direction but lacks focus. Contains a controlling idea. Contains a clear controlling idea. Craft No evidence of Evidence of attempt at Contains evidence that one craft was used correctly. Contains evidence that one craft was use correctly and another craft was attempted. Word Choice Contains general or ordinary words Attempts to use descriptive words to create images. Contains descriptive words to create vivid images. Contains precise, original, and fresh words to create vivid images. Organization Poor sense of form and lack of organization interferes with flow of poem. Elements of organization and form are inconsistent. Form is consistent and shows effective use of organization. Form is consistent and enhances overall effectiveness of the poem. Usage/Mechanics Contains repeated errors in spelling that may be significantly distracting to the reader. Contains errors in spelling that may be significantly distracting to the reader. May contain some spelling errors that are not significantly distracting to the reader. Contains few errors in spelling. Audience/Purpose Shows little or no awareness of audience and purpose. Shows some awareness of audience and purpose. Shows an awareness of audience and purpose. Clearly shows an awareness of audience and purpose. Visual Enhancements and Meaning of Poem Visual enhancements do not aid in meaning of poem. Some visual enhancements aid in meaning of poem. Most visual enhancements aid in meaning of poem. All visual enhancements clearly aid in meaning of the poem.
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