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Name: ____________________________

Section: _______

Date: ________

Literary Essay
Directions: After reading a selection of short stories, select one to focus on in your literary essay.
Then, identify a theme and explain how the author develops this theme throughout the text. Use
details from the text to support your answer.
In your response, be sure to:
Identify a theme presented in the short story
Explain how the author develops the theme throughout the text.
Use details from the text to support your answer.
Rubric for Literary Essay
Outcome
Plan
Make deliberate
plans, reflect, and
persevere in order
to achieve goals.

Not Yet
___ During class work
periods, student is off
task.
___ Student does not
meet deadlines.
___ Student gives
little to no
consideration to peer
and/or teacher
feedback. There is
barely any or no
evidence of revision to
incorporate lessons
learned in class.

Discern
View, read, and
listen with focused
attention to what
matters.

___ Student is unable


to identify a theme
from the story.
___ Student is unable
to identify and cite key
points in the text that
aid in the development
of the theme.

Meets Standards
___ During class work
periods, student is on
task most of the time,
but may need some
teacher redirection.
___ Student meets
most deadlines.
___ Student gives some
consideration to peer
and/or teacher feedback
and some evidence of
revision to incorporate
lessons learned in class.
Revisions may be
relatively small in
nature.
___ Student
successfully identifies a
theme from the short
story, though it may be
basic or clich.
___ Student
successfully identifies
and cites key points in
the text that aid in the
development of the
theme.

Exceeds Standards
___ During class work
periods, student is on
task and needs no
teacher redirection.
___ Student meets all
deadlines.
___ Student gives
strong consideration to
peer and/or teacher
feedback. Her drafts
show evidence of strong
and effective revisions
that incorporate lessons
learned in class and that
greatly add to the quality
of her piece.
___ Student successfully
identifies a complex and
sophisticated theme
from the short story,
using original and
unclichd language.
___ Student successfully
identifies and cites key
points in the text that aid
in the development of
the theme.

Communicate
Make ideas and
information
understood,
mindful of
audience, purpose,
and setting.

___ Student
introduces the topic in
a manner that does not
logically follow from
the task and purpose.

___ Student clearly


introduces the topic in a
manner that follows
from the task and
purpose.

___ Student provides


irrelevant, invalid, or
no evidence.

___Student develops
the topic with relevant
facts, details, and
examples from the text.

___ Student
demonstrates little or a
very literal
understanding of the
text. Most of the essay
is summary.
___ Student exhibits
no or partial attempt at
organization, with
inconsistent use of
transitions.
___ Student provides a
concluding statement
or section that is
illogical or unrelated to
the topic and
information presented.

Be Precise
Accurately
represent
solutions, ideas,
and language.

___ Student
demonstrates a lack of
command of
conventions, with
frequent errors that
hinder comprehension.
___ Student does not
properly cite evidence.

___ Student
demonstrates gradeappropriate analysis of
the text.
___ Student exhibits
clear organization, with
the use of appropriate
transitions to create a
unified whole.

___ Student clearly


introduces the topic in a
manner that is
compelling and follows
logically from the task
and purpose.
___ Student develops
the topic with relevant
and varied well-chosen
facts, concrete details,
and examples from the
text.
___ Student
demonstrates insightful
analysis of the text.

___ Student exhibits


clear organization, with
the skillful use of
___ Student provides a appropriate and varied
concluding statement or transitions to create a
section that follows from unified whole and
enhance meaning.
the topic and
information presented.
___ Student provides a
concluding statement or
section that is
compelling and follows
clearly from the topic
and information
presented.
___ Student
demonstrates gradeappropriate command of
conventions, with
occasional errors that do
not hinder
comprehension.
___ Student generally
cites evidence properly.

___ Student
demonstrates gradeappropriate command of
conventions, with no
errors.
___ Student properly
cites all evidence.

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