RUBRIC FOR POETRY

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CATEGORY Excellent - 4 Good - 3 Satisfactory - 2 Needs Improvement - 1
THE WRITING Student devoted a Student devoted Student devoted Student devoted little
PROCESS / lot of time and adequate time and effort some time and effort time and effort to the
effort to the to the writing process to the writing writing process. It
EFFORT writing process and worked to get the process but was not appears that the student
and worked hard to job done. The poem may very thorough. Does does not care about the
make the poem a have one or two errors. enough to get by. assignment. The poem
good read. The There are several has many errors.
poem has no errors.
errors.
TITLE The poem has a The poem has a title that The poem has a title The poem has no title
title that clearly relates to the poem
relates to the poem
and adds interest to
the theme or
message of the
poem
LENGTH The final draft of The final draft of the The final draft of the The final draft of the
the poem has five poem has four stanzas poem has two to poem has one stanza
or more stanzas consisting of three or three stanzas consisting of three lines
consisting of three more lines. consisting of three or or less.
or more lines. more lines.
STYLE The poem is The poem is written The poem is written The poem lacks style
written with a with a defined with somewhat with style. and the thoughts did not
great sense of style. Thoughts are Thoughts are clear to come out clearly on
style. The poem clear to read and a degree. paper.
has been well understandable.
thought out and
makes sense to the
reader.
VOCABULARY The poem is filled The poem includes The poem includes The poem lacks
with descriptive many descriptive some descriptive description and does not
vocabulary elements and is words and phrases. allow the reader to
(imagery) that appealing. There are There are 1 to 2 visualize the poem.
appeals to the three examples of examples of There are no examples
reader. There are figurative language. figurative language. of figurative language.
three or more
examples of
figurative
language.

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