Narrative Essay Rubric (Keep this!

You’ll turn it in with your essay)

Name:______________________ 100 Total Points//Your Score:

Minor League Professional Michael

Novice (D) Olympic (A)
(C) (B) Phelps (EC)
Vague word
10 or more
choice, no Basically, I
1 or 2 sensory 6 or more sensory details.
additional couldn’t put the
details. More sensory details. Constant,
Style details past essay down.
than one More than two vibrant change
basic plot. Sensory details
Use of tone, change in changes in in sentence
Sentence everywhere,
sentence sentence sentence structure. Five
structure does dialogue is not
structure and structure. At structure2. or more uses of
not change only present but
patterns, and least one use of Three or more active dialogue
throughout the is engaging,
language. dialogue1 and uses of dialogue and four or
essay. No and figurative
figurative and figurative more uses of
dialogue or language is
language. 25 language. 30 figurative
figurative unique.
language. 35
language. 20
Essay explains
Content Main character Reader can the significance It’s like I met
Main character
The actual stuff is difficult to understand the of the m.c. M.C. the main
is present and is
the essay is point out. Little m.c., predict is described by character and
the subject of
trying to reference to further actions. vibrant we’re best
the essay. 25
convey. him or her. 20 30 background friends.
info. 35
Organization Lack of Introduction, Intro has Intro grabs the The three
introduction, background engaging reader w/ vivid aspects of this
The quality of
background info, and qualities, lang., backg. essay work
the overall
info, or conclusion all background info info leaves no together, full of
structure of the
conclusion. 5 present. 9 enlightens the details out on transitory
essay.
1
A use of dialogue would count as four completed “quotes.”
2
Change in sentence structure: Changing from simple to complex, compound to simple, etc.
 Narrative Essay Rubric (Keep this! You’ll turn it in with your essay)
Name:______________________ 100 Total Points//Your Score:

M.C., and
the M.C., and
conclusion words. Essay
relevant conc.
shows flows incredibly
disp
significance of smoothly.
significance. 15
M.C. 13
Mechanics

Grammar, 7+ 4+ 1-2 0 grammatical

spelling, 5+
grammatical, grammatical, grammatical, or spelling
formatting. The grammatical,
spelling errors. spelling errors. spelling errors. errors. You
general spelling errors.
3 or more pages 4 pages long. 4 pages long. should be a
qualities the 4 pages long. 9
long. 5 13 15 copy editor.
paper must
meet.