DISTINGUISHED: PROFICIENT: 3
4 EXPECTATION
ELEMENT
S OF A Students successfully and
masterfully incorporate
MEMOIR the three major elements
(25%) of memoir writing that we
discussed in class:
sensory writing, dialogue,
and hooks
SPECIFIC
MEMOIR Usage of the specific
memoir skills of sorting
SKILLS fact from truth, telling the
(25%) understory, and AMIS is
evident and incorporated
successfully and naturally
CLARITY
OF Students meet the
page/style requirements,
WRITING successfully avoid
(10%) grammatical mistakes,
and the writing is overall
clear
GROWTH
(40%) Students successfully
accomplish revision goals
created during writing
conferences
Goal-based revisions are
purposeful, thoughtful,
and significantly enhance
the memoir from its first
draft
APPROACHING
Students successfully
incorporate the three
major elements of memoir
writing that we discussed
in class (sensory writing,
dialogue, and hooks) but
lack a comprehensive
understanding of one
component
Usage of the specific
memoir skills of sorting
fact from truth, telling the
understory, and AMIS is
evident but only two are
incorporated successfully
and naturally
Students meet the
page/style requirements
and the writing is overall
clear, but a few
grammatical mistakes are
present and obvious
Students accomplish most
of the revision goals
created during writing
conferences
Goal-based revisions are
purposeful and
thoughtful, but could be
developed even further to
enhance the memoir from
its first draft
RETHINKING
REQUIRED: 1
S: 2
Students do not Students incorporate
incorporate all three only one of the
elements of memoir elements of memoir
writing that we writing that we
discussed in class discussed in class
(sensory writing, (sensory writing,
dialogue, and hooks) dialogue, and hooks)
OR do so but lack a OR include all
comprehensive components but lack a
understanding of two comprehensive
components understanding of them
all
Usage of only two of Usage of only one of
the specific memoir the specific memoir
skills (sorting fact skills (sorting fact from
from truth, telling the truth, telling the
understory, and understory, and AMIS)
AMIS) is evident OR is evident OR all are
all are included but included but none are
only one is incorporated
incorporated successfully and
successfully and naturally
naturally
Students meet the Students do not meet
page/style the page/style
requirements, but requirements and
grammatical mistakes significant grammatical
influence the clarity of mistakes influence the
the writing clarity of the writing
Students do not Students do not
accomplish most of accomplish any of the
the revision goals revision goals created
created during writing during writing
conferences conferences
Goal-based revisions Goal-based revisions
are evident but require are not evident and
further development to require significant
enhance the memoir further development to
from its first draft enhance the memoir
from its first draft