Original Narrative for Hurston Performance Assessment

Standards Addressed: 4, 5, 7

 

 

Focus

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·       All the information is necessary to maintain a thread of central meaning

·       Demonstrates a consistent awareness of task and audience

·       Does not include non-essential information

Content

 (Context, Control, Implications, Believability, and Impact)

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·       Context – embodies the relationship between place, tradition, history, and story

·       Control – story allows for a figurative reading that is suggested by identifiable literary devices/techniques such as:

              -allegorical details, archetypes and archetypal patterns, allusion, imagery, imagery patterns,  metaphor,

               personification, simile, symbolism, point of view (unreliable narrator), resolution (realization, incipient

               realization), characterization details, foil characters, narrative structure (frame)

·       Implication – the figurative level of the story develops a clear thematic issue, the “So What?” implication.

·       Believability – the story is believable—sufficient details, development

·       Impact – The story intrigues the reader with its originality or ability to compel attention and/or provoke thoughtful response.

Organization

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·       Clear order established and sustained within and across paragraphs using implicit and explicit transitional devices

·       Effective framing of narrative – clear beginning, middle, and end

·       Logical and coherent development of plot

Style

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·       Dialogue and Dialect – appropriate and consistent tone, rhythm, and word choice. 

                                         – colorful figurative language, in particular metaphors and imagery, weaved throughout

·       Authentic — uses precise diction and phrasing to resonate sounds, songs, and/or stories of Southern Black folk tradition  

·       Folkloric techniques – features of orality or performance, moral features or social commentary

                                      -- fuses folk reality with animated characterization and setting  

Conventions

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·       Paper reflects careful proof reading

·       Adheres to Focal Correction Areas discussed in Nine Ways To Improve Your Writing (when appropriate to narrative structure)

             -active rather than passive voice

             -consistent and appropriate point of view

             - commas used judiciously

             - pronoun agreement and clarity

             - verb tense consistency

 

Weights                                  Scores                         Total/Grade

Focus (2)                      _____

Content (4)                   _____

Organization (2)            _____                                    

Style (4)                        _____

Conventions (2)             _____

 

 

Adapted from Carol H. Rohrbach’s Critical Essay rubric and Peeling the Onion Performance Assessment rubric

 
 
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