Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Prompt and Rubric

Prompt

You are to write a narrative that needs to be a minimum of 4 pages, that takes place after you have been sorted in to your house. You can use characters from the book or from your own life and it should take place at places that J.K. Rowling used in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone or you can create your own places, as long as they fit in with the world that Rowling created. Your characters should face some kind of obstetrical, it can be anything from bullying to what color one of your characters should dye their hair, the sky is the limit. Please look at the California Common Core Standard and the rubric to make sure that you put everything in to your narrative paper. Remember have fun with this paper!

Due Dates:

Points:

Assignments: 5 x 10 points = 50 points

Rough Draft: 5 points

Final Draft: 100 points


Rubric

Narrative Rubric

Score Levels

Content

Conventions

Organization

Narrative Techniques

4

  • Is well thought out and supports challenge
  • Has clear goal and story line
  • No spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors
  • High-level use of vocabulary and word choice
  • Information is clearly focused in an organized and thoughtful manner
  • Information is constructed in a logical pattern to support the solution
  • Great Pacing, multiple plot lines, and Dialogue
  • Shows a great understanding of what a narrative paper should look like

3

  • Is well thought out and has a good story line
  • Has a good goal and story
  • Few (1 to 3) spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors
  • Good use of vocabulary and word choice
  • Information supports the challenge
  • Has good organization
  • Good Pacing, multiple plot lines, and Dialogue
  • Shows a good understanding of what a narrative paper should look like

2

  • Provides moderate information
  •  Goal and story are not that clear
  • Minimal (3 to 5) spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors
  • Low-level use of vocabulary and word choice
  • Project has a focus but might stray from it at times
  • Information appears to have a pattern, but the pattern is not consistently carried out in the project
  • Okay Pacing, multiple plot lines, and Dialogue
  • Shows a okay understanding of what a narrative paper should look like

1

  • Provides inconsistent information
  • Has no clear goal or story
  • More than 5 spelling, grammatical, or punctuation errors
  • Poor use of vocabulary and word choice
  • Content is unfocused and unorganized
  • Information does not support challenge
  • Information has no apparent pattern
  • Poor Pacing, multiple plot lines, and Dialogue
  • Shows a poor understanding of what a narrative paper should look like
 

California Common Core State Standards

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.

v a. Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or observation, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth progression of experiences or events.

v b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.

v c. Use a variety of techniques to sequence events so that they build on one another to create a coherent whole.

v d. Use precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the experiences, events, setting, and/or characters.

v e. Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on what is experienced, observed, or resolved over the course of the narrative.

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