“A Mile in their Shoes” Rubric

Student Name: ________________________________________

CATEGORY 4 3 2 1
Exceeds Standards Meets Standards Below Standards Well Below Standards
• All included: • All included: • Incomplete: •Incomplete: Birthplace,
Birthplace, Early Life, Birthplace, Early Life, Birthplace, Early Life, Early Life, Educational
Educational History, Educational History, Educational History, History, Work History,
Work History, Work History, Work History, Significant Personal Events,
Significant Personal Significant Personal Significant Personal Significant Historical
Ideas & Events, Significant
Historical Events,
Events, Significant
Historical Events,
Events, Significant
Historical Events,
Events, Recreation

Content Recreation Recreation Recreation

•Writer knows topic •Writer knows the topic. •Writer doesn’t know •Writer doesn't know topic
really well •Most details are enough about the topic •Many details lacking
•Many interesting relevant & interesting •Needs more relevant •Ideas missing or don't make
details, all relevant details sense
•Carefully organized •Fairly well organized •Somewhat organized •Not well organized
with varied transitions •Most details are in •Several details are out •Too many details are out of
•Grabs viewer’s chronological order of order order
attention •Bibliography/Works •Bibliography/Works •Bibliography/Works Cited
Organization • Details are in Cited is included Cited is incomplete is missing
chronological order
•Bibliography/Works
Cited is included
•Writer's personality • Most of the time the •Sometimes the writer's •Writing is flat and does not
comes through in a writer's personality voice comes through, reflect the writer’s
creative way shows up in the writing. but over the writing personality
Voice does not draw the
reader in

•Has FEW or NO errors •Has FEW errors in •Too many errors in •Capitalization, punctuation,
in capitalization, capitalization, capitalization, spelling & grammar
punctuation, spelling & punctuation, spelling & punctuation, spelling & mistakes make the writing
Conventions grammar grammar grammar make the very difficult to read &
•Writing is easy to read •Sounds correct when writing difficult to read understanding.
read aloud •Editing needed •Major editing needed