Georgia Milestones American Literature and Composition Four-Point Holistic Narrative Rubric for High School

The student's response is a well-developed narrative that fully develops a real or imagined experience based on text as a stimulus. • Effectively establishes a situation, one or more points of view, and introduces a narrator and/or characters • Creates a smooth progression of events • Effectively uses multiple narrative techniques such as dialogue, description, pacing, reflection, and plot to develop rich, interesting experiences, events, and/or characters • Uses a variety of techniques consistently to sequence events that build on one another • Uses precise words and phrases, details, and sensory language consistently to convey a vivid picture of the events • Provides a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events • Integrates ideas and details from source material effectively • Has very few or no errors in usage and/or conventions that interfere with meaning*

The student's response is a complete narrative that develops a real or imagined experience based on text as a stimulus. • Establishes a situation, a point of view, and introduces one or more characters • Organizes events in a clear, logical order • Uses narrative techniques such as dialogue, description, pacing, reflection, and plot to develop experiences, events, and/or characters • Uses words and/or phrases to indicate sequence • Uses words, phrases, and details to convey a picture of the events • Provides an appropriate conclusion • Integrates some ideas and/or details from source material • Has few minor errors in usage and/or conventions with no significant effect on meaning*

The student's response is an incomplete or oversimplified narrative based on text as a stimulus. • Introduces a vague situation and at least one character • Organizes events in a sequence but with some gaps or ambiguity • Attempts to use a narrative technique such as dialogue, description, pacing, reflection, and plot to develop experiences, events, and/or characters • Inconsistently uses occasional signal words to indicate sequence • Inconsistently uses some words or phrases to convey a picture of the events • Provides a weak or ambiguous conclusion • Attempts to integrate ideas or details from source material • Has frequent errors in usage and conventions that sometimes interfere with meaning*

The student's response provides evidence of an attempt to write a narrative based on text as a stimulus. • Response is a summary that includes narrative techniques in the summary • Provides a weak or minimal introduction • May be too brief to demonstrate a complete sequence of events • Shows little or no attempt to use dialogue or description • Uses words that are inappropriate, overly simple, or unclear • Provides few if any words that convey a picture of the events, signal shifts in time or setting, or show relationships among experiences or events • Provides a minimal or no conclusion • May use few if any ideas or details from source material • Has frequent major errors in usage and conventions that interfere with meaning*

The student will receive a condition code for various reasons: • Blank • Copied • Too Limited to Score/Illegible/Incomprehensible • Non-English/Foreign Language • Off Topic/Off Task/Offensive