NATIVE AMERICAN NARRATIVE WRITING PROJECT
YOUR TASK:
 Write a realistic fictional story as a
character growing up or living in PreColumbian North America.
 Your story must include fiction and nonfictional components (facts that you’ve
learned about Native American culture).
 Your story must be in Narrative (story)
form.
 You must include a clear
beginning, middle, and end.
 You must include dialogue
 Stories will be graded for content,
style, sentence formation, usage, and
mechanics
Student Name:
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Native American Narrative Writing
Project
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Accuracy of
Facts (Content)
Contains fictional
and non-fictional
elements. All
supportive facts are
reported accurately.
Contains fictional
elements, but limited
non-fictional elements.
Almost all supportive
facts are reported
accurately.
Contains fictional
elements, but little or
no non-fictional
elements.
Supportive facts are
reported
inaccurately.
Contains little or no
non-fictional
elements. NO facts
are reported OR
most are inaccurately
reported.
Adding
Personality
(Style)
The writer seems to
be writing from
knowledge or
experience. The
author has taken the
ideas and made
them "their own."
The writer seems to be
drawing on knowledge
or experience, but
there is some lack of
ownership of the topic.
The writer relates
some of his own
knowledge or
experience, but it
adds nothing to the
discussion of the
topic.
The writer has not
tried to transform the
information in a
personal way. The
ideas and the way
they are expressed
seem to belong to
someone else.
Sentence
Structure
(Sentence
Formation)
All sentences are
Most sentences are
well-constructed with well-constructed with
varied structure.
varied structure.
Most sentences are
well-constructed but
have a similar
structure.
Sentences lack
structure and appear
incomplete or
rambling.
Grammar &
Spelling (Usage
Conventions)
Writer makes no
errors in grammar or
spelling that distract
the reader from the
content.
Writer makes 1-2
errors in grammar or
spelling that distract
the reader from the
content.
Writer makes 3-4
errors in grammar or
spelling that distract
the reader from the
content.
Writer makes more
than 4 errors in
grammar or spelling
that distract the
reader from the
content.
Capitalization &
Punctuation
(Mechanics
Conventions)
Writer makes no
errors in
capitalization or
punctuation, so the
paper is
exceptionally easy to
read.
Writer makes 1 or 2
errors in capitalization
or punctuation, but the
paper is still easy to
read.
Writer makes a few
errors in
capitalization and/or
punctuation that
catch the reader\'s
attention and
interrupt the flow.
Writer makes several
errors in
capitalization and/or
punctuation that
catch the reader's
attention and greatly
interrupt the flow.
Sequencing
(Organization)
Details are placed in
a logical order and
the way they are
presented effectively
keeps the interest of
the reader.
Details are placed in a
logical order, but the
way in which they are
presented/introduced
sometimes makes the
writing less interesting
Some details are not
in a logical or
expected order, and
this distracts the
reader.
Many details are not
in a logical or
expected order.
There is little sense
that the writing is
organized.
Neatness
The final draft of the
story is readable, clean,
neat and attractive. It is
free of erasures and
crossed-out words. It
The final draft of the
story is readable, neat
and attractive. It may
have one or two
The final draft of the
story is readable and
some of the pages
are attractive. It looks
The final draft is not
neat or attractive. It
looks like the student
just wanted to get it
CATEGORY
looks like the author
took great pride in it.
erasures, but they are
not distracting. It looks
like the author took
some pride in it.
like parts of it might done and didn't care
have been done in a what it looked like.
hurry.