The Metamorphosis: OBITUARY
We have reached the end of The Metamorphosis and discovered that
Gregor has passed away. His family and friends don’t realize that he
has turned into the bug, therefore, do not realize that he died.
Please do him a favour and write an obituary for Gregor. The obituary
must include at least five (5) important facts about Gregor (life;
his thoughts about his life, job, family etc – see list below).
Please also include these five (5) facts on a separate piece of paper
with the page numbers (obviously an obituary would not include page
numbers but I need to know where you got your facts from). The
following is a break down of information than an obituary usually
contains. You may not find all of this information in The
Metamorphosis but it will help you to decide the facts that you need
to include in Gregor’s obituary.
Note: Obituary’s do not have to be sad
HAND THIS SHEET IN WITH YOUR OBITUARY – your rubric is on the back!
I have also attached a copy of Albus Dumbledore’s obituary
(headmaster in Harry Potter) written by Elias Dodge as a reference.
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NAME / ANNOUNCEMENT
Full name of the
deceased, (nickname)
o Age at death
o Residence (for example, the
name of the city) at death
o Day and date of death
o Place of death
o Cause of death
LIFE
o Date and place of birth
o Childhood: siblings, stories,
schools, friends
o Marriage(s): date of, place, 
name of spouse
o Education: school, college,
university etc.
o Designations, awards, and
other recognition
o Employment: jobs, activities,
stories, colleagues,
satisfactions, promotions,
union activities,
frustrations,
o Places of residence
o Hobbies, sports, interests,
activities etc.
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o
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o
o
Charitable, religious,
fraternal, political, and
other affiliations; positions
held
Achievements and
Disappointments
Unusual attributes, humour,
other stories
FAMILY
Survived by (and place of
residence):
 Spouse
 Children (in order of date
of birth, and their
spouses) and Grandchildren
 Parents and Grandparents
 Siblings (in order of date
of birth)
 Others, such as nephews,
nieces, cousins, in-laws
 Friends
 Pets (if appropriate)
o
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Predeceased by (and date of
death):
 Spouse
 Children (in order of date
of birth), Grandchildren
 Siblings (in order of date
of birth)
 Others, such as nephews,
nieces, cousins, in-laws
 Pets (if appropriate)
END
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o
Memorial funds established
Memorial donation
suggestions, including
addresses
Thank you to people, groups,
or institutions
Quotation or poem
Three words that sum up the
life
The Metamorphosis: OBITUARY RUBRIC
CATEGORY
Sequencing
Level 4
Details are
placed in a
logical order
and the way
they are
presented
effectively
keeps the
interest of
the reader.
Level 3
Level 2
Level 1
Total
Details are
Some details Many details
placed in a
are not in a are not in a
logical order, logical or
logical or
but the way in expected
expected
which they are order, and
order. There
presented/
this distracts is little
introduced
the reader.
sense that the
sometimes
writing is
makes the
organized.
writing less
interesting.
Grammar &
Writer makes Writer makes Writer makes a Writer makes
Spelling
no errors in almost no
few errors in many errors in
grammar or
errors in
grammar or
grammar or
spelling that grammar or
spelling that spelling that
distract the spelling that distract the distract the
reader from
distract the reader from
reader from
the content. reader from
the content. the content.
the content.
Capitalization Writer makes Writer makes 1 Writer makes a Writer makes
& Punctuation no errors in or 2 errors in few errors in several errors
capitalization capitalization capitalization in
or
or
and/or
capitalization
punctuation, punctuation, punctuation
and/or
so the paper but the paper that catch the punctuation
is
is still easy reader's
that catch the
exceptionally to read.
attention and reader's
easy to read.
interrupt the attention and
flow.
greatly
interrupt the
flow.
Information
included
Student
Student
included
included
complete and complete
(Sections:
thorough
information
Name,
information
from each
Announcement, from each
section.
Life, family, section.
Information
end)
Information is included is
all very
interesting.
interesting.
Important
Facts
Students
included
information
from four
sections OR
information
was not
complete from
each section.
Information
included is
somewhat
interesting.
Student did
not include
information
from three or
less sections
and/or
information
was not
complete.
Information
included does
not keep
readers
attention.
Five or more Five important Three to four Less then
important
topics are
important
three
facts are
addressed and topics are
important
addressed and most were
addressed OR topics are
all are
thoughtfully are not
addressed
thoughtfully chosen as most thoughtfully and/or are not
chosen by
are pertinent chosen as some thoughtfully
clearly
to the
of the topics chosen as the
pertaining to character
are not
topics are not
the character
pertinent to pertinent to
the character the character