GRADE 7- 2ND QUARTER PROJECT

Performance Task
A Colorful Short Story

Goal:
• Your task is to create a new colorful short story.
Role:
• You are a promising young writer.
• You have been tasked by a publishing company to create a colorful short story, which
will be presented on their foundation day.
Audience:
• The target audience is the publishing company’s board of directors and other
prominent authors, including very important guests.
Situation:
• The challenge involves coming up with a colorful short story and making it as
interesting and unique as possible.
Product/Performance and Purpose:
• You will create a colorful short story using the following guidelines:
1. Write a short story about a topic of your own choice and with a theme that expresses a view
about life you can relate with.
2. Make sure that your story has a minimum of 50 phrases, 50 clauses (dependent), and 50
sentences.
a. Highlight the phrases, clauses, and sentences by coloring them.
b. Color all the phrases green, clauses red, sentences blue, and punctuations black.
3. Your story must contain a minimum of 5,000 words.
4. The elements of a narrative story must be evident.
5. Type your story on short bond paper, 0.5 margins, font style; century gothic, size font 12,
double-spaced and justify alignment.
6. Submit your output on or before January 31, 2022, to google drive (in your own folder) and
name it properly (2nd Quarter Project).
 Standards and criteria for success: Your work will be judged by the following rubric:
Beginning Developing Accomplished
CRITERIA Score
(0-12 points) (13-16 points) (17-20 points)
• Without a clear • The story begins • The story begins
beginning, the with most of the with all necessary
retelling lacks necessary information about
several necessary information about the setting, the hero,
information about the setting, the hero, and the hero’s quest
Content the setting, the hero, and the hero’s quest • Clearly gives all
and the hero’s quest. • Give most of the important details
• Without a clear important details about the results of
detail about the about the results of the hero’s quest and
result of hero’s quest the hero’s quest and about the ending.
and about the about the ending.
ending.
The paragraph The paragraph is The paragraph is
contains shifts in written mostly in the written in the third
Language and person and the third person and the person and in
Point of View language and tone language and tone formal in language
are mostly not are mostly formal. and tone.
formal.
There are several There are few errors There are no errors
Convention errors in grammar, in grammar, in grammar,
punctuation, or punctuations, or punctuation, or
spelling. spellings. spelling
The story contains The story contains The story contains
few creative details few creative details many creative
or distractions, but or descriptions that details and/or
Creativity
they distract from contribute to the descriptions that
the story. reader’s enjoyment. contribute to the
reader’s enjoyment.
Colored phrases
0-19 phrases 20-45 phrases 46-50 phrases
used
Colored clauses
0-19 clauses 20-45 clauses 46-50 clauses
used
Colored
0-19 sentences 20-45 sentences 46-50 sentences
sentences used
Elements of a
Incomplete elements All elements present
short story
Punctuality More than 1 day late 1 day late On time
Total Score: