NAME: ________________________________________ GRADE & STRAND: ____________________

CREATIVE WRITING

FIRST QUARTER ASSESSMENT

TASK: Make or compose your own poem with 5 stanzas, 4 lines on each stanza.

GENRE: Love or Romance

FORM OF POETRY: Free Verse (no rhyming scheme needed)

TAKE-NOTE: BE CREATIVE!

IMPORTANT REMINDER: DO NOT COPY FROM THE INTERNET OR ELSE MARK ZERO!
FREE VERSE POEM RUBRIC
  Level Four Level Three Level Two Level One
4 pts 3 pts 2 pts 1 pts
Meaning and Level Four Level Three Level Two Level One
Originality
Poems is creative and Poem is thoughtful and The poem is creative, Poem appears to be
original. It is evident that the creative. A couple of phrases but appears to be thoughtless or rushed.
poet put thought into their or ideas may be revisited, rushed. This is evident in Work is very repetitive,
words and innovatively but the overall product is the poet's redundancy or and ideas are impersonal
conveyed their ideas and carefully written. use of cliches. or unoriginal.
emotions.
Form Level Four Level Three Level Two Level One

Poem is complete and follows Poem is mostly written in the Poem is somewhat Poem is not written in the
its intended form. proper forms. written in the proper proper forms, ultimately
forms, while others stray diminishing the poetic
significantly or are value of the writer's
written as prose. collection.
Grammar Level Four Level Three Level Two Level One

Proper use of modern English
spelling and grammar is
employed consistently
throughout the poem.
Punctuation is utilized when
necessary.
Attractiveness Level Four
A couple of spelling or
grammar mistakes are
evident, but do not diminish
the meaning of the poem.
Punctuation is utilized when
necessary.
Level Three
The poet's intended There are numerous
meaning is muddled by spelling or grammar
several spelling or errors, making the poem
grammar errors. difficult to understand.
Punctuation may be Puncutation is used
misused. incorrectly.
Level Two Level One

The poem is exceptionally The poem is attractive in The poem is acceptably The poem is distractingly
attractive in terms of design, terms of design, layout and attractive though it may messy or very poorly
layout and neatness. neatness. be a bit messy designed.

WRITE YOUR POEM AT THE BACK OF THIS BONDPAPER. NO ERASURE, IT SHOULD BE NEAT &
CLEAN.

Note: Practice health protocols at all times.

Prepared by: Tchr. Rexon C. Dunque