Name: ___________________________________

Somma- ELA

 Final copies of your poem are due on Monday, September 11.

 Be sure poems are either typed, or written neatly. Be creative and add color as they will be hung up
in the classroom!

 Poems will be presented in class. If you do not have a final copy of your poem on Monday, a phone
call home will be made.

RUBRIC FOR POETRY

CATEGORY Excellent - 4 Good - 3 Satisfactory - 2 Needs Improvement - 1

THE Student devoted a lot Student devoted Student devoted Student devoted little
WRITING of time and effort to adequate time and effort some time and effort time and effort to the
PROCESS / the writing process and to the writing process to the writing writing process. It
EFFORT worked hard to make and worked to get the process but was not appears that the student
the poem a good read. job done. The poem may very thorough. Does does not care about the
The poem has no have one or two errors. enough to get by. assignment. The poem
errors. There are several has many errors.
errors.
NEATNESS The final draft of the The final draft of the The final draft of the The final draft is not
poem is readable, poem is readable, neat poem is readable and neat or attractive. It
clean, neat and and attractive. It looks some of the pages looks like the student
attractive. It looks like like the author took are attractive. It just wanted to get it done
the author took great some pride in it. looks like parts of it and didn’t care what it
pride in it. might have been looked like.
done in a hurry.
STYLE The poem is written The poem is written with The poem is written The poem lacks style
with a great sense of a defined with style. somewhat with style. and the thoughts did not
style. The poem has Thoughts are clear to Thoughts are clear to come out clearly on
been well thought out read and understandable. a degree. paper.
and makes sense to the
reader.

TOTAL SCORE: