Best Sports Day Ever Piece

Due dates:

Fully developed first draft – April 7 (beginning of the period)
Revised and polished final draft – April 13 (beginning of the period)

Major Grade

Assignment:

Write a personal narrative about your best day in sports. It can be about a day you played, watched or somehow experienced a sporting event.  The sporting experience need not be central to your story, but it needs to be a part of the story.

Criteria:

Your story should be rich in concrete detail, imagery and appeals to the five senses. The better you recreate all of the sights, sounds and sensations of your story the better.

Your story should begin in a captivating way and end with a conclusion that resonates with the reader, giving them something upon which to reflect or ponder before leaving your story.

Your story should be polished, free of careless, avoidable spelling, grammar and punctuation errors.  I strongly recommend reading it out loud to someone else or even just to yourself so that you can hear how your writing sounds to others.

Your story should be told in your voice. The style should be informal and the tone conversational and colloquial.  Whenever you write a personal narrative, you aren’t just trying to convince the reader that your story is worth reading. You are convincing them that you are interesting and worth “listening” to.

Your story should be on time.  I will deduct two points per school day that your story is past the assigned deadline of April 7.  

The fully developed draft is due April 7.  The revised draft is due April 13.

Please print your submission before coming to class so we can do a peer edit as part of the revision process.

The rubric for the polished draft is below:

Topic: Write a piece describing your best sports day ever.

STORYLINE/NARRATIVE 5 6 7 8 9 10
VIVID IMAGERY/DETAILS 5 6 7 8 9 10
GRAMMAR/STYLE/PUNCTUATION 5 6 7 8 9 10
VOICE                         5 6 7 8 9 10
DEVELOPMENT/APPROPRIATE LENGTH 5 6 7 8 9 10