Here you will find the grading rules and requirements for Creative Composition. Make sure you understand what you will be graded on because writing can be very subjective.

Creative Composition Portfolio: Fulfilling Academic Assignments Creatively

 Grading Rules: 

Portfolio Assessment 35%

Workshop Piece Critiques (participate) / work  30%

Writer's Journal / work / weekly Writing Center 10%

Market Submission and letters  15%

Final (timed creative response) 10% 

The portfolio is to be 25 pages in length. You may choose 8 of the 10 papers. An English teacher will grade the portfolio based on how you well you fulfill the assignments. I will also grade it based on completeness and how well you took advice (Writing Center for all/ workshop). You must bring in one workshop piece for the class to read and discuss. These two pieces do not have to go to the writing center, but you must make changes based on comments from class. You are also responsible for making comments on the papers of each student who brings in a workshop piece. Be prepared to defend your paper as much as take advice.  The writer’s journal must be written in daily, and will be read from at least once a week. Some grammar and writing practice activities will be in the journals. You will be responsible for submitting to markets, and you will submit your papers for five markets.

The final will be a high-pressure, no-holds-barred, winner-take-all, write-off. Grades are up for grabs, as are reputations.  

Student Learning Outcomes 

·         To demonstrate skills in writing dialogue, setting, characters, plot, theme, style, and descriptions.

·         To exhibit the ability to write using appropriate Ideas, Organization, Voice, Sentence Fluency, Word Choice, Conventions, and Presentation.

·         To produce short pieces of work that emulate the styles and genres used by others.

·         To express creativity within defined boundaries and with discipline and structure and to evaluate and analyze the reasons for these boundaries.

 ·         To demonstrate the ability to redraft and revise their own creative work in an increasingly sophisticated manner.

• To present and comment critically and reflectively on their own work, as well as the work of others, analyzing and evaluating strengths and weaknesses.