American Poetry Anthology

 

CATEGORY

Accomplished

Developing

Beginning

Insufficient

Original Poems

Poems are exceptional and demonstrate a willingness to actively engage poetry as a means of communicating the human condition.

Poems show effort to use poetry as a means of communicating the human condition.

Poems show minimal effort to communicate the human condition.

Poems show little to no effort.

Collected Poems

The collection is well chosen to reflect the insights and thoughtfulness of the student.

The collection shows some insight and evidence of involvement with the poetry.

The collection shows little evidence of involvement with the poetry.

The collection is incomplete and/or chosen for its brevity.

Connections

Evidence of exceptional thoughtfulness in relating to the collected poems. Connections are deep and insightful.

Makes meaningful connections to the collected poems and shows insight.

Some evidence of meaningful connections to the collected poems, but on an inconsistent level.

Insufficient effort with little to no connections to the collected poems.

Completeness

All details of the project were completed with excellence.

All but one of the minor details of the project was completed.

Most of the details of the project were completed.

Details of the project were not completed.