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Write a personal narrative that helps readers understand some aspect of who you are. In your essay, include one or more experiences that helped you realize this thing about yourself.
Turn it in!
When you are satisfied that your final draft meets all of this lesson’s requirements, submit it to your teacher. Your work on this assignment will be graded using the rubric below.
| Superior |
Average |
Poor |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | ||
| Your paragraph introduces a time in your life when you learned something new about yourself. It suggests the change or insight you experienced. | Your essay introduces a time in your life when you learned something new about yourself. However, the first paragraph needs to provide a hint to the insight you had. | Your first paragraph mentions an experience, but it doesn’t indicate that you learned something from it. |
| Body of Essay | ||
| Your middle paragraphs describe the experience that led to your insight. Your account of events has a clear beginning, middle, and end. It includes details that help the reader picture the experience. | Your middle paragraphs describe the experience that led to your insight. However, the order of events is not clear or not complete. Your paragraphs need more engaging details. | Your account of your experience is difficult to follow. The reader needs a clearer picture of what happened, and in what order. Important details have been left out. |
| Final Paragraph | ||
| Your final paragraph clearly states what you learned about yourself and how this insight affected you. | Your final paragraph states what you learned but does not explain the effect of this insight. | Your final paragraph suggests what you learned about yourself but does not state the insight clearly or explain how it affected you. |
