Fairytale Writing Assignment

First Draft Due: Monday, October 24th

Final Draft Due: Monday, October 31st
Introduction: We have been reading and learning about fairytales over the past few weeks. We have also
been practicing your writing skills! Now its your turn to create your own fairytale. Your fairytale can be
serious or humorous, but should contain many of the elements we have learnt are common to fairytales,
including a moral. The moral of your fairytale should illustrate something that is important to you or our
society.
Requirements for your fairytale:
Your fairytale must be/include:
At least 2 pages double-spaced, and no longer than 6 pages double-spaced.
Use an easy to read, size 12 font. You can never go wrong with Times New Roman.
A title.
A beginning, middle and end. It would be helpful to plan out the plot of your fairytale before you start
writing.
Classic fairytale elements (you are not expected to include all elements of fairytales, but the ones you
must include are good vs. evil, magic, and a moral.)
Use of proper grammar and spelling.
Your first draft can be either typed or hand-written. On the day that it is due, we will do peer-editing.
Any class time next week after the unit test will be used to write the final copy of your fairytales.
Your final copy can be typed, otherwise you must produce a neatly printed final copy.
Note: I am here to help you with anything and everything, except actually writing the fairytale for you.
You can brainstorm with me, run ideas by me and come to me for help with spelling and grammar (I will
check over your rough draft for you if you ask, so try and take advantage of that!)

Rubric
Criteria

Excellent (10)

Content Knowledge Student

demonstrates full
knowledge of
fairytales and
elaborates
creatively.
The moral
presented is
thoughtful and
sound.
Writing engages
the readers
interest.

Proficient (8)
Student
demonstrates
partial knowledge
of fairytales, and
demonstrates
creativeness.
The moral
presented is
appropriate/
thoughtful.
Writing engages
the readers
interest to a
degree.

Adequate (6)

Limited (4)

Student
Student is unable
demonstrates
to demonstrate
partial knowledge
knowledge of
of fairytales, and
fairytales in their
demonstrates basic
writing.
concepts in
The moral is
writing.
absent/does not
correlate with the
The moral
presented is
story.
relevant, but
Writing is not
general.
engaging.
Writing is
straightforward.

Organization

Sentence Structure

The story is
presented in a
logical, engaging
sequence that the
reader can easily
follow.

The story is
presented in a
logical sequence
which the reader
can follow.

The story is
presented in a way
that is difficult to
follow, because
tale jumps around.

The story is
presented in a way
that is difficult to
follow because it
does not have a
logical sequence.

Sentence structure
is consistently
controlled.
Sentence type and
sentence length are
almost always
effective and
varied.
Sentence
beginnings are
often varied
Uses paragraphs,
appropriately, to
organize text.

Sentence structure Sentence structure

is usually
is generally
controlled.
controlled, but
lapses may
Sentence type and
sentence length are
occasionally
usually effective
impede meaning.
and varied.
Sentence type and
sentence length are
Sentence
beginnings are
sometimes
usually varied.
effective and/or
varied.
Uses paragraphs,
appropriately, to
Some variety of
organize text.
sentence
beginnings is
evident.
Uses paragraph
structure to
provide basic
organization.

Sentences lack
structure.
Sentence length
and effectiveness
have limited
variety.
The variety of
sentence
beginnings is
limited.
The use of
paragraphs is
limited, providing
little organization.

Vocabulary

Words and
Words and
Words and
Words and
expressions are
expressions are
expressions are
expressions are not
almost always
often used
generally used
often used
accurately
accurately.
appropriately.
appropriately.
Specific words and Specific words and General words and General words and
expressions show
expressions show
expressions are
expressions do not
complete evidence
some evidence of
used adequately to
clarify meaning.
of careful selection
careful selection
clarify meaning.
The voice/tone
and awareness of
and some
created by the
The voice/tone
connotative effect.
awareness of
created by the
student is not
connotative effect.
student is
discernible/
The voice/tone
created by the
discernible but
distinct.
The voice/tone
student is distinct
created by the
may be
and creative.
student is distinct.
inconsistent or
uneven.

Conventions

The quality of the

writing is
sustained because
it contains only
minor convention
errors.
Any errors that are
present never
reduce clarity or
interrupt the flow
of the response.

The quality of the The quality of the

writing is
writing is
sustained because
maintained
it contains only
through generally
minor convention
correct use of
errors.
conventions.
Any errors that are Errors that are
present rarely
present
reduce clarity and
occasionally
seldom interrupt
reduce the clarity
the flow of the
and sometimes
response.
interrupt the flow
of the response.

The quality of the

writing is not
maintained due to
the incorrect use of
conventions.
Errors that are
present often
reduce the clarity
and interrupt the
flow of the
response.

TOTAL __/50