We have studied the life of Eleanor Roosevelt in class this month.  You know a great deal about her life, challenges and successes.  Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." 

Your assignment is to write a 2 page narrative about a time when you did something you thought you could not do. 

This essay must:

•	Include an introduction using Eleanor Roosevelt’s famous quote.
•	Include specific details about this life experience.  You want your reader to be INSPIRED by your story!  This inspiration comes from detailed descriptions of this event and the resulting success you have had accomplishing what you thought you could not do.
•	Conclude your essay with a paragraph on how this new knowledge has changed or impacted you.

*Please use the attached rubric to guide you in your writing.

	Score of 4	Score of 3	Score of 2	Score of 1	
Reading/Research	The Writing:
•	Effectively integrates the required quotation
	The Writing:
•	Uses the required quotation	The Writing: 
•	Incorrectly uses the required quotation
	The Writing:
•	Does not use the required quotation 	
Development	The Writing:
•	Skillfully develops real experiences or events using descriptive details
•	Skillfully uses narrative techniques (dialogue, pacing, and description) to develop experiences and events.
•	Skillfully uses precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events	The Writing:
•	Develops real experiences and events using descriptive details
•	Uses narrative techniques (dialogue, pacing, and description) to develop experiences and events.
•	Uses precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events
	The Writing:
•	Develops real experiences and events using insufficient descriptive details
•	Inconsistently uses narrative techniques (dialogue, pacing, and description) to develop experiences and events.
•	Inconsistently uses precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events
	The Writing:
•	Develops real experiences or events using little or no descriptive detail
•	Uses few, if any, narrative techniques (dialogue, pacing, and description) to develop experiences and events.
•	Uses few, if any, precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey experiences and events.	
Organization	The Writing:
•	Skillfully engages the reader by establishing a context and a point of view
•	Skillfully organizes an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
•	Skillfully uses a variety of transition words, phrases, and/or clauses to convey sequence and shifts from one time frame or setting to another
•	Skillfully provides a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.	The Writing:
•	Engages the reader by establishing a context and a point of view
•	Organizes an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
•	Uses a variety of transition words, phrases, and/or clauses to convey sequence and shifts from one time frame or setting to another
•	Provides a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events	The Writing:
•	Inconsistently engages the reader by establishing a context and a point of view
•	Inconsistently organizes an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
•	Inconsistently uses a variety of transition words, phrases, and/or clauses to convey sequence and shifts from one time frame or setting to another
•	Provides a conclusion that ineffectively follows from the narrated experiences or events.	The Writing:
•	Does not engage and orient the reader by ineffectively establishing a context and a point of view.
•	Does not organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
•	Uses few, if any, transition words, phrases, and/or clauses to convey shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
•	May lack a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.	
http://www.doe.k12.de.us/aab/English_Language_Arts/ELA_docs_folder/Gr7_InfoExp_6-12.pdf