Writing task: In pairs, students in a second year French class were asked to illustrate and write a comic strip for a fable they had read in class.

Evaluation

Student Responses

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1. Use a holistic rubric to evaluate the student work. A holistic rubric allows the teacher and the students to determine the quality of the work. It reflects the lesson’s purpose (to use written and visual communication to write a fable) communicative function (imaginative—expanding ideas suggested by reading a fable), and language structures (present tense verb conjugations and subject/verb agreement).
2. Make a checklist of non-negotiables for this task that you want to give to students before designing a rubric to rate the task.

Fables through Comics - Holistic Rubric*

The content of the comic accurately reflects the content of the fable in its correct sequence. Present tense formation, subject/verb agreement, and gender and number agreement are consistently accurate.

Most of the content of the fable is reflected accurately in the comic strip with correct or nearly correct sequence of events. The present tense, subject/verb agreement, and gender and number agreement are nearly always accurate, though a few errors may appear.

While some of the content of the fable is reflected in the comic strip, -not all events are included and some sequencing is incorrect. Some errors appear in use of the present tense, subject/verb agreement and gender and number agreement.

Significant portions of the fable are missing in the comic strip and sequencing is incorrect and confusing. Consistent errors appear in the use of the present tense, subject/verb agreement and gender, and number agreement.