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Witten English 11

RAFT
Role. Audience. Format. Topic.
This project asks you to think about The Secret Life of Bees in a critical and creative way. In the chart below, each row is a project prompt. Each project prompt requires you to become someone or something and addressing a certain person or group in a specific way about a certain thing. These prompts are not straightforward and are not topics that you can find answers to directly in the text. Use your knowledge and understanding of the characters, the plot, and the novel in general to become this prompt. Use the novel as your guide to lead you in the right direction in creating your projects, however, be just thatCREATIVE!

ROLE
Lily

AUDIENCE
Her mother

FORMAT
Letter

TOPIC
Reflecting on her time and experiences with the Boatwright Sisters What she wants Lily to know about her, her life, and her feelings about Lily growing up without her. Finding Lily and Rosaleen after they have ran away Zach and his friends arrests after the altercation with the several white men How it is possible to be motherless or queenless and still live a successful, meaningful life

Deborah

August

Photo + Letter

T. Ray

South Carolinians

Lost Poster

Reporter

American Citizens

Formal Newspaper Article

Lily

Queen Bee

Journal

I can produce writings that are clear and coherent. I can also produce writings that are appropriate to the style, task, purpose, and audience stated!

RAFT RUBRIC
3 2 1 0

Writing Conventions

Displays a strong understanding of writing conventions with 0-1 spelling and/ or grammatical errors not used for creative reasons that are noted Demonstrates clear understanding of the role assigned. Written using proper context utilizes evidence from the text while creatively making it your own.

Has 2-3 spelling and/or grammatical errors, outside of creativity reasons that have been noted

Has 4-5 spelling and/or grammatical errors, outside of creativity reasons that have been noted

More than 5 spelling and/or grammatical errors outside of creativity reasons that have been noted.

Role

Demonstrates understanding of the role assigned. Written with proper context and uses evidence, but there are some areas that are unclear.

The role has moments of clarity, but is mostly unclear. Uses evidence from the text, but takes direct quotes and doesnt attempt to use them creatively. Audience is somewhat clear but the writing doesnt address the selected audience.

The role is unclear. Doesnt utilize evidence from the text.

Audience

Audience is made clear and writing stays connected to this audience throughout.

The audience is made clear, but there are moments where writing doesnt address selected audience. The format generally sticks to the role and the audience assigned, but may sometimes change. The format is used in an original and creative way, while sticking to the assigned prompt.

The audience is not clear and/or doesnt follow the selected prompt. Writing does not match the desired audience. The format isnt consistent throughout. Addresses wrong role or audience and doesnt show attempts of creativity or originality. Format does not fit the prompt. The topic is unclear or not the assigned topic. It doesnt follow the assigned format.

Format

The format matches the role and the audience assigned. The format is used in an original and creative way, while sticking to the assigned prompt.

The format sticks to the prompt, but doesnt follow the assigned role and audience. Clear attempts to be creative with the format, but may cause portions of the format to not fit the prompt The topic is somewhat unclear in parts of the response and may require further explanation. Follows the assigned format.

Topic

The topic is presented clearly and effectively, while following the assigned format.

The topic is presented clearly and effectively, while not completely following the assigned format.