Liew+Shan+Yuan

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Creative Writing Task
 * Civil Brawls Brought to an End**

Earlier this morning in a public place in Verona a brawl broke out between members of the Capulet and Montague households.

It first started with the two Capulet servants, Gregory and Sampson, when they unfortunately ran into two servants from the Montague household. Tensions rose when Sampson bite his thumb at Abram. Later, Benvolio Montague and Tybalt Capulet arrived at the scene. Benvolio claimed to have tried to make peace, but Tybalt sought to seize any opportunity to fight. Montague and Capulet themselves later arrived at the scene and in a few minutes the brawl had turned into a furious fight. “The fight was intense and dangerous, Tybalt tripped and nearly stabbed my son right in the back!” said one civilian spectator. “I don’t understand why those two houses don’t just make peace and be done with it. Why must they always disturb a beautiful day like this with their nonsense and quarrelling?” said one shopkeeper. The battle was brought to an end when Prince Escales arrived at the scene and claimed that the next person to disturb the peace of Verona will receive a death sentence. “These petty squabbles between the Capulet and Montague households are getting out of control! If I declare a strict punishment for their actions, hopefully it will bring an end to this feud.” Said the Prince. We don’t know for sure whether the Princes plan will work, but all we can do for the time being is wait and see.

LA CREATIVE WRITING RUBRIC

CONTENT
 * || 0.5 || 1 || 1.5 || 2 ||
 * **CONTENT** || Content unrelated to the prompt, doesn’t stay on topic. || Content unrelated to the prompt, stays on topic most of the time. || Content related to the prompt, stays on topic most of the time || Content related to the prompt, stays on topic. ||
 * **MECHANICS** || Too many errors in grammar, spelling, or punctuation to understand some parts. || Many errors in grammar, spelling, or punctuation || Minor errors in grammar, spelling, or punctuation || Minimal errors in grammar, spelling, or punctuation ||
 * **WORD CHOICE/LANGUAGE** || Very poor use of language; words and sentence structure makes story hard to understand. || Poor use of language; Little variation of sentence structure and words || Satisfactory use of language; some varied sentence structures and words || Good use of language; varied sentence structure and words ||
 * **INSIGHT** || Writing wasn’t related to the story || Writing shows almost no understanding of what happened || Writing shows little understanding of what happened || Writing shows understanding of what happened ||
 * **ORGANIZATION** || Many organizational issues, flows poorly, article not summarized in first paragraph. || Few organizational issues, flows poorly, article not summarized in first paragraph. || Few organizational issues, flows well, summary of news article in first paragraph || Well organized, flows well, summary of news article in first paragraph. ||