Senior’s Progress
Your life is full of trials and tribulations already, and warning upcoming students about the traps,
temptations, and pitfalls of your senior year would certainly be merited. Of course, underclassmen
rarely take advice when they perceive it as such, and so the challenge is to present it in an entertaining,
yet easily understandable manner. Your assignment, therefore, is to write an allegory of your senior
year.
You are to create allegory which covers your senior year from beginning to end. You must include at
least five real life impediments and/or assets seniors must deal with and methods for surmounting the
negative and utilizing the positive, but they must be presented in metaphorical manner as befits the
allegorical story you are telling. This must be told as a narrative, cohesive story. You cannot present any
of the information in a literal manner, but it should be obvious what you are referring to.
Be creative—don’t simply regurgitate the journey of Bunyan’s pilgrims.
Follow the regular writing guidelines (i.e., MLA format). You will upload this story via Blackboard in a
link in the 17th Century section of the site. Name your document (first initial)(Last Name)_allegory.***
This is worth 50 pts. It is due by midnight on Tuesday, January 3, 2012.
CATEGORY 4 3 2 1
Focus on Assigned The entire story is related to Most of the story is related Some of the story is No attempt has been
Topic 15 pts the assigned topic and to the assigned topic. The related to the assigned made to relate the story
allows the reader to story wanders off at one topic, but a reader does to the assigned topic.
understand much more point, but the reader can not learn much about
about the topic. still learn something about the topic.
the topic.
Problem/Conflict It is very easy for the reader It is fairly easy for the It is fairly easy for the It is not clear what
10 pts to understand the problem reader to understand the reader to understand problem the main
the main characters face and problem the main the problem the main characters face.
why it is a problem. characters face and why it characters face but it is
is a problem. not clear why it is a
problem.
Creativity The story contains many The story contains a few The story contains a There is little evidence
10 pts creative details and/or creative details and/or few creative details of creativity in the story.
descriptions that contribute descriptions that contribute and/or descriptions, but The author does not
to the reader's enjoyment. to the reader's enjoyment. they distract from the seem to have used much
The author has really used The author has used his story. The author has imagination.
his imagination. imagination. tried to use his
imagination.
Requirements All of the written Almost all (about 90%) the Most (about 75%) of Many requirements were
10 pts requirements were met. written requirements were the written not met.
met. requirements were met,
but several were not.
Grammar There are no spelling or There is one spelling or There are 2-3 spelling The final draft has more
& Mechanics punctuation errors in the punctuation error in the and punctuation errors than 3 spelling and
5 pts final draft. Character and final draft. in the final draft. punctuation errors.
place names that the author
invented are spelled
consistently throughout.