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Spoken Word Poetry Evaluation Rubric

The document provides rubrics for evaluating spoken word poetry across four criteria: message/content, delivery and performance, originality/creativity, and overall impact. For each criterion, point ranges are provided to assess the poetry from excellent (39-40 points) to poor (1-34 points). The highest scores are for poetry that fully reflects a clear theme, uses supportive ideas and original language, and is well-delivered with strong performance skills. Lower scores are for poetry that lacks reflection, has unclear ideas, and poor performance.

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Spoken Word Poetry Evaluation Rubric

The document provides rubrics for evaluating spoken word poetry across four criteria: message/content, delivery and performance, originality/creativity, and overall impact. For each criterion, point ranges are provided to assess the poetry from excellent (39-40 points) to poor (1-34 points). The highest scores are for poetry that fully reflects a clear theme, uses supportive ideas and original language, and is well-delivered with strong performance skills. Lower scores are for poetry that lacks reflection, has unclear ideas, and poor performance.

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CRITERIA

39-40 points 37-38 points 35-36 points 1- 34 points


Entire poem shows Poem shows some Poem is basic and Theme is unclear.
reflection and evidence of the shows very little Supportive ideas are
MESSAGE/ expression of a author's reflections on reflection on a missing or unclear
CONTENT particular theme. a particular theme. theme. Supportive
Supportive ideas are Supportive ideas are ideas are mostly
relevant &original mostly relevant & irrelevant &
throughout. Poem gives original. Parts of the unoriginal. The
real insight into the poem might be off- poet's feelings are
writer's character and topic but most of the not revealed
point of view. poem expresses some
depth and insight
29-30 points 27-28 points 25-24 points 1-23 points
Delivery and A combination of A combination of Inconsistent use of Lack of eye contact,
performance appropriate and appropriate eye eye contact, clarity clarity and projection
effective eye contact, contact, clarity, and and projection of of voice, tone and
posture, clarity of projection of voice, voice, tone and pace make the
expression, projection tone and pace are used pace interrupt the reading difficulty to
of voice, tone and but without a smooth flow of the follow.
pacing significantly cohesiveness reading.
enhance the speakers’
words
18-20 points 16-17 points 14-15 points 1-13 points
Originality/Creati All lines and stanzas are Most Lines and stanzas Lines and stanzas The organization of
vity carefully chosen to are carefully chosen to do not effectively the lines or stanzas is
reinforce rhythm. The reinforce rhythm. The reinforce rhythm. not apparent
poem is organized in a poem is organized in a Most of the poem
way that naturally lends way that lends itself to is ineffectively
itself to spoken word. the spoken word organized
9-10 points 7-8 points 5-6 points 1-4 points

Overall Impact Presence, voice, Presence, voice, Presence, voice, Presence, voice,
articulation, dramatic articulation, dramatic articulation, articulation, dramatic
appropriateness, and appropriateness, and dramatic appropriateness, and
evidence of evidence of appropriateness, evidence of
understanding all seem understanding all seem and evidence of understanding all
on target and unified to slightly not in target understanding all seem in no
breathe life into the and unified to breathe seem in target but connection and
piece life into the piece not unified and organization to
connected to breathe life into
breathe life into piece.
the piece
SPOKEN WORD POETRY RUBRICS

Total Score: __________


Judges Comments: _______________________________________________

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