Title: Top-Ten List Assignment
Course: BC - English 7 - 2.0.0.0 > Section: Unit 1: Course Intro and Creative Writing

Using the prompts below to get your creativity flowing, you will create a top-ten list about yourself. The list can be serious or silly, but your reader should be able to learn something about who you are from the list.

You do not have to have complete sentences for every list item, but each item should make sense.

Here are some prompts to get you started:

- Top ten things my dog thinks are cool about me
- Top ten things I plan to do when I get my driver’s license
- Top ten titles for novels I would like to write one day
- Top ten reasons I might need a hug at the end of a day
- Top ten things I might get sent to the principal’s office for
- Top ten ways I’ve ruined my family’s reunion photos
- Top ten things I would do to perform on Canada’s Got Talent
- Top ten reasons I need a vacation
- Top ten excuses for why I cannot do chores today
- Top ten people or animals I do not want to be stuck in an elevator with

Rubric

 | Insufficient Evidence | Emerging | Developing | Proficient | Extending
 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
Language | There is too little content to adequately assess my proficiency. I need to resubmit this assignment. | The language I use in my top-ten shows that I am learning how to write with humour and/or emotion and detail. I may need help with deliberate word choice. | The language I use in my top-ten list is purposeful, with some use of humour and/or emotion and detail. Deliberate word choice is evident. | The language I use in my top-ten list is effective, with appropriate use of humour and/or emotion and detail. My word choice conveys my message effectively. | The language I use in my top-ten list is skillful, with creative and strong use of humour and/or emotion and detail. My word choice conveys my message very effectively.