Excellent	Good	Average	Weak
Creative presence	Clean, colorful, detailed and descriptive, fills all parts of the page with multiple elements	Clean, colorful, detailed and descriptive, uses multiple elements to illustrate stanza	Pretty good, may not fill the page or be very detailed with elements from the poem	Poor presence. Is not colorful; does not fill the page with multiple elements to represent the poem.
Appropriateness of Creativity	Well embodies the poem; everything on the page illuminates the poem’s meaning	Elements on the page enhance the interpretation; embodies the poem	Minimal distracting elements	Significant distracting elements; too many elements on the page that do not relate to the interpretation of the poem.
Level of difficulty	Contains multiple elements of very challenging content, language and length	Contains multiple elements of challenging content, language and/or length	Some challenging content, language or length	Simple content, language, length
Evidence of understanding	Interprets poem very well for audience; nuanced	Well communicates meaning of poem	Satisfactorily communicates meaning of poem	Obscures meaning of poem
Overall performance	Very strong, compelling creation	Successful, enjoyable creation	Sufficient creation, nothing notable	Very weak creation; does disservice to poem