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This is our wiki page for our preterite/imperfect project.

We will be writing a story, a couple sentences at a time, using the imperfect and preterite tenses together. This will help you understand how these two tenses differ and will help you see the development of a story. After we finish this wiki project, you will be writing your own story using the preterite and imperfect.

Here is the topic sentence for our wiki:

Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí.

This is actually a complete short story written by Monterroso, but we will be adding to the story to see how it develops. Here you can see that he used both the preterite and imperfect tenses. Here is a rubric that I will discuss in further detail with you.

Wiki Rubric

	Excellent (5-4)	Good (3-2)	Needs Work (1-0)
Grammar use	Used all tenses correctly or missed 1 tense	Missed 2 tense usages	Missed all tense usage
Vocab use	Used all vocab correctly	Used most vocab correctly	Vocab did not pertain to story
Coherence	All sentences developed the story	Most sentences developed the story	None or only 1 sentence developed the story
Adherence to instructions	Wrote 2-3 sentences. At least one includes both pret/imp. tenses	Wrote 1 sentence that included both pret/imp. tenses	Wrote 1 or fewer sentences that did not include both tenses.