Nitty Gritty Story Rough Draft Grade

After reading the rubric, I believe that my Nitty Gritty story deserves an 8 at this point. I believe this because first of all, my draft has no errors and all the words are spelled correctly. I feel like my ideas aren't fully connected which is an easy thing to clear up but as of now it isn't the very best I could do. My story meets the requirements of the prompt, and as for word choice, I feel like it is good, but I could defiantly spruce up the grammar in it. Everything is organized and my ideas are put together in order so that the story makes sense. Overall, as of right now I think I'd scrape and 8 but the story has a lot of room for improvement before I turn in the final draft.