Refer to the three rubrics on this page to guide your work.
Product
| A |
- Includes thorough, interesting, well-researched articles about EVENTS.
- Content is on topic
- Style is appropriate for news writing
- Illustrates historical context
- Includes new information that might surprise your readers
- Articles are appropriate length (200-300 words).
- Writing is well-edited with almost no mistakes in conventions
- Product is appropriate, pleasing to the eye, and easy to read
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| C |
- Like “A” with a handful of minor flaws
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| F |
- Includes unresearched or incomplete articles
- Uses inappropriate imagery or writing
- Off-topic
- Product is not neat
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Presentation
| A |
- Each group member contributes significantly to the presentation
- Presentation provides substantive, interesting information about product and process
- Group members use appropriate poise (posture, positioning, confidence) and clarity (volume, articulation, no gum) in presenting
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| C |
- Each group member contributes to the presentation
- Presentation provides interesting information about product and process
- Group members use mostly appropriate poise and clarity in presenting
- Presentation is mostly persuasive and interesting
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| F |
- Not all group members make a contribution to the presentation
- Presentation provides inadequate, insubstantial information about product and process
- Group members’ poise and clarity is lacking or inappropriate
- Presentation is bland or offensive
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Collaboration (individual grade)
| A |
- Contributes positively throughout the activity to group and class progress
- Stays on-task throughout individual and group work
- Leads group effort to near completion of his/her individual role
- Takes share of ownership of group challenges and successes
- Appropriately demonstrates interest in other groups’ presentations
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| C |
- Contributes positively throughout the activity to group and class progress
- Mostly on-task throughout individual and group work
- Leads group effort to near completion of his/her individual role
- Politely attends to other groups’ presentations
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| F |
- Contributes negatively to group or class, detracting from progress
- Has difficulty staying on-task during individual and group work
- His/her individual role is incomplete or completed by groupmate
- Avoids share of ownership of group challenges and successes
- Demonstrates disinterest in other groups’ presentations
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Go to the conclusion.
