Refer to the three rubrics on this page to guide your work.

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Product

A
  • Includes thorough, interesting, well-researched answers to the questions posed in the process.
    • Historical context/pressures on authors
    • Which piece you are protesting, why you chose that piece (controversy)
    • Which piece you are adding, and why (its strengths and place within the curriculum and historical context)
  • Uses various, appropriate imagery to support and illustrate opinions
  • Content is persuasive and on-topic
  • Product is neat
C
  • Includes researched answers to the questions posed in the process.
  • Uses appropriate imagery to support and illustrate opinions
  • Content is on-topic
  • Product is neat
F
  • Includes unresearched or incomplete answers to the questions posed in the process.
  • Uses inappropriate imagery to support and illustrate opinions (or lacks imagery entirely)
  • Content gets off-topic
  • Product is not neat

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Presentation

A
  • Each group member contributes significantly to the presentation
  • Presentation provides substantive, interesting answers to the questions posed in the process.
  • Group members use appropriate poise (posture, positioning, confidence) and clarity (volume, articulation, no gum) in presenting
  • Presentation is persuasive and interesting
C
  • Each group member contributes to the presentation
  • Presentation provides interesting answers to the questions posed in the process.
  • Group members use mostly appropriate poise and clarity in presenting
  • Presentation is mostly persuasive and interesting
F
  • Not all group members make a contribution to the presentation
  • Presentation provides inadequate, insubstantial answers to the questions posed in the 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
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
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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