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News of Me: An Autobiographical Newspaper News of Me: An Autobiographical Newspaper Create an autobiographical newspaper including the following elements: a creative name and motto for your newspaper, one picture with caption, headlines and by lines (all 3 articles), your birth article, a personal activity (sport/talent/past time) article, and a free choice personal article Rubric Code: DX6C38A By mont1real Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Assignment Grade Levels: 6-8

News of Me!
	Excellent 5 pts	Good 4 pts	Fair 3 pts	Poor 2 pts
Newspaper Header Info 2 % Use the Printing Press template #5 at: www.readwritethink.org	Excellent Clear, clever theme, spelled and capitalized correctly, and dated correctly	Good Theme is evident, some spelling or capitalization errors, dated correctly	Fair Theme is barely clear, spelling and capitalization needs much improvement	Poor No personalized theme evident, many spelling or capitalization errors which distract the reader
Content: 3 articles 10 % (your life story in a newspaper--3rd person writing)	Excellent Birth article and two detail articles (each article, at least 5 sentences in length). All elements are shown and fully developed	Good Elements lack depth or newspaper is missing one article	Fair Elements lack depth or article is missing two or more paragraphs	Poor Vague undeveloped work or assignment is incomplete
Photographs 5 %	Excellent Found perfect pictures to capture essence of the articles.	Good Found good pictures to accompany the articles.	Fair Found 1 to 2 pictures to accompany the articles.	Poor there are not pictures to accompany the articles.
Creativity 10 %	Excellent Student goes above and beyond with creativity in the News of Me! assignment. Enjoyable, worth printing for the entire class!	Good Student is somewhat creative.	Fair Student presents an average newspaper, but with a bit more creativity and enthusiasm, it could be a good newspaper.	Poor Try harder to be creative and imaginative with such a personal, fun assignment. No one knows you more than YOU!
Followed Directions 5 %	Excellent Student has included all required components to create an autobiographical newspaper including the following elements: a creative name and motto for your newspaper, one picture with caption, headlines and by lines (all 3 articles), your birth article, a personal activity (sport/talent/past time) article, and a free choice personal article	Good	Fair	Poor Student has not included all required components