iRubric: Google Earth Tour-Lincoln's Last Days rubric

Student has either not included a summary for 3 or more locations or has failed to pull out the main ideas to put together a summary or the events in the story is not in sequence or events are missing (3 or more).

Student has included a summary but it is not succinct or does not use key words or phrases related to what is happening in the novel.
Or 1-2 events in the story are not in sequenced order or are missing.

Student has included a summary that targets the main idea, but may be missing one of the key details for a complete summary. All events are included and are in sequenced order.

Students summary includes main ideas, key details, uses key words and phrases related to the section of the novel. All events are included and are in sequenced order.

Blogs are always submitted late, contains only a few scribbles, documentation of students thinking is missing or incorrect. There are no unassigned entries that the student submitted on their own.

Little or no self assigned journal entries also is missing one or more assigned entries. Shallow or not enough writing to help the teacher judge, anger or claim that the student doesn't know what to write, Little or no risk taking with thinking-or none that is documented (see first 2 columns for thinking requirements), many spelling and mechanical errors in writing.

There are a few entries the student made on their own but there are more teacher assigned prompts. Less risk taking, often you will see comments from the teacher "not enough depth"; "needs more analysis" or prompts the student to quite more frequently. Evidence the student hasn't gone back to their writing due to many errors in spelling and writing mechanics.

Student has made in-depth and frequent entries, entries both assigned and not assigned (there are more self-directed blogs than directed), shows risk taking (tried out ideas and combined or added to current ideas) and there are few or no spelling or gramatical errors.