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This rubric shows three major critical thinking areas - idea, evidence, and response - - at seven performance levels.

Students are to create a newspaper, covering the plague. The newspaper should include headline news article, 2 side articles, 2-3 ads, and classifieds as well as other creative items such as pictures, an advice column or sports column, advertisements, etc.

Student self evaluation for project.

Students will research, plan, and compose a speech in which their speech will be evaluated in terms of specific standards set in class, including the clarity and completeness of the speech

Students will create an advertisement for a new product that they have created. Advertisements should include content, creativitiy, and use a logical fallacy to advertise.

Students will create a presentation etc. in which they discuss what sonnet is, the types, and examples of each. They will then create a how to guide in which they will choose a sonnet to practice basic analysis skills, including marking the meter, feet, translating it into your own words, and label ingfigurative language!

Elements of Shakespearean or Petrarchan Style Sonnets in a series of poems

After reading plays students write their own one-act with a character page, scenes, stage directions, etc.

The student will make a newspaper including newspaper title, date, articles,photos/illustrations, and other features to share a chosen historical topic from the list provided based on the Count of Monte Cristo.

Students will be assigned to work in teams of 5 students. Each team is expected to write, rehearse, and perform a newscast based off provided questions. Settings, events, and characters should be incorporated into news stories.

Students should select which writer or speaker they believe did the best at being persuasive and then create a power point in which they argue for their pick using rhetorical devices and explaining them.

Oral communication is a prepared, purposeful presentation designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners' attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors. Oral communication takes many forms. This rubric is specifically designed to evaluate oral presentations of a single speaker at a time and is best applied to live or video-recorded presentations. For panel presentations or group presentations, it is recommended that each speaker be evaluated separately. This rubric best applies to presentations of sufficient length such that a central message is conveyed, supported by one or more forms of supporting materials and includes a purposeful organization. An oral answer to a single question not designed to be structured into a presentation does not readily apply to this rubric.

After viewing a play, students review the LA play performance of The Crucible and discuss its effectiveness vs. the play version we read. Each point should follow up with evidence and explanation. A clear thesis is required.

Does "Life on the Mississippi" or "Jumping Frog" better fit the definition of humor Twain gives?

This is the rubric for the second quarter essay, in which you will add a new Federal Holiday to the government's calendar at the expense of an already existing holiday.

Create a travel brochure for Salem, MA in 1692. Include Design a book jacket for a new edition of The Crucible—you cannot use already established pictures of book covers or from ANY films! Draw, trace or “cut & paste” a photograph or illustration that will appear on the cover. Write the “blurb” for the book jacket that will interest bookstore browsers and compel them to buy the book and read it. You should also justify the choices you made.

Design a New Book Cover: Use your knowledge of the story and characters to create a new book cover you think would entice readers to pick up this book and read it. The images must be original, either drawn or created with the assistance of computer design. You must also write a blurb about why you made the choices you did and why someone would want to read the novel with your cover