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The Oregon Trail Game Rubric

Students wrote journal entries where they needed to include important information (name, date in game, location in game, how far they traveled) along with 4-6 sentences about what happened during their gameplay.

Rubric Code: A243374

By trishancastro

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Subject: History

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 6-8

Oregon Trail Game Journal Simulation
	Unacceptable 0 pts	Fair 1 pts	Excellent 2 pts
Important Information from Gameplay	Unacceptable The assignment does not include any of the required information.	Fair The assignment includes a majority of the required information (i.e. student is missing total distance traveled, but included in-game location and date).	Excellent Their assignment includes the date in the game, the location in the game, and how far they have traveled.
First Section on Trail Conditions and an Event	Unacceptable The assignment does not include any trail conditions or a major event that happened during gameplay.	Fair The assignment includes one sentence about the trail conditions and/or a major event that happened during game play.	Excellent The assignment includes the trail conditions and a major event that happened in 2-4 sentences.
Second Section on Motivations	Unacceptable The assignment does not include any mention of the motivations of their character (i.e. why someone would want to travel the Oregon Trail, what is happening in the country for someone to want to leave, etc.)	Fair The assignment includes one sentence about why someone might want to travel the Oregon Trail and/or why their character left their home to travel on it.	Excellent The assignment includes 2-4 sentences on the motivations of their character and/or some reasons for why someone would want to travel on the Oregon Trail.
Proper Formatting	Unacceptable The assignment does not have a greeting (i.e. "dear diary," "to whom it may concern," etc.) or a closing (i.e. "farewell," "sincerely," etc.).	Fair The assignment is missing either a greeting or a closing statement.	Excellent The assignment has both a greeting (i.e. "dear diary") and a closing (i.e. "sincerely").