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Trail of Tears Paper

Research Paper

5th - 6th grade research paper

Rubric Code: B47B35

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: K-5

Research Paper
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 3 pts	Excellent 4 pts
ORGANIZATION	Poor Ideas are disorganized, unclear, or just listed. Topic sentences and conclusions are missing.	Fair Facts and details are not well organized into paragraphs with clear main ideas. There are few topic sentences and some details are stray ideas.	Good Paragraphs are well organized. There are almost no stray ideas and topic sentences help to separate and organized.	Excellent Main ideas are stated in topic sentences. Facts, examples, and details are organized in paragraphs creating a good flow. Conclusion paragraph ends on good note.
CRITICAL THINKING	Poor Little to no critical thinking evident in paper. Emotional responses rather than use of good arguments. No exploration of others' opinions.	Fair Little use of critical thinking, with some good ideas/arguments. Some exploration of others' opinions.	Good Critical thinking evident with some good ideas/arguments. Consideration of others' ideas included.	Excellent Critical thinking evident with excellent use of ideas/arguments. Consideration of others' ideas included well.
GRAMMAR	Poor Many mistakes make the paper hard to understand. Did not use checklist to revise or edit.	Fair Mistakes sometimes make the essay hard to understand. Did not take enough time to revise or edit.	Good There are a few mistakes, but they do not affect understanding. Checklist was used to edit and revise.	Excellent There are almost no errors in grammar, capitalization, spelling or usage. Checklist was clearly used to edit and revise.
RESOURCES/CITING	Poor There are 2 or less resources with many citing mistakes.	Fair There are less than three sources with citing mistakes.	Good There are three sources with a few citing mistakes.	Excellent There are three or more resources that are cited correctly and neatly.
PRESENTATION	Poor Work was very difficult to read, paper was torn or crumpled, work was smugged.	Fair Paper was ripped or smugged or wrinkled. Some words or sentences were difficult to read.	Good Paper was neatly written or typed. Little evidence of corrections having been made.	Excellent Paper was neatly written or typed with no evidence of corrections having been made.
LENGTH	Poor The report is less than one page.	Fair The report is less than 1 1/2 pages	Good The report is less than 2 pages.	Excellent The report meets the requirement of 2-3 pages.
WORK ETHIC	Poor Did not use time wisely or did not keep up with each step of required assignment. Procrastinated and did not cooperate with partner	Fair Did not use time wisely. Sometimes, they did not listen to instructions and got behind with the assignment. Showed signs of procrastination.	Good Kept up with research assignments, remained organized, and kept up with materials. Assignment was turned in on time.	Excellent Kept up with each step of the research and assignment. They listened, worked hard, and used time wisely while helping others. Project was early or on time.

Subjects:

English

Types:

Writing

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