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Honors English Photo Essay Project

This rubric is designed to help students and teachers determine the quality of a general photo story video made using PhotoStory 3

Rubric Code: B5WCW5

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Subject: Communication

Type: Project

Grade Levels: 9-12

Honors English Photo Essay Project Students will use this rubric to evaluate each other (and their own) projects. I will also use this rubric to evaluate each project.
	Poor 0 pts	Fair 1 pts	Acceptable 2 pts	Above and Beyond 3 pts
Story/Instruction Structure Do the images selected tell a story?	Poor No structure exists	Fair Missing one or more of the following: beginning middle end	Acceptable Has a recognizable beginning, middle, and end	Above and Beyond Has a beginning that grabs the viewer, a body that moves the story to a satisfying conclusion.
Individual Photo Quality Are all the images used appropriate for the story and pleasing to view?	Poor Choice of images show no consideration for the viewer	Fair 4 or fewer of the images are pleasing to the viewer and/or necessary to tell the story or explain the process (in terms of photo quality and importance)	Acceptable A minimum of 5 of the images used are pleasing to the viewer and necessary to tell the story or explain the process (in terms of talking photo quality and importance)	Above and Beyond All seven of the photos are of high quality and are necessary to the story line.
Flow of Photos Do the photos flow smoothly from one to the next?	Poor Flow of photos is difficult for viewer to follow (too fast, too slow, choppy, etc.)	Fair 4 or fewer photos flow too quickly, too slowly, begin or end in unimportant parts of the photo, etc.	Acceptable 5 or more of the photos flow together in a way that is pleasing to the viewer (overall look of video shows care went into its creation).	Above and Beyond All of the photos flow smoothly from one to the next resulting in a product that creates a desire for a second or third viewing
Narration - IF included Does the narration tell the story?	Poor No narration or incoherent narration	Fair Some of the narration is understandable (clear voice and/or correct grammar and/or word choice is appropriate to the story line)	Acceptable Most of the narration is understandable (clear voice and/or correct grammar and/or word choice is appropriate to the story line)	Above and Beyond All of the narration is understandable (clear voice and correct grammar and word choice is appropriate to the story line)
Soundtrack - IF included Does the music enhance the viewing pleasure?	Poor Music choice, if it exists, causes the viewer to want to turn the video off (it's too loud, inappropriate to the mood, etc.)	Fair The viewer notices the music choice and/or the volume because one or the other distracts from the story.	Acceptable The music choice is appropriate to the story and the volume is low enough to hear but not distract from the narration.	Above and Beyond The music choice and volume work together to enhance the viewing of the video.
Statement of connections Does the student clearly make a connection between the chosen novel and his/her life or society?	Poor No connections between the novel and student or society were made.	Fair A superficial connection between the novel and student or society were made.	Acceptable A meaningful connection was made, but was not fully developed.	Above and Beyond A meaningful societal connection and/or a meaningful personal connection was made and fully developed by the learner.
Grammar and Mechanics Are the statements written in proper English?	Poor There are three or more errors related to grammar or mechanics.	Fair There are two grammar or mechanics errors.	Acceptable There is one grammar or mechanics error.	Above and Beyond There are no errors in punctuation or spelling. There are no run-on or sentence fragments.
Story Board Does the story board help the student sequence the photo story?	Poor Story board was not completed.	Fair Story board was completed, but little thought was put into its design, both in terms of content and artistic elements.	Acceptable Story board was completed, and some thought was put into its design, both in terms of content and artistic elements.	Above and Beyond Much thought, both in terms of content artistic elements was put into the design of the story board.

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storytelling, digital video story

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