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Titanic Article

Students will write a newspaper article from the perspective of the reporters covering the Titanic disaster in 1912.

Rubric Code: BAW4CC

By gordont1

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 6-8

Criteria
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 3 pts	Great 5 pts	Points Earned/Points Possible (N/A)
Content Accurate and vivid representation of facts	Poor Inaccurate and/or few facts presented.	Fair Some mistakes in dealing with accuracy of event.	Great Excellent Job. Described the series of events very accurately and vividly.	Points Earned/Points Possible ____/5
Effort Five paragraphs with developed thoughts.	Poor Little to no effort put forth. Very short.	Fair Student completed the project, but could have tried much harder to do a better job. Not quite five paragraphs.	Great Student put forth necessary effort to successfully complete the article. At least five well-developed paragraphs.	Points Earned/Points Possible ____/5
Creativity Creative and unique tone in presentation of information. Comparable to a real newspaper article.	Poor Article is just listing of facts. No descriptive details. Did not take on role of reporter in writing.	Fair Somewhat unique method of transferring information into an article, but didn't fully adopt theme of reporter.	Great Article written in unique manner. Well thought out. Sounded like a real newspaper article. Creative presentation of information.	Points Earned/Points Possible ____/5
Editing After peer-editing, should have no misspelled words or grammatical errors.	Poor Many misspelled words and/or grammatical errors.	Fair Few misspelled words, mostly grammatically correct. Some effort put into editing, but more could have been done.	Great No misspelled words. Grammatically correct. Obvious effort shown in editing process.	Points Earned/Points Possible ____/5
Layout Columns used in layout of article. Includes titles, illustration, and color.	Poor Not very good/creative layout. Missing title and/or illustration. Article written like normal essay.	Fair Somewhat creative layout. Includes illustration/title. Has some color. Still written in normal essay format.	Great Very creative layout. Article is written in columns. Includes title, illustration, and color.	Points Earned/Points Possible ____/5
Total Earned/ Total Possible ____/25