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Nose for Norse News--Writing a Mythical News Story

Greek and Roman Mythology Tabloid

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Rubric Code: D2CW86

By klarison

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Subject: English

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: 6-8

A Nose for Norse News--Writing Students chose a Norse myth to turn into a news story, a feature story, or a sports story.
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 3 pts	Excellent 5 pts
Meets Requirements All 5 requirements are met: (1) an original headline, (2) a current-event type news story, feature, or sports story describing an occurence from a myth, (3) an interview with a character from a myth, (4) a first person account of an event from a myth, and (5) picture(s).	Poor Tabloid contains 2 or less than the 5 requirements, or the requirements that are there have not been fully completed.	Fair Tabloid contains at least 3 of the 5 requirements, fully completed.	Good All 5 of the requirements are fully completed.	Excellent All 5 requirements are fully completed, and the article also goes above and beyond in creativity.
Grammar Article follows proper grammatical conventions (ex: proper punctuation, correct sentence structure, correct spelling).	Poor Many of the proper grammatical conventions are not followed.	Fair All aspects of the article follow most proper grammatical conventions, but there are a few errors.	Good All aspects of the article follow proper grammatical conventions.	Excellent All aspects of the article follow proper grammatical conventions; Some sentences are more complex, and some larger words are used.
Relevance/Accuracy Article should be relevent to Norse myths with accurate information from the myths.	Poor Article is hardly relevant at all to the Norse myths. Little, if any, of the information in the articles is accurate information from the myths.	Fair Article is somewhat relevant to Norse myths-The information in the articles is only somewhat accurate information from myths.	Good Article is relevant to Norse myths-The information in the articles is accurate information from myths.	Excellent Articles is relevant to the Norse myths, and combine elements with a creative spin.
Creativity Article should be original and creative.	Poor Article has not really been written as a news article about Norse myths with no original spin; it lacks a hook and is uninteresting.	Fair Article has been written as a news article, but it lacks originality.	Good Article is original; it has a hook that draws the reader in and is interesting.	Excellent Article is original; it draws the reader in with a hook, is interesting, and provides an innovative way of looking at Norse myths.
Visual Appeal Article should be in newspaper format. Article should include pictures.	Poor Article may or may not be in newspaper form, lacks pictures entirely.	Fair Article is in newspaper format and does contain pictures, but the pictures are either unclear or unrelevant.	Good Article is in newspaper format, with clear, correctly cropped, relevant pictures.	Excellent Article is in newspaper format, with clear, correctly cropped, relevant pictures that ad to the story.

Keywords:

mythology, tabloid

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English

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