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Louisiana Purchase Journal Entry Lewis and Clark Historic Journal Entry Students will write a journal from EITHER President Thomas Jefferson's perspective OR Napoleon Bonaparte's perspective on the purchase of the Louisiana Territory. Rubric Code: G2WCAB2 By tramirez0311 Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: History Type: Writing Grade Levels: 6-8

Journal Writing
	Excellent 4 pts	Acceptable 3 pts	Satisfactory 2 pts	Unacceptable 0 pts
Content	Excellent Response to assigned topic thorough and well written, with varied sentence structure and vocabulary; opinions always supported with facts.	Acceptable Response thoughtful and fairly well written; most opinions supported with facts.	Satisfactory Response adequately addresses some aspects of the assigned topic; opinions sometimes based on incorrect information.	Unacceptable Response consists of unsupported opinions only marginally related to the topic.
Idea Development	Excellent Excellent use of examples and details to explore and develop ideas and opinions.	Acceptable Good reliance upon examples and details to illustrate and develop ideas and opinions.	Satisfactory Incomplete development of ideas; details and examples not always evident.	Unacceptable Ideas not clearly stated or developed.
Organization	Excellent Very logically organized; contains introduction; development of main idea (or ideas), and conclusion.	Acceptable Contains introduction, some development of ideas, and conclusion.	Satisfactory Topics and ideas discussed somewhat randomly; entry may lack clearly defined introduction or conclusion.	Unacceptable Entry is unstructured.
Grammar and Mechanics	Excellent Perfect spelling and punctuation.	Acceptable Few or no spelling errors; some minor punctuation mistakes.	Satisfactory Several spelling and punctuation errors.	Unacceptable Many instances of incorrect spelling and punctuation.
Images	Excellent All images added and relevant to subject matter.	Acceptable Some images added that were relevant to the subject matter	Satisfactory Images added but are irrelevant.	Unacceptable No images added to the journal entry.