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Historical Personal Diary

Student is to "write" a diary of a fictional person who could have traveled to America.This journal or diary needs to reflect accurately the experiences a person from the selected time period could/would have experienced. Use knowledge gained from the materials presented in class to create the diary entries as you think that person would have experienced. You have literary license to make up appropriate and historically accurate experiences. Must be STUDENT ORIGINAL.

Rubric Code: HX95X57

By HolyCross

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Subject: History

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: K-5

DIARY
	Above Expectations 5 pts	Meets Expectations 3 pts	Below Expectations 1 pts
CONTENT	Above Expectations Historically accurate; appropriate entries for person; amount of information is abundant; a real person of this era	Meets Expectations Historically accurate; amount of information is above average; no character connection	Below Expectations Inaccurate historically; amount of information is significantly below expectations; no character connection
ORIGINALITY	Above Expectations Student original; unique & appropriately creative in writing and illustrating	Meets Expectations Basic information presented in a typical format	Below Expectations Copied or partially copied from sources or done by another person
REQUIRED ELEMENTS	Above Expectations Dated entries in diary format. Contains more than 5 diary entries. Required pieces included: cover, diary pages, illustrations	Meets Expectations Contains 5 diary entries. Missing or incomplete piece: cover, diary pages, illustrations	Below Expectations Contains less that 5 diary entries. Missing two required elements: cover, diary pages, illustrations
FORMAT	Above Expectations Appropriate entries; fit time period; neat; correct sentence structure, punctuation, and spelling.	Meets Expectations Appropriate entries; fit time period; neat; only 1-4 errors in sentence structure, punctuation, spelling.	Below Expectations Some entries inappropriate to time period; more than 5 errors in sentence structure, punctuation, spelling.