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Revolutionary War Newspaper

Students will research the American Revolution and develop their own newspaper that depicts the events of that era.

Rubric Code: NXXA5X

By joglow

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Subject: History

Type: Project

Grade Levels: K-5, 6-8, 9-12, Undergraduate

Revolutionary War Newspaper
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 3 pts	Excellent 4 pts
Job Title	Poor Student did not participate well as the job role and wasted their time in the lab during research	Fair Student participated somewhat but was often off task and not getting work done to benefit the rest of the group	Good Student participated and added their expertise in coming up with a good newspaper	Excellent Student participated, got their job finished thoroughly and helped others in the newspaper process.
Newspaper Layout	Poor Paper was messy and unorganized. Showed little research A lot of grammatical errors, pictures didn't fit the subject area or were blurry.	Fair Paper was organized, but showed little research. Many grammatical errors/ Pictures didn't add to the content of the paper's news	Good Paper was organized. Very little grammatical errors. Pictures went well with the content of their stories	Excellent Paper looked very professional. Few errors. Pictures and any other creative devices fit the paper perfectly. Great research.
Components	Poor Newspaper only had 2 main components	Fair Newspaper had at least 3 components	Good Newspaper had 4-5 components.	Excellent Newspaper had over 5 components.
Authenticity	Poor Most of the information was copied and pasted and lacked student's own thoughts and words.	Fair Some parts were not entirely paraphrased and summarized and appeared to be plagarized.	Good Most of the paper was in the student's own words.	Excellent Entire newspaper shows students' own words and creativity.