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Enlightenment Presentations

Students will work together to create a presentation on a key figure from the Enlightenment. They can put together a presentation, a song, a skit, or a poster that showcases why this figure was influential during the Enlightenment.

Rubric Code: P29584

By maschjt

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Subject: History

Type: Presentation

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

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	Excellent 4 pts	Fair 2 pts	Absent 0 pts
Group Skills	Excellent Students are facing each other and encouraging others to contribute to the group in a positive way. Very little time is wasted. Laptops are used to research and organize the presentation.	Fair Some students are working together, but others are on the side and are not encouraged to join the group. Some people are texting or surfing the internet.	Absent Students are working completely separately, discouraging other people's ideas with put-downs and jokes, and some or all are surfing the web or playing video games.
Individual Effort	Excellent Student contributed to the group effort, made others in the group feel welcome, and helped the group progress towards a goal. The student stayed positive with her/himself, and with others.	Fair Students was mostly positive, but occasionally put someone else down and spent some time doing off-task things that did not help the project move forward.	Absent Student made no effort to involve her/ himself in the group or to involve others. Much time was spent off-task.
Presentation	Excellent Project is creative, historically accurate, and involves all members of the group in production. It explains the reason this person is still relevant in society today.	Fair Project involves most of the group and is partly historically accurate. It may fail to make the connection between this person and today's society.	Absent Project is put on by one person or is not presented at all.
Summary	Excellent Presentation concludes with a one sentence summary of the "Big Idea" of this philosophe. (2 points total)	Fair Summary statement is either not relevant is not one sentence. (1 point)	Absent There is no summary statement. (0 points)