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Thinking Like a Historian

Rubric for completion of "TLAH" assignments

Rubric Code: QX3324A

By gharvey

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Subject: History

Type: Assignment

Grade Levels: 9-12, Undergraduate

Think Like a Historian Assignment rubric
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Satisfactory 3 pts
Article Summary 1 pts Summarize the articles, pointing out agreement and disagreement between the authors	Poor Article not summarized. Only restating sentences from each article. No evidence of understanding of the historical issue or arguments	Fair Acceptable summary of each article, but draws no connections and/or differences between each article/argument.	Satisfactory Solid summary of each article that draws distinctions between the competing viewpoints and shows understanding of the historical arguments.
Doc Summary 1 pts Summarize the docs, showing how each differs and relates to the articles	Poor Mere summary of obvious points of the document. No comparing or contrasting. No relation to the articles.	Fair Doc summarized well, but no connection drawn to the articles or the larger argument	Satisfactory Solid analysis of each document. Connection between documents and articles is clear and easy to see.
Your conclusions 1 pts Thinking about what you've read, YOU be the historian. Come to YOUR own conclusion. Support with documents and articles you agree with	Poor Restates conclusions of articles. No evidence of personal conclusions or consideration of the issue.	Fair Restates conclusions and uses an already stated conclusion by an article as conclusion. Lacks personal consideration of the issue.	Satisfactory Shows evidence of deep consideration of the historical complexity and uses articles to support conclusion Conclusion in own words.