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Biography Letter

Holocaust Biography Letter

Students will read a biography of a person and then write a letter to them based on the information in the biography.

Rubric Code: R67669

By shelkins

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Subject: Social Sciences

Type: Assignment

Grade Levels: K-5, 6-8

Biography Letter Enter rubric description
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 3 pts	Excellent 4 pts
Structure Enter criteria description	Poor Letter has no specific form and body of letter fails to includes a question to the subject.	Fair Letter is mostly in proper form and body of letter fails to includes a question to the subject.	Good Letter has proper form and body of letter includes a question to the subject.	Excellent Letter has proper form and body of letter includes more than one question to the subject.
Focus Enter criteria description	Poor Content of letter has no relevance to the biographical information in book.	Fair Content of letter is relevant to biographical information in book and writer asked one question that was relevant to subject's life.	Good Content of letter is relevant to biographical information in book and writer asked questions that were relevant to writer's life.	Excellent Content of letter is relevant to biographical information in book and writer asked questions that proved further thought into the subject's life.
Voice Letter needs to be 1 full page long and double spaced.	Poor Letter has no voice or feeling.	Fair Letter contains some voice and feeling.	Good Letter contains much voice and expresses feeling about an event in the subject's life.	Excellent Letter contains much voice and feeling and empathizes with an event in the subject's life.
Mechanics, Usage, Grammar, Spelling Students need to ask 2 or more questions related to the biography of the child.	Poor Writer has many spelling mistakes. Correct grammar is not always used. Words are not used in proper context. Verb tense is incorrect.	Fair Writer has many spelling mistakes. Correct grammar is sometimes used. Words are not always used in proper context. Verb tense is sometimes correct.	Good Writer has few to no spelling mistakes. Correct grammar is usually used. Words are used in proper context. Verb tense is mostly mostly correct.	Excellent Writer has no spelling mistakes. Correct grammar is consistently used. Words are used in proper context. Verb tense is correct.