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Newspaper Project

Students are to create a one to two page newspaper, covering the trial of Tom Robinson, by using the information found in, "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. The Newspaper should include a full report of the trial, as well as other creative items such as pictures, gossip columns, editorials, advertisements, etc.

Rubric Code: T2B487

By ktemple2

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Subject: English

Type: Project

Grade Levels: (none)

Newspaper Project
	Poor 0 pts	Fair 5 pts	Good 10 pts
Report Content	Poor Does not cover the basic facts of the trial as found in the novel. Report is incomplete and/or innaccurate.	Fair Covers a fair amount, but not all of the details of the trail, as found in the novel. Report is nearly complete and accurate.	Good Based on information provided in the novel, a complete description, including all relevent facts of the trial are given.
Mechanics	Poor High amount of grammatical, spelling, and/or punctuation errors.	Fair Few instances of grammatical, spelling , and/or punctuation errors.	Good Project is mostly or completely free of grammatical, spelling, and/or punctuation errors.
Effort and Creativity	Poor Very minimal amount of work has been done. Highly lacking in effort and/or creativity.	Fair Fair amount of effort and creativity have been put forth. Newspaper includes at least a report on the trail and one other component.	Good Obvious amounts of effort have been made. Newspaper is complete with an accurate report of the trial, pictures, commentary and other student-generated creative components.