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Immigration Diary

Student is to "write" a diary of a generic immigrant (1892-1920) that reflects accurately the experiences a child from this time period could/would have experienced. Use knowledge gained from the novel and classroom activities to create the diary entries as you think that child would have experienced. You need to have 6 entries.

Rubric Code: T5285C

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Subject: English

Type: Assignment

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DIARY
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Average 3 pts	Good 4 pts	Excellent (N/A)
CONTENT Entry 1: Information about you, your family, the beginning of your journey, your country, and the reasons why you want to immigrate.	Poor Your entry is not sufficient, does not have enough information, and information is mostly incorrect. Some of it is not comprehensable. (5)	Fair Your entry is short and mostly understandable. Insufficient use of background information that was given in class. Entry is not very personable. (8)	Average Your entry is rather short but all is understandable. Good use of background information given in class. Entry is not very personable. OR Entry is very personable , but insufficient use of background information. (9)	Good Length of entry is sufficient. Most of the information used is accurate. Entry is very personable. (10)	Excellent Historically accurate. Appropriate length of entry. Amount of information is abundant. This could have been an entry of a real person. (11)
CONTENT Entry 2: on the way to the USA, living conditions on board of the ship,worries about time/situation ahead of you.	Poor Your entry is not sufficient, does not have enough information, and information is mostly incorrect. Some of it is not comprehensable. (5)	Fair Your entry is short and mostly understandable. Insufficient use of background information that was given in class. Entry is not very personable.(8)	Average Your entry is rather short but all is understandable. Good use of background information given in class. Entry is not very personable. OR Entry is very personable , but insufficient use of background information. (9)	Good Length of entry is sufficient. Most of the information used is accurate. Entry is very personable. (10)	Excellent Historically accurate. Appropriate length of entry. Amount of information is abundant. This could have been an entry of a real person. (11)
CONTENT Entry 3: Ellis Island;feelings of arrival at new country, things you see, experiences of the immigration process, duration of process, description of inspectors.	Poor Your entry is not sufficient, does not have enough information, and information is mostly incorrect. Some of it is not comprehensable. (5)	Fair Your entry is short and mostly understandable. Insufficient use of background information that was given in class. Entry is not very personable. (8)	Average Your entry is rather short but all is understandable. Good use of background information given in class. Entry is not very personable. OR Entry is very personable , but insufficient use of background information. (9)	Good Length of entry is sufficient. Most of the information used is accurate. Entry is very personable. (10)	Excellent Historically accurate. Appropriate length of entry. Amount of information is abundant. This could have been an entry of a real person. (11)
CONTENT Entry 4: describe your new home/living quarters, home life like food, chores, play etc,	Poor Your entry is not sufficient, does not have enough information, and information is mostly incorrect. Some of it is not comprehensable. (5)	Fair Your entry is short and mostly understandable. Insufficient use of background information that was given in class. Entry is not very personable. (8)	Average Your entry is rather short but all is understandable. Good use of background information given in class. Entry is not very personable. OR Entry is very personable , but insufficient use of background information. (9)	Good Length of entry is sufficient. Most of the information used is accurate. Entry is very personable. (10)	Excellent Historically accurate. Appropriate length of entry. Amount of information is abundant. This could have been an entry of a real person. (11)
CONTENT Entry 5: you school day; subjects learned in class, description of other students and your teacher, other school activities.	Poor Your entry is not sufficient, does not have enough information, and information is mostly incorrect. Some of it is not comprehensable. (5)	Fair Your entry is short and mostly understandable. Insufficient use of background information that was given in class. Entry is not very personable. (8)	Average Your entry is rather short but all is understandable. Good use of background information given in class. Entry is not very personable. OR Entry is very personable , but insufficient use of background information. (9)	Good Length of entry is sufficient. Most of the information used is accurate. Entry is very personable. (10)	Excellent Historically accurate. Appropriate length of entry. Amount of information is abundant. This could have been an entry of a real person. (11)
CONTENT Entry 6: child labor; reasons why you have to start going to work, feelings about this decision, description of your job and workplace, earnings.	Poor Your entry is not sufficient, does not have enough information, and information is mostly incorrect. Some of it is not comprehensable. (5)	Fair Your entry is short and mostly understandable. Insufficient use of background information that was given in class. Entry is not very personable. (8)	Average Your entry is rather short but all is understandable. Good use of background information given in class. Entry is not very personable. OR Entry is very personable , but insufficient use of background information. (9)	Good Length of entry is sufficient. Most of the information used is accurate. Entry is very personable. (10)	Excellent Historically accurate. Appropriate length of entry. Amount of information is abundant. This could have been an entry of a real person. (11)
GRAMMAR Correct use of grammar.	Poor Incomplete sentences, constant change of verb tense, incorrect contractions and other incorrect grammatical uses. (5)	Fair Some incomplete sentences, some changes in verb tense, some other incorrect grammatical uses. (8)	Average Sentences are complete but several other grammatical problems still occur. (10)	Good Sentences are complete and few grammar mistakes occur. (11)	Excellent Sentences are complete with perfect grammar usage. (12)
SPELLING Effort is shown for correct spelling.	Poor No effort is shown to have correct spelling. Student does not make use of references for correct spelling. (5)	Fair Little effort is shown to have correct spelling. References could be used better to improve spelling. (8)	Average Work shows that references were used to have correct spelling on specific words, but there are still several other spelling mistakes. (10)	Good Very few spelling mistakes. (11)	Excellent Perfect spelling. (12)
NEATNESS Appearance of diary, content and cover.	Poor Sloppy work. No effort shown in making of diary cover. (5)	Fair Rather sloppy work. Some effort is shown in making of cover. (8)	Average Effort has been put forth in showing rather neat entries and in the making of the diary cover. (10)	Good Most entries are neat. Original diary cover. (11)	Excellent Entries are always neat. Very original diary cover. (12)

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