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Newspaper Article Gilded Age Newspaper Edition Imagine you are a journalist. Create a newspaper article as if you were living during this time period. You might want to consider the different aspects we have learned about. Make sure to include a picture & caption like traditional front page news articles. Be as creative as possible when putting together your newspaper article, but use the criteria as a checklist to help you to stay on task during the course of this assignment. Rubric Code: UXAW259 By BPatter Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Reading Grade Levels: 6-8

Newspaper
	Fair (N/A)	Good (N/A)	Excellent (N/A)
Articles 3-5 paragraphs, 5+sentences per paragraph	Fair One of the article components presents & meets the criteria given.	Good Most of the article components present and meet the criteria given.	Excellent All article components present and meet the criteria given.
Article Elements Who, what, when, where, why and how	Fair The article is missing 3+ elements	Good The article is missing 2 elements	Excellent Article addresses the Who, What, When, Where, Why and How - fully explained.
Creativity (ads and drawing) Must have at least 1 picture with caption	Fair The article does not seem well thought out or planned. Lacks continuity and flow for the reader.	Good The article does not seem to be well thought out -little creativity shown. Met the basic stipulations laid out by the teacher.	Excellent Student is very creative and the product was very well thought out. They used various fonts and had a creative page layout.
Neatness and Effort Ink & legible	Fair The newspaper is extremely messy and looks as if no thought was put into this project. Contains many errors/corrections adding to the messiness, written in pencil.	Good The quality of the newspaper is messy, but it is written in ink or typed.	Excellent The newspaper has no distracting errors or corrections. It is not messy, and is typed in ink.