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Journal Entry Spiral Rubric

Students need to have journal entries for every classes in a notebook with journal responses to the questions presented for warm-up. Requirements: Have a spiral journal notebook Have journal entry dated and answered using sentences All stray papers must be stapled or glued into journal spiral in order.

Rubric Code: VXW8C9C

By lugates

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Subject: English

Type: Class note

Grade Levels: 6-8

Journal
	Excellent 5 pts	Good 4.5 pts	Fair 3.5 pts	Poor 2 pts
Organized	Excellent journal is organized logically, clearly in a meaningful manner.	Good journal is mostly complete and organized logically, clearly in a meaningful manner.	Fair journal is somewhat organized. Not all entires are present in spiral	Poor journal not organized or complete. Hardly any are present.
Date & Absence	Excellent Date is written above every entry, if absent, "absent"is written below the date.	Good date is written on most of the notes, if absent, "absent" is written below the date.	Fair date is found on some of the journals and/or for missing journals, "absent" is not written	Poor Limited amount of entires with the date.
Neatness	Excellent Journal is very neat. Journals are taken with a lot of care. All entries are in the spiral.	Good Journal is mostly neat and taken with some care. Most of the entries are in the spiral and those that are not are neatly stapled or glue in spiral.	Fair Journal is a little neat and taken with some care. Some entries are stapled in or glued in.	Poor Spiral is not neat and very little care was taken in taking the journal.Lose papers or not all papers are stapled or glued in. Student has to ask for time to staple or glue things in.
Clarity	Excellent All of the journal is very easy to understand. By reading the journal, a student who was not present in class would understand the lesson and/or journal is explained using more than 2 sentences.	Good Most of the journal is as follows: Journal is very easy to understand. By reading the journal, a student who was not present in class would understand the lesson and/or journal is explained using more than 2 sentences.	Fair only some of the entries are easy to understand and/or not all the journals are written using at least 2 sentences.	Poor hard to understand, sentences are not used, and/or journal is too short or messy to understand