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Historical Personal Slave Diary

Student is to "write" a diary of a fictional person who could have traveled the Underground Railroad.This journal or diary needs to reflect accurately the experiences a person from the selected time period could/would have experienced. Use knowledge gained from the materials presented in class to create the diary entries as you think that person would have experienced. You have literary license to make up appropriate and historically accurate experiences. Must be STUDENT ORIGINAL.

Rubric Code: XX57W5A

By augustachick

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Subject: History

Type: Writing

Grade Levels: K-5, 9-12

DIARY
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Average 3 pts	Good 4 pts	Excellent 5 pts
CONTENT	Poor (5)Inaccurate historically;amount of information is significantly below expectations	Fair (10)Somewhat accurate. amount of information is slightly below expectations	Average (15)Historically accurate;amount is information is satisfactory	Good (20)Historically accurate; amount of information is above average	Excellent (25)Historically accurate; appropriate entries for person; amount of information is abundant; a real person or "crosses paths" with a real person of this era
ORIGINALITY	Poor (2)Copied or partially copied from sources or done by another person	Fair (4)Basic information presented in a typical format	Average (6)Meets grade level expections for the historical journal	Good (8)quite original and creative	Excellent (10)Student original; unique & appropriately creative
REQUIRED ELEMENTS	Poor Missing all or almost all of the six required pieces: cover, four diary pages, illustrations	Fair One-two entries. Missing two required elements: cover, four diary pages, illustrations	Average One-three entries. Missing quality information on the three pieces:cover, four diary pages, illustrations	Good Two-three entries, missing or incomplete another piece: cover, four diary pages, illustrations	Excellent Three or more dated entries in diary format,required pieces included: cover, four diary pages, illustrations
FORMAT	Poor (2)Some entries inappropriate to time period;more than 13 errors in sentence structure, punctuation, spelling.	Fair (4)Entries may have some minor inaccuracies; 9-12 errors in sentence structure, punctuation, spelling.	Average (6)Appropriate entries related closely to time period. 5-8 errors in sentence structure, punctuation, spelling.	Good (8)Appropriate entries;fit time period; neat; only 1-4errors in sentence structure, punctuation, spelling.	Excellent (10)Appropriate entries; fit time period; neat; sentence structure, punctuation, and spelling ,