American Revolution Cumulative Project Rubric News Report / Newspaper

Students Name: _________________________________

Task Description: Create your own news report or newspaper that retells the story of the American Revolution. You may be as creative as possible.

ACTIVITY Exemplary Proficient Partially Proficient Incomplete POINTS

Accuracy

4 Points

Students accurately retell the story of the American Revolution, providing

accurate facts and details and appropriate images.

3 points

Students accurately retell the story of the American Revolution,

Some facts and details are accurate and student used

appropriate images

2 points

Students retell the story of the American Revolution. Facts and details are not accurate, there

are some images are appropriate.

0-1 points

Students do not retell the story of the American Revolution. Facts and

details are not accurate, there are no images.

Script/ Storyboard/Conventions

4 points

The storyboard illustrates the video presentation structure with thumbnail

sketches of each scene. Notes of proposed transition, special effects,

sound and title tracks incl: text, color, placement, graphics, etc. Notes about proposed dialogue/ narration text are included. There are no grammatical, punctuation, or capitalization errors

3 points

The storyboard includes thumbnail sketches of each video scene and includes text for each segment of the presentation, descriptions of

background audio for each scene, and notes about proposed shots

and dialogue.There are few grammatical, punctuation, or capitalization

errors

2 points

The thumbnail sketches on the storyboard are not in logical

sequence and do not provide complete descriptions of the

video scenes, audio background, or notes about the dialogue.

There are many grammatical, punctuation, or capitalization

errors

0-1 points

There is no evidence of a storyboard or script.

Content/ Organization/

Flow

4 points

The story flows in order of events. You included at least 3 causes of the war, 3 battles, including the first, the last

and any other battle of your choosing, you describe at least 5 key people of

the war. You gave great details about each cause (why it happened, and what the colonists did), the battles

(who won, and what happened), and the key people (who they were and

3 pointsThe story flows in order of events. You included at least 2 causes of the war, 2 battles, including the

first, the last, you describe at least 4 key people of the war. You gave some details about each

cause (why it happened, and what the colonists did), the battles (who

won, and what happened), and the key people (who they were and their major roles during the

time)

2 pointsThe story does not flow in order

of events. You included at least 1 cause1 of the war, 1 battle, you describe at least 2 key people of the war. You gave minor details

about each cause (why it happened, and what the

colonists did), the battles (who won, and what happened), and the key people (who they were and their major roles during the

time)

0-1 pointsThe story does not flow

order of events. You did not include a cause of the war, a battle, you did not describe

key people of the war.

their major roles during the time)

Creativity 4 points

You went above and beyond to create your project. A lot of effort has been made to put your project together. Your project held the audience’s

attention.

3 points

You went above and beyond to create your project. Some effort

has been made to put your project together. Your project held most

of the audience’s attention..

2 points

You added little creativity to your project. No effort was made to

put your project together. It held a few of the audience’s attention.

0-1 pointsThere was no creativity. Project did not keep the

audience’s attention.

Teamwork 4 points

Student met and had discussions regularly. All students on the team

contributed to the discussion and were part of the final project. Team

members showed respect with each other.

3 points

Students met and had discussions regularly. Most of the students on

the team contributed to the discussion and were part of the

final project. Team members mostly showed respect with each

other.

2 points

Only a couple of team meetings were held. Most of the students on the team contributed at some level, but a majority of the work

was done by one or two.

0-1 points

Meetings were not held and/or some of the team

members did not contribute at all to the project. Low levels of respect were

evident within the team.

Timeliness 4 points

Project was turned in on time. Projects are in the appropriate time frame (5-10

minutes)

3 pointsProject was turned in on time.

Projects are in the appropriate time frame (4-5 minutes)

2 points

Projects were turned in a day late, and do not fall within the

appropriate time frame.

0-1 points

No project was turned in.

Final Score