Name _____________________________________Date _______________Period ______________

The Odyssey Tabloid Project Rubric

Directions: Students will pick one of the challenges Odysseus faces on his journey home. Students will then write a tabloid article about the event. This article should include all the exaggerations and obscure sources that a tabloid article would. Students will then create the tabloid article in Microsoft Publisher. They will include headlines, dateline, by-line, and pictures in their article. The following shows how you will be graded:

Article is at least one full page (worth 25 points) _____/25

Article is based on an event within The Odyssey (worth 15 points) _____/15

Article is free from errors, both grammatical and spelling (worth 25 points) _____/25

Article shows creativity, use of art and color (worth 10 points) _____/10

Rough draft (worth 25 points) _____/25

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Total points earned/Total points available _____/100