Terrabucks Scoring Guide Criteria 200XP 300XP 400XP Retell the main Disorganized Some of the Most of the Only the most events of the and scattered main ideas are included details important in an included but are necessary. details are organized there are a lot Organization of included. manner. of details that thoughts is still Information is are not developing. organized important. exceptionally well. Communicate Student tried to There is The The your book in a communicate evidence of presentation is presentation is creative their book, but preparation, but communicated prepared well manner. effort was not the format is clearly and and captures taken to basic and does captures some the interest of prepare it. not capture interest. More the audience in enough interest. attention to a creative adding creative manner. elements is needed. Describe the Many characters Most Nearly all of All Main appearance of were the major are not characters Characters the main described. were described. characters were described using characters. Descriptions Language and described. excellent and details are descriptions Vocabulary and vocabulary minimal. used are very details used are and refined basic. still detail. developing. Connect your A personal life A personal life A personal life A personal life own life experience was experience was experience was experience was experiences to related to an related to an related to an related to an something that event that event that event that event that happened in the happened in the happened in the happened in the happened in the book. book. There is book. There is book. There is book. There is no comparison minimal some significant of thoughts and comparison of comparison of comparison feelings of the the thoughts the thoughts between the student with and feelings of and feelings of students’ that of the the student with the student with thoughts and character. that of the that of the feelings with character. character. that of the character. Adjust voice Voice level Voice level was level was Voice level was level to that you would get you appropriate appropriate appropriate would hear at a kicked out of a some of the most of the 100% of the coffee shop. coffee shop. time. time. time.
Terrabucks Scoring Guide Criteria 200XP 300XP 400XP Retell the main events of the in an organized manner. Disorganized and scattered Some of the main ideas are included but there are a lot of details that are not important. Most of the included details are necessary. Organization of thoughts is still developing. Only the most important details are included. Information is organized exceptionally well. Communicate your book in a creative manner. Student tried to communicate their book, but effort was not taken to prepare it. There is evidence of preparation, but the format is basic and does not capture enough interest. The presentation is communicated clearly and captures some interest. More attention to adding creative elements is needed. The presentation is prepared well and captures the interest of the audience in a creative manner. Describe the appearance of the main characters. Many characters were not described. Descriptions and details are minimal. Most characters were described. Language and descriptions used are very basic. Nearly all of the major characters were described. Vocabulary and details used are still developing. All Main Characters are described using excellent vocabulary and refined detail. Connect your own life experiences to something that happened in the book. A personal life experience was related to an event that happened in the book. There is no comparison of thoughts and feelings of the student with that of the character. A personal life experience was related to an event that happened in the book. There is minimal comparison of the thoughts and feelings of the student with that of the character. A personal life experience was related to an event that happened in the book. There is some comparison of the thoughts and feelings of the student with that of the character. A personal life experience was related to an event that happened in the book. There is significant comparison between the students’ thoughts and feelings with that of the character. Adjust voice level to that you would hear at a coffee shop. Voice level would get you kicked out of a coffee shop. Voice level was appropriate some of the time. level was appropriate most of the time. Voice level was appropriate 100% of the time.