MARKING RUBRIC CRITERIA 1 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3 4 Section 1, 2, 3: Displays limited Displays Displays Displays thorough Historical understanding of moderate substantial understanding of knowledge of time few historical understanding of understanding of all historical period; knowledge of concepts; only a some historical most historical concepts; the position; choosing few facts of concepts; many concepts; many most convincing relevant facts to limited relevance facts were chosen facts were evidence, support main were chosen to to support the chosen to examples, & argument (thesis) support the main main argument; support the main relevant facts (Knowledge/ argument some facts were argument were chosen to more relevant support the main Understanding) X2 than others argument Venn Diagram & Displays limited Displays some Displays Displays thorough Conclusion: analysis; analysis; moderate & insightful Analysis, Information is Information is analysis; analysis; assessment of ideas, limited and not present and some Information is Information is concepts from much thought thought went into clear and thought thorough and the sources; formulation went into the the presentation went into the placement of the of a clear, viable presentation of of these ideas presentation of is main argument these ideas the ideas out and (thesis) in response accurate to reflective question/statement/ topic (Thinking/Inquiry) X2 Communicating Rarely explains Occasionally Usually explains Consistently Ideas with clarity & explains with with clarity & explains ideas (Communication) precision; visually clarity & precision; good with clarity & not appealing precision; organization and precision; and/or not all occasional visuals appropriate strong elements included and some choices for visuals, clear, and organization images thoughtfully evident chosen Depth of Research; Limited evidence Some evidence of Clear evidence of Evidence of Citation of sources of research; few research; limited research; considerable (Application) sources and/or number of sufficient number research; many citations, not sources and/or of sources and/or sources and/or properly in-text citations, in-text citations, in-text citations, formatted sometimes usually properly always properly properly formatted formatted formatted Project Planning Limited use of Some good use of Good use of class Very efficient use (Time time during class class time and/or time and project of class time and Management) and/or project good use of time completed by the project entirely comes in late outside of class to due date completed by the get project in on due date time TOTAL /28
MARKING RUBRIC CRITERIA 1 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3 4 Section 1, 2, 3: Historical knowledge of time period; knowledge of position; choosing relevant facts to support main argument (thesis) (Knowledge/ Understanding) X2 Displays limited understanding of few historical concepts; only a few facts of limited relevance were chosen to support the main argument Displays moderate understanding of some historical concepts; many facts were chosen to support the main argument; some facts were more relevant than others Displays substantial understanding of most historical concepts; many facts were chosen to support the main argument Displays thorough understanding of all historical concepts; the most convincing evidence, examples, & relevant facts were chosen to support the main argument Venn Diagram & Conclusion: Analysis, assessment of ideas, concepts from sources; formulation of a clear, viable main argument (thesis) in response to reflective question/statement/ topic (Thinking/Inquiry) X2 Displays limited analysis; Information is limited and not much thought went into the presentation of these ideas Displays some analysis; Information is present and some thought went into the presentation of these ideas Displays moderate analysis; Information is clear and thought went into the presentation of the ideas Displays thorough & insightful analysis; Information is thorough and the placement of the is out and accurate Communicating Ideas (Communication) Rarely explains with clarity & precision; visually not appealing and/or not all elements included Occasionally explains with clarity & precision; occasional visuals and some organization evident Usually explains with clarity & precision; good organization and appropriate choices for images Consistently explains ideas with clarity & precision; strong visuals, clear, and thoughtfully chosen Depth of Research; Citation of sources (Application) Limited evidence of research; few sources and/or citations, not properly formatted Some evidence of research; limited number of sources and/or in-text citations, sometimes properly formatted Clear evidence of research; sufficient number of sources and/or in-text citations, usually properly formatted Evidence of considerable research; many sources and/or in-text citations, always properly formatted Project Planning (Time Management) Limited use of time during class and/or project comes in late Some good use of class time and/or good use of time outside of class to get project in on time Good use of class time and project completed by the due date Very efficient use of class time and project entirely completed by the due date TOTAL /28
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