German Class Participation Rubric

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Preparation You bring all materials to class. You usually bring all You frequently “forget” to bring You frequently have to ask to borrow for Class Your materials are well organized. materials to class. Your required materials to class. (And/Or) materials. You are rarely ready to You are always ready to work and materials are organized. You Your materials are somewhat begin when the bell rings. You never your “BOP” is out when the bell are usually ready to work and organized You are often not ready to have your “BOP” out when the class rings without being reminded by the your “BOP” is usually out begin when the bell rings nor is your begins (And/Or you rarely have your teacher. when the bell rings. “BOP” out. “BOP”. Frequency of Your hand is always raised and you Your hand is often raised to Your hand is seldom raised to You do not volunteer to contribute to Participation attempt longer, more difficult participate during class participate in class; you only try the the class. responses. activities. “easy ones.” Independence You are always on task during pair You are mostly on task during You sometimes need to be reminded You give minimum effort during pair and group activities the entire time. pair and group activities. to stay on task during group or pair and group activities and are often off activities OR you carelessly rush task. through activities. Quality of You are willing to answer open- You consistently respond in You usually respond with single Your responses are often Participation ended questions in class activities. single complete German words or memorized phrases OR incomprehensible or inappropriate to You elaborate on answers beyond a sentences. You are willing to you respond so infrequently that it’s the situation. OR You refuse to single sentence. You try to elaborate when prompted. difficult to judge your abilities. answer questions” OR you respond to communicate more complex ideas You try to communicate your German with English. and attempt creativity in German. own ideas in German. Listening You actively listen when the teacher You actively listen when the You sometimes listen when the You “tune out” when the teacher and fellow students speak in teacher speaks in German. teacher speaks. You sometimes are begins speaking in German. You rely German. You are consistently able You mostly able to follow able to follow directions given in on other students to tell you what to to follow complex directions and directions and attempt to German, but often have to check to do in English. You are unable to respond to comprehension questions respond to questions after see what other students are doing. respond to questions after listening to after listening to tapes, CDs, video listening to tapes, CDs, video You are only to grasp main ideas tapes, CDs, video, or teacher lectures or teacher lectures in German. or teacher lectures in German. after listening to tapes, CDs, video given in German. or teacher lectures in German. Use of You always use German to respond You mostly use German to You somewhat use German to You speak as little German as German in to the teacher and use German with respond to the teacher and use respond to the teacher and somewhat possible during class, pair and group Class classmates during structured German with classmates use German with classmates during activities. activities. You are also able to during structured activities. structured activities. initiate conversations in German. Accuracy You consistently use correct tense, You mostly use correct tense, You somewhat use correct tense, You rarely or never use correct tense, word choice, subject-verb and noun- word choice, subject-verb and word choice, subject-verb and noun- word choice, subject-verb and noun- adjective agreement. You frequently noun-adjective agreement. adjective agreement. You somewhat adjective agreement. You rarely or self-correct and pay close attention You pay attention to feedback pay attention to feedback and never pay attention to feedback and to feedback and correction. and correction. correction. correction. Score ______/28