Story Book Project - Rubric

World History: Story Book Project – Rubric

1.  In this project you must include:

a.  Cover page & Title for project – one sheet of paper

·  Title of your story relates to where your group time traveled

·  All the names/group members is clearly written on the outside cover with assigned role

ü  Name 1 – story writer

ü  Name 2 – Timeline creator

ü  Name 3 – Art/Visuals/Illustrations

ü  Name 4 – Song Translator

b.  Class Period clearly seen on cover page

2.  Format

a.  Minimum 5 sheets of paper stapled together – more is recommended

·  EACH SHEET OF PAPER MUST HAVE THE NAME OF THE PERSON WHO CREATED IT ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER OF THE PAGE

b.  Story writer : on her/his sheet[s] of paper

·  General Information - Writes a story of a group of students who use their cell phones to time travels to 5 specific dates and places

·  Specific Information – writes the story in a dialogue format, all persons in the group must be discussing what they are seeing, hearing, feelings, and understanding about what is happening

·  Test information and word wall terms must be mentioned in the conversations

c.  Timeline Creator: on his/her sheet[s] of paper

·  Chooses 5 specific dates – B.C. and/or A.D. – that the group travels to.

·  Writes beside each date 5 Ws notes – who, what, when, where, why

·  Using the same 5 dates, briefly writes – 1 to 2 sentences – about 5 other places she/he traveled to: Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and/or Russia

d.  Art/Visuals/Illustrations: on his/her sheet[s] of paper

·  Draws, prints and pastes, cuts and pastes images of people, buildings, rivers and/or other geographic features of the places the group time travels to

·  Underneath or beside each art/visual/illustration a caption must be written that explains what the image is all about

e.  Song Translator : on her/his sheet[s] of paper

·  Writes the name of the song and singer/group

·  Writes new lyrics that replaces the original lyrics of the song

·  New lyrics must be related to the place the group time traveled to.

·  New lyrics must contain test information and/or word wall terms and use them correctly

Quality – 70 points
65 points
60 points
50 or less / ·  Follows format completely, mostly, adequately, inadequately
·  Demonstrates creativity, thoroughness, competence, incompetence
Quantity – 30 points
25 points
20 points
10 or less / ·  Contains abundant, essentially, satisfactory, unsatisfactory test information or word wall terms information