Evaluation
The journal entries, newpaper project, presentation, and group participation will be assessed by the use of a rubric. Each assignment will be assessed out of 20 possible points. Students will receive an individual grade for their journal entry and group participation. Students will receive a group grade for the newspaper project and presentation. Students may earn a maximum of 80 points for this unit. A unit grade will be figured, for each student, by taking the percentage of points earned over the total points possible.
Unit Rubric
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Journal Entry (I)
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Newspaper (G)
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Presentation (G)
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Participation (I)
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20 pts
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Written from the perspective of the assigned role. All questions are answered and are very clear and show evidence of thought, reflection, and understanding. Shows that student has put a lot of time and effort into project. | Information is accurate. The newspaper is interesting, informative and easily read. Proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling are evident. The newspaper has a title that give an idea of what is in the newspaper. | Each group member contributes to the presentation. Newspaper is presented and main ideas are communicated to the class. | Willingly participated and interacted within the group on all days. Willingly contributed to all the WebQuest assignments. Obviously put in effort to make their their group and projects run smoothly. |
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15 pts
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Written from the perspective of the assigned role. All questions are answered, but some are not clear or do not show evidence of thought, reflection, or understanding. Shows that student has put time and effort into project. | Information is mostly accurate. The newspaper is interesting, informative and easily read. Proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling are evident. The newspaper has a title. | Each group member contributes to the presentation. Newspaper is presented. Group lacks on communication of main ideas to the class. | Willing participated and interacted within the group on most days. Willingly contributed to all the WebQuest assignments. Put in effort to make their group and projects run smoothly. |
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10 pts
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May or may not be written from the perspective of the assigned role. Most questions are answered. Some may not be clear or do not show evidence of thought, reflection, or understanding. Seems like student could have put more time and effort into assignment. | Information is mostly accurate. The newspaper is mostly interesting, informative, and easily read. Proper grammar, punctuation and spelling are evident in some sections of the newspaper. The newspaper has a title. | Each group member may or may not contribute to the presentation. Newspaper is presented. Group lacks on communication of main ideas to the class. | Participated and interacted within the group on most days. Contributed to all the WebQuest assignments. May not have put in adequate effort to make their group and projects run smoothly. |
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5 pts
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Is not written from the perspective of the assigned role. Most questions are not answered and the questions that are are unclear. Seems like student could have put more time into project. | A lot of the information is not accurate. The newspaper is not very interesting, informative, and is hard to read. Several sections of the newspaper have problems with grammar, punctuation, and spelling. The newspaper may or may not have a title. | At least half of the members in the group did not contribute to the presentation. Newspaper may or may not have been presented. Group lacks on communication of main ideas to the class. | Did not participate and interact within the groups on most days. Did not contribute to all WebQuest assignments. Did not put in adequate effort to make their group and projects run smoothly. |
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0 pts
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Is not written from the perspective of the assigned role. None of the questions are answered. Seems like students spent very little time on project. -OR- Project is not turned in. |
Most of the information is not accurate. The newspaper is not interesting or informative and is hard to read. There are many grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors. The newspaper may or may not have a title -OR- Project is not turned in. |
Not all group members contribute to the presentation. Newspaper may or may not be presented. Main ideas are unorganized and there is an evident lack of thought and understanding about the material. -OR- Did not participate in the presentation. |
Did not participate and interact within the groups on any days. Did not contribute to all WebQuest assignments. Did not make their group and projects run smoothly -OR- Did not participate in the WebQuest project. |