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This rubric is meant to help guide in the creation of your ThingLink presentation project. Each category in the far left column represents a component of the project that will be taken into consideration when calculating the final grade for this assignment. Review the rubric carefully before, during and after the creation of the ThinkLink presentation, to ensure that all intended elements of your ThingLink have been represented and all other criteria have been met.

To use this rubric to evaluate student work on the Hero Movie Maker Project, you should determine the number of points achiedved in each of the 5 categories. Then add the points up for all 5 categories and mulitply by 5. The lowest score possible is a "25" and the highest score is "100." Please note that a score of at least a "3" in a category must be achieved for the quality of the student's work to be considered satisfactory in that category. This Hero Movie Maker Project rubric was adapted from a Photo Story Rubric on the Rubistar website and a Digital Documentary rubric from Teaching Matters, Inc.

Students first create a collage to represent a character’s personality, likes and dislikes, history and background, important moments and events in his/her life, and why this character is important to the novel. Students then turn their collage into a Windows Movie Maker Movie complete with animation and audio.

Students will use a charater from The Outsiders and demonstrate how a character develops throughout the novel; does the character portray character traits that make him/her a flat, round, static, dynamic character through direct and indirect characterization.