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Immigration Diary Historical/Generic Personal Diary Student is to "write" a diary of a generic immigrant (1892-1940) that reflects accurately the experiences a person from this time period could/would have experienced. Use knowledge gained from the text and classroom activities to create the diary entries as you think that person would have experienced. You need to have 4 entries: 1: information about you, your family, the beginning of your journey, your country and the reasons why you want to immigrate. 2: on the way to the USA, on board of the ship, traveling conditions, hopes, worries about the time/situation ahead of you. 3: Ellis Island: The immigration process, experience, things you have seen, things that happened to you, duration of process, description of inspectors. 4: The first day in the USA: new experiences, job search?, things you have experienced or seen....reaction other people towards you Must be STUDENT ORIGINAL. Rubric Code: B39563 By elaames Ready to use Private Rubric Subject: English Type: Assignment Grade Levels: 6-8

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	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Average 3 pts	Good 4 pts	Excellent 5 pts
CONTENT you have to write 4 diary entries and keep in mind the facts	Poor You have only one or two diary entries, and/or you entries are not sufficient, not enough or incorrect information (0-5)	Fair You have three or four short diary entries. Your entries are too short and information is mostly not used or incorrect. Some of it is not comprehensable (10)	Average You have four diary entries of which some are too short. It is visible that you have shown in every diary entry information about the fact learned. Nearly all of it is easy understandable. (15)	Good You have four good diary entries with overall correct information. Your work is clearly visible and on very few parts some information is incorrect or not understandable. (20)	Excellent Historically accurate; appropriate entries for person; amount of information is abundant; this could have been an entry of a real person (25)
ORIGINALITY	Poor (1)	Fair (2)	Average (3)	Good (4)	Excellent Student original; unique & appropriately creative (5)
GRAMMAR	Poor (2)	Fair (4)	Average (6)	Good (8) Not typed but corresponding appropriate length	Excellent (10)Two - three typed pages; diary format; appropriate person
FORMAT	Poor (1)	Fair (2)	Average (3)	Good (4)	Excellent Appropriate entries; fits time period; neat; complete sentences, puctuation, and spelling (5)
LANGUAGE/ VOCABULARY	Poor (2)	Fair (4)	Average (6)	Good (8)	Excellent (10)