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Nose for Norse News--Writing a Mythical News Story 
Greek and Roman Mythology Tabloid
Rubric for Culminating Project
Rubric Code: D2CW86
By klarison
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Subject: English  
Type: Writing  
Grade Levels: 6-8

Powered by iRubric A Nose for Norse News--Writing
Students chose a Norse myth to turn into a news story, a feature story, or a sports story.
  Poor

1 pts

Fair

2 pts

Good

3 pts

Excellent

5 pts

Meets Requirements

All 5 requirements are met: (1) an original headline, (2) a current-event type news story, feature, or sports story describing an occurence from a myth, (3) an interview with a character from a myth, (4) a first person account of an event from a myth, and (5) picture(s).
Poor

Tabloid contains 2 or less than the 5 requirements, or the requirements that are there have not been fully completed.
Fair

Tabloid contains at least 3 of the 5 requirements, fully completed.
Good

All 5 of the requirements are fully completed.
Excellent

All 5 requirements are fully completed, and the article also goes above and beyond in creativity.
Grammar

Article follows proper grammatical conventions (ex: proper punctuation, correct sentence structure, correct spelling).
Poor

Many of the proper grammatical conventions are not followed.
Fair

All aspects of the article follow most proper grammatical conventions, but there are a few errors.
Good

All aspects of the article follow proper grammatical conventions.
Excellent

All aspects of the article follow proper grammatical conventions; Some sentences are more complex, and some larger words are used.
Relevance/Accuracy

Article should be relevent to Norse myths with accurate information from the myths.
Poor

Article is hardly relevant at all to the Norse myths. Little, if any, of the information in the articles is accurate information from the myths.
Fair

Article is somewhat relevant to Norse myths-The information in the articles is only somewhat accurate information from myths.
Good

Article is relevant to Norse myths-The information in the articles is accurate information from myths.
Excellent

Articles is relevant to the Norse myths, and combine elements with a creative spin.
Creativity

Article should be original and creative.
Poor

Article has not really been written as a news article about Norse myths with no original spin; it lacks a hook and is uninteresting.
Fair

Article has been written as a news article, but it lacks originality.
Good

Article is original; it has a hook that draws the reader in and is interesting.
Excellent

Article is original; it draws the reader in with a hook, is interesting, and provides an innovative way of looking at Norse myths.
Visual Appeal

Article should be in newspaper format. Article should include pictures.
Poor

Article may or may not be in newspaper form, lacks pictures entirely.
Fair

Article is in newspaper format and does contain pictures, but the pictures are either unclear or unrelevant.
Good

Article is in newspaper format, with clear, correctly cropped, relevant pictures.
Excellent

Article is in newspaper format, with clear, correctly cropped, relevant pictures that ad to the story.



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