iRubric: World Issues - Current Events rubric

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World Issues - Current Events Current Event Rubric Criteria for completing current event articles in World Issues-Current Events. Rubric Code: F393B8 By rellison Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: Social Sciences Type: Assignment Grade Levels: 9-12

Current Event Criteria
	Poor 2 pts	Fair 3 pts	Good 4 pts	Excellent 5 pts
Relation to Topic 20 % Article choice is appropriate to topic and international source is used - up to 5 points	Poor Not related to topic.	Fair Very closely related to class topic.	Good Solid relation to topic.	Excellent Excellent relation to topic with in-depth and exceptionally unique article selection.
Summary of Article 40 % Up to 10 points	Poor Plagarism. Copied verbatim from the article.	Fair Moderate summarization of facts with bias.	Good Solid summarization of facts without bias.	Excellent Excellent summarization of facts without bias.
Commentary 40 % Up to 10 points	Poor Lack of persuasive argument of your opinion expressed without factual substantiation.	Fair Moderately persuasive argument of your opinion expressed with factual substantiation based on facts in article and class discussion of topic.	Good Solid persuasive argument of your opinion expressed with factual substantiation based on facts in article and class discussion of topic.	Excellent Exceptionally persuasive argument of your opinion expressed with factual substantiation based on facts in article and class discussion of topic.