iRubric: Historical/Generic Personal Diary rubric

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Historical/Generic Personal Diary Historical/Generic Personal Diary Student is to "write" a diary of a fictional person who could have traveled on one of the trails west.This journal or diary from this time period reflects accurately the experiences a person from this time period could/would have experienced. Use knowledge gained from the text and research materials to create the diary entries as you think that person would have experienced. You have literary license to make up appropriate and historically accurate experiences. Must be STUDENT ORIGINAL. Rubric Code: GXWC844 By MrsCKees Draft Public Rubric Subject: History Type: Assessment Grade Levels: K-5, 6-8

DIARY
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Average 3 pts	Good 4 pts	Excellent 5 pts
CONTENT	Poor Inaccurate historically;amount of information is significantly below expectations	Fair Somewhat accurate. amount of information is slightly below expectations	Average Historically accurate;amount is information is satisfactory	Good Historically accurate; amount of information is above average	Excellent Historically accurate; appropriate entries for person; amount of information is abundant
ORIGINALITY	Poor Copied from sources or done by another person	Fair Basic information presented in a typical format	Average Meets grade level expections for the historical journal	Good quite original and creative	Excellent Student original; unique & appropriately creative
REQUIRED ELEMENTS	Poor Missing all or almost all of the required pieces:	Fair Missing most of the required information	Average Entries missing and missing quality information about the journey	Good One entry is missing	Excellent Five dated entries in diary format;sharing experiences and hardships. Entries are at least 5 sentences long.
FORMAT	Poor (2)Some entries inappropriate to time period;more than 13 errors in sentence structure, punctuation, spelling. Bibliography is not included.	Fair (4)Entries may have some minor inaccuracies; 9-12 errors in sentence structure, punctuation, spelling. Bibliography is missing information but is included.	Average (6)Appropriate entries related closely to time period. 5-8 errors in sentence structure, punctuation, spelling. Bibliography has three sources with some errors.	Good (8)Appropriate entries;fit time period; neat; only 1-4errors in sentence structure, punctuation, spelling. Bibliography has three sources.	Excellent Appropriate entries; fit time period; neat; sentence structure, punctuation, and spelling , correct bibliography format with three sources (10)