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Electronic Road Trip You have a $5000 budget and must take a trip for a minimum of 6 days. On days 2,4,6 you will be given an Uh-Oh or a Yahoo card which you must incorporate into the journal you will keep for each day of the trip. You may be gone up to three weeks if you choose. Your expenses must be kept in a separate document and hyperlinked to you journal. Rubric Code: HX68X4 By mrshuber Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: English Type: Project Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12, Undergraduate

Electronic Road Trip
	Oops! 60 pts	Fair 80 pts	Good 90 pts	Outstanding 100 pts
Journal Content	Oops! One or more days or activities were not addressed.	Fair All days and activities are addressed, and most questions answered with at least one sentence about each	Good All days and activities are addressed and most questions are answered with at least three sentences for each.	Outstanding All days and activites are addressed and all questions have been answered with full paragraphs of at least five sentences each.
Organization of Journal	Oops! Hard to follow and confusing order	Fair Information in organized, but paragraphs need transitions. Difficult to follow the time order of events.	Good Information is easy to follow and the paragraphs are well-constructed with clear topic sentences and transitions.	Outstanding Information is very organized with topic sentences and transition words that leave no doubt about when and where events occurred. Itinerary is chronological and dated. You may have even created a page one summary or itinerary of events of your trip.
Quality of Information	Oops! Information is invented and has no basis in fact.	Fair Information related to the main events of the trip and uses sources that can be verified. Few details or examples are given, however.	Good Information clearly relates to purpose. It provides one or two supporting details and/or examples. At times the reader can see and hear what you see and hear.	Outstanding information clearly relates to main topic. It includes details and examples full of imagery and sensory detail and/or specific examples that can be both imagined and possible. The reader experiences your trip along with you. It's like being there!
Mechanics	Oops! Errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation are a nuisance and a distraction to the reader.	Fair Some errors remain in text, but would not have been caught with spell/grammar checker.	Good Almost no grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors. Those that exist do not distract the reader from the purpose.	Outstanding No grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors. A treat to read!
Diagrams and Illustrations	Oops! Photos and illustrations are not accurate to information provided Or do not add to the reader's understanding of the trip.	Fair Two photos and illustration are neat and accurate and sometimes add to the reader's understanding of the trip.	Good Two photos or illustrations are accurate and add to the reader's understanding of the trip.	Outstanding At least three photos or illustrations are included within the format of the text. You have used tools available in Word to wrap text around picture. You may also have used print screen tool to include a map. Photos have captions or are otherwise identified. Credit is given to origin of photograph copied.
Hyperlinks	Oops! Does not have two hyperlinks for each of six days of trip. Must have twelve total...	Fair Two hyperlinks exist for each of six days, but some are not active or do not work as intended. Hyperlinks are words not URL's.	Good Two working hyperlinks in text (words or pictures). All twelve work and enhance the text. They provide further information and do not repeat what is already in text.	Outstanding Two working hyperlinks for each day. At least one link is a picture hyperlink. The links take me to places of further insight into your textual information. Pictures take me to text that supports the picture.
Use of Uh-oh or Yahoo	Oops! Does not incorporate all of the suprise situations into existing text or plan of trip.	Fair Incorporates the surprise situations, but not believable or imaginative.	Good All surprise situation are addressed, most are successful in their smooth flow into existing text.	Outstanding Successfully incorporates situations into the trip and each of them works to enhance the story of the trip in a new and exciting way.
Finances	Oops! Inaccurate or incomplete financial record. Only minimal mention or summary of expenses in a general way.	Fair Financial record of expenses kept, but inaccuracies or lack of organization make credibility of account questionable.	Good Maintains a financial record, but several items seem to be inaccurate or unaccounted for.	Outstanding Maintains an ordered, accurate accounting of expenses that can be verified. All money is accounted for. Record is linked to main journal; journal is linked to expense account.

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