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Civil War Newspaper Project Civil War Newspaper Project Students will create a Civil War era newspaper. The students will include: a Title, 2 news stories, 2 feature stories, pictures with captions, headlines and bylines. Students will be graded on the ability to follow directions, content of the articles, creativity, presentation, and overall neatness. This project will constitute three grades: ELA - Writing, Social Studies, and Technology Rubric Code: L96526 By teachmore Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: History Type: Writing Grade Levels: 6-8, 9-12

Overall newspaper
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 3 pts	Excellent 4 pts
News Articles Content 20 % 2 articles	Poor The articles were not historically accurate and/or did not answer the 5W questions; missing an article	Fair The articles contained some historically accurate facts and answered most of the 5W questions.	Good The articles were historically accurate, and answered all of the 5W/1H questions.	Excellent The articles were historically accurate, answered all of the 5W/1H questions, and exceeded expectations.
News Articles Length/Grammar 10 %	Poor The articles have only one paragraph and are poorly written.	Fair The articles were two or three paragraphs long, contained spelling/grammar errors and writing was just fair.	Good The articles have at least three paragraphs but contained a few spelling/grammar errors. Writing was good.	Excellent The articles have at least three paragraphs or more, contained less than two spelling/grammar errors, and writing was excellent.
Feature Story Content 20 % 2 Articles	Poor The articles were not historically accurate and/or did not include elements of a feature story	Fair The articles contained some historically accurate facts and contained some elements of a feature story	Good The articles were historically accurate and contained at least four elements of a feature story	Excellent The articles were historically accurate, contained all of the elements of a feature story and exceeded expectations
Feature Story Length/Grammar 10 %	Poor The articles have only one paragraph and are poorly written.	Fair The articles were two or three paragraphs long, contained spelling/grammar errors and writing was just fair.	Good The articles have at least three paragraphs but contained a few spelling/grammar errors. Writing was good.	Excellent The articles have at least three paragraphs or more, contained less than two spelling/grammar errors, and writing was excellent.
Photos/Captions 10 % One photo with a caption for EACH article	Poor No photos or captions were included.	Fair At least one photo/caption related to an article was included.	Good Four photos/captions related to articles were included.	Excellent More than four photos/captions related to articles were included.
Title/Headlines and Bylines 10 % For EACH article	Poor No title; No headlines and/or bylines were included	Fair Missing an element: Title and/or headlines and/or bylines	Good Title, headlines, and bylines were included that related to the accompanying article.	Excellent Exceptional title, headlines, and bylines were included that related to the accompanying article.
Presentation/Neatness 10 %	Poor Newspaper appears thrown together and/or not laid out logically with white spaces that articles, etc. could fit into	Fair Newspaper is not laid out properly with the correct amount of columns, articles, photos, headlines, and bylines.	Good Newspaper is neatly laid out with correct amount of columns, articles, photos, headlines, and bylines aligned properly with some empty spaces.	Excellent Newspaper is neatly laid out with columns, articles, photos, headlines, and bylines aligned properly with NO spaces.
Creativity 5 %	Poor The newspaper shows little creativity.	Fair The newspaper shows some creativity.	Good The newspaper shows a significant amount of creativity.	Excellent The newspaper has exceeded expectations for creativity.
Extras 5 % Advertisements, Classifieds, etc.	Poor No extras were included	Fair At least one extra was included but was not done properly.	Good At least one extra was included. It was relevant and done well.	Excellent More than one extra was included. They were relevant and exceeded expectations.

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