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Student Magazine Project Magazine Project Create a magazine cover that looks like a real student magazine designed for Early College High School students. Choose the title of the publication. Include a title, photo of YOU, headline article titles, and dateline. Follow the theme of EARLY COLLEGE STUDENTS. Be creative as well as professional. Be aware of the marketability and audience appeal of your magazine. Keep it interesting to anyone not only students that are already here, but Freshmen and any students interested in attending. Rubric Code: LX77B28 By CRodri1 Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: Journalism Type: Project Grade Levels: 9-12

Magazine Cover
	Great 10 pts	Good 8 pts	Fair 6 pts	Poor 3 pts
Magazine Title	Great Choose a title that can reflect the audience you are trying to reach. It must be school appropriate.	Good Title does not reflect the targeted audience. It is still creative.	Fair Does not follow expectations. OR - it is not creative.	Poor The title does not meet any of the criteria.
Article Headlines	Great Article headlines are interesting bringing the audience into the cover. Readers will be tempted to pick up the magazine to read what is inside. Use this formula - Number or Trigger Word + Adjective + Key Word + Promise Examples: 8 Great Traits for College Success 10 Fun Ways to Use Your AVID Binder to Increase Your GPA	Good Headlines are not interesting and do not pertain to the magazine. Headlines are too long.	Fair Lack of interesting article titles.	Poor No titles
Cover Photo(s)	Great Photo is in focus and utilizes the composition elements. Photo is compelling and brings the reader into the magazine. Photo does not interfere with someone reading the titles of the magazine articles. You should be on the magazine cover. The background should be removed. A new background is created or placed in a layer underneath your photo.	Good Photo is not in focus, it lacks clarity, and/ or the subject matter is not in line with magazine. Photo does not bring reader to the cover.	Fair Photo is of poor quality and does not add to the overall quality of the magazine cover. The photo detracts from the magazine.	Poor Photo is missing. Photo is self portrait. Photo was taken by someone else.
Graphics/Color	Great Colors/graphics are used to add interest to the cover. color is used to effectively bring in reader.	Good Colors/graphics used does not bring in the viewer. The use of colors/graphics are ineffective or overused.	Fair color/graphic used is plain or too busy. It shows no research or sticking to the planned color choices.	Poor colors or graphics are used ineffectively.
Letter Font	Great Letter font shows careful decision making skills. The letter fonts are targeting the audience. They are aligned and contrast with the background.	Good Letter font shows some planning and forethought, keeping the reader in mind.	Fair Letter font shows little research and decision making skills	Poor Letter font shows no research.
Issue date	Great Issue date is conveniently located on publication.	Good Issue and date are located on the front of the publication.	Fair did not follow issue and date expectations.	Poor no Issue, date
Grammar/spelling	Great 0 errors	Good 1 error	Fair 2 errors	Poor more than two errors
Overall professional appearance	Great The magazine cover has a professional appearance and follows the theme for Early College High Schools that is easily grasped by the reader.	Good The magazine cover has a semi-professional appearance. It has some audience appeal.	Fair The magazine cover has an unprofessional appearance, but some interesting points.	Poor The magazine cover has an unprofessional appearance.
Work ethic	Great Magazine cover project was completed before due date.	Good Magazine cover project was completed by due date.	Fair Magazine cover project was completed by due date, but then resubmitted.	Poor Magazine cover project was not completed before due date.
Bar Code	Great The Bar Code is created with the student name and school year and is well placed on the cover. It does not distract from the elements on the cover.	Good There is a Bar Code, but it was not created by the user to include the student name and/or year.	Fair There is a bar code but it was taken from another product. It was not created by the user	Poor There is no bar code on the cover.
Layers	Great Each item is placed in its own layer and is labeled correctly.	Good Each item is placed in its own layer but each layer is not correctly labeled.	Fair There are some layers with multiple items or layers are mislabeled.	Poor There is no evidence of layers.

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