Geologic timescale Flyer Rubric

Teacher Name: Katie Muise

Student Name:

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CATEGORY Attention Grabber

4 - Above Standards The introductory paragraph has a strong hook or attention grabber that is appropriate for the intended audience. All supportive facts are reported accurately.

Accuracy

3 - Meets Standards The introductory paragraph has a hook or attention grabber, but it is weak, rambling or inappropriate for the intended audience. Almost all supportive facts are reported accurately.

2 - Approaching Standards The author has an interesting introductory paragraph but the connection to the topic is not clear.

1Below Standards The introductory paragraph is not interesting AND is not relevant to the topic.

Score

Most supportive facts and are reported accurately.

Most supportive facts and were inaccurately reported. It is not clear who the author is writing for.

Audience

Demonstrates a clear understanding of the designated audience

Demonstrates a general understanding of the designated audience Most sentences are well-constructed and there is some varied sentence structure in the paragraphs Author makes 1-2 errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content.

Demonstrates some understanding of the designated audience

Sentence Structure

All sentences are well-constructed with varied structure.

Most sentences are well Most sentences are constructed, but there is no not wellvariation in structure. constructed or varied.

Grammar & Spelling

Author makes no errors in grammar or spelling that distracts the reader from the content.

Author makes 3-4 errors in grammar or spelling that distract the reader from the content.

Author makes more than 4 errors in grammar or spelling that distracts the reader from the content.

Capitalization & Punctuation

Author makes no errors in capitalization or punctuation.

Author makes 1-2 errors in capitalization or punctuation

Author makes a few errors in capitalization and/or punctuation that catch the reader\'s attention and interrupt the flow.

Organization of Content

Author has all of the information organized according to assignment guidelines Flyer contains at least two different font styles and two different font sizes Flyer has a textbox header with a different theme than the default theme applied to it

Author has most of the information organized according to assignment guidelines Flyer contains only one font size and one font style

Author has some of the information organized according to assignment guidelines

Author makes several errors in capitalization and/or punctuation that catch the reader\'s attention and interrupt the flow. Author has most of the information not organized according to assignment guidelines

Font Size and Font Style

Textbox and Theme

SmartArt

Clip Art/page border

Aesthetic value of Flyer

Flyer has a textbox header but does not have a different theme than the default theme applied to it Flyer contains a Flyer contains a SmartArt graphic that SmartArt Graphic contains the names but does not of three eras and contain the names their fossils of three eras and their fossils Completed Completed assignment has a assignment has a picture from clip art picture from Clip art attached to it that that does not fit fits with the theme of with the theme of the Flyer and a page the flyer and a page border is applied border is applied All of the feature Most of the features used on Microsoft on Microsoft word word were used in a were used in a way way that enhanced that enhanced the the aesthetic value of aesthetic value of the flyer the flyer

Flyer has no textbox header

Flyer does not contain a SmartArt Graphic

Completed assignment does not contain a picture from clip art nor a page border

Some of the features on Microsoft word were used in a way that enhanced the aesthetic value of the flyer

The features on Microsoft word were not used in a way that enhanced the aesthetic value of the flyer

Presentations

Group members clearly identified what the intended audience would see at their museum and were persuasive and convincing

Group members clearly identified what the intended audience would see at their museum but were only somewhat persuasive and convincing

Group members identified most of what the intended audience would see at their museum but were not persuasive nor convincing

Group members did not identify what the intended audience would see at their museum and were neither convincing nor persuasive