Current Events Presentation 4 - Excellent 3 - Good 2 - Fair

Rubric
Delivery • Holds attention of audience • Some use of direct • Displays minimal eye
with use of direct eye eye contact with contact with
contact, seldom audience, returns audience, while
looking at notes, is to notes reading mostly
confident with all occasionally, from the notes and
material only confident has little
with some confidence in
• Speaks with appropriate material material 

volume and inflection
to maintain attention
 • Speaks with volume • Speaks too quietly or
but limited too loudly with
inflection little or no
inflection

Content/Connections
• Provides clear purpose and • Has somewhat clear
subject; includes
examples, facts, and/or
statistics; supports
conclusions/ideas with
evidence
• Discusses relevance to unit
material and makes
clear connections for
classmates to
• Attempts to define
purpose and purpose and
subject; some subject; provides
examples, facts, 
 weak examples,
and/or statistics facts, and/ or
that support the statistics, which do
subject; includes not adequately
some data or support the subject;
evidence that includes limited
supports data or evidence 

 understand conclusions • Little or no connection
explained between
• Provides connections content and unit,
with limited weak connections
explanation to made
classmates

Enthusiasm/Awareness • Demonstrates strong • Shows some • Shows little or mixed

enthusiasm and enthusiastic feelings about the
position about topic feelings about topic being
during entire topic and has presented, doesn’t
presentation 
 somewhat clear not choose a clear
position position on the
• Significantly increases throughout topic 

audience understanding presentation
and knowledge of • Raises audience
topic; convinces an Raises audience awareness and
audience to recognize awareness about chosen knowledge of few
the validity of their case/topic with most points 

position and points
importance of the
subject