Current Event Rubric - Grade 10

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Quality of
Information

Information clearly
relates to the main
topic. It includes
several supporting
detalis or examples

Information clearly
relates to the main
topic. It provides 1-2
supporting details or
examples

Information clearly
relates to the main Information has little
topic. No details and or nothing to do with
or examples are
the main topic
given

Information is
directly taken from
the article without
quotation marks

Mechanics

No grammatical,
spelling, or
puncuation errors

Almost no
grammatical,
spelling, or
punctuation errors

A few grammatical,
spelling, or
puncutation errors

Many grammatical,
spelling, or
punctuation errors

Unreadable

Organization

Information is very
well organized with
constructed
paragraphs, and
topic sentences

Information is well
constructed, may be
one full paragraph
with a topic sentence

Information is not
very well organized
or is lacking a topic
sentence

No organization of
information, but a
topic sentence is
visible

No topic sentence,
and no organization
of information

Length

Summary is at least
10 sentences

Summary is at least 8 Summary is at least 7 Summary is at least 6 Summary is less than

sentences
sentences
sentences
5 sentences

Article

Article is provided
and on topic with
what we have
discussed and the
Summary is typed

Article is provided
and loosely relates to
what we have
discussed and
Summary is typed

Article is provided,
but does not relate
to what we have
discussed in class.
Summary is typed

Article is not
Article is not provide
provided and
or Summary is not
Summary is not
typed
typed