Name ____________________________________ Score _______________________________

Your homework (due Wednesday, September 7th ) is to research the ___________

amendment. You will write complete and detailed sentences (using RACE Response)
that answer the questions: What does this amendment say (in kid friendly
terms)? Who does it affect? What year was it ratified? What effect does it
have on the American people? Do you think this amendment serves a good
purpose for American citizens? Why or why not? Include a picture that
represents this amendment. You may want to include how people felt when it
was ratified or what affect it had on the people. You may create your presentation
on poster board, large construction paper, PowerPoint (must bring in CD or
flashdrive; do not email it), video created at home, box or basket of related items,
etc You can go above & beyond by also including a pictoral image & description of
what life would be like without this amendment. You will present your information
to the class so BE CREATIVE!! BE UNIQUE!! Make your presentation stand out!
Here is the
Information
Organization
Presentation
Creativity
grading rubric so
you understand
the criteria:
Grade
5
Information was
Well organized.
Thoughtful and
Clearly
factual and
Clearly
easy to
presented and
specific.
understands the
understand. Well very unique!
Superior
topic
practiced
understanding of
topic (ALL
questions were
thoroughly
answered)
4
Good
Well organized
Thought-out
Neat and
information,
and easy to
presentation and presentable
accurate and
understand
understandable
factual. Good
understanding of
topic (ALL
questions were
answered, but
with bare
minimum
information)
3
Good information Somewhat
Not well thought- Somewhat clear
but not enough
organized but
out, garbled, and presentation
to understand
difficult to
hard to follow
the topic (some
understand
questions were
answered)
2
Not enough
Not organized
Not at all
Disorganized and
information to
and difficult to
practiced and
sloppy
understand the
understand
difficult to
topic. Few facts
understand
1
No information
No organization
Cannot
Disorganized and
on topic.
and cannot
understand at all careless work
No facts
understand topic and poorly done