Abolitionist Paper Rubric

Below are the required elements for your research paper.

The following questions must be answered about your person:
o What was your persons early life like?
o Why did they choose to become and abolitionist?
o How did they become an abolitionist? (This one may be combined with
the one above)
o How did they fight slavery?
What actions did they take?
What were the results of those actions?
Were they successful? Explain?
o What was their overall impact upon the abolitionist community?
o Why did you choose this person and what did you learn be researching
him/her?
Your paper needs to be a total of at least 6 full paragraphs.:
o One introductory paragraph
o Four body paragraphs
o One concluding paragraph
o Final draft must be typed, double spaced in a 12-point font.
Be sure you fully answer all of these questions while doing your research so
they can be a part of your paper.
CATEGORY
Quality of
Information

Paragraph
Construction

Mechanics

4
Information
clearly relates to
the main topic.
It includes
several
supporting
details and/or
examples.
All paragraphs
include
introductory
sentence,
explanations or
details, and
concluding
sentence.
No grammatical,
spelling or
punctuation
errors.

3
Information
clearly relates to
the main topic.
It provides 1-2
supporting
details and/or
examples.

2
Information
clearly relates to
the main topic.
No details
and/or examples
are given.

1
Information has
little or nothing
to do with the
main topic.

Most
paragraphs
include
introductory
sentence,
explanations or
details, and
concluding
sentence.
Almost no
grammatical,
spelling or
punctuation
errors

Paragraphs
included related
information but
were typically
not constructed
well.

Paragraphing
structure was
not clear and
sentences were
not typically
related within
the paragraphs.

A few
grammatical
spelling, or
punctuation
errors.

Many
grammatical,
spelling, or
punctuation
errors.

Organization

Sources

Information is
very organized
with wellconstructed
paragraphs and
subheadings.
All sources
(information)
are accurately
documented in
the desired
format.

Information is
organized with
well-constructed
paragraphs.

Information is
organized, but
paragraphs are
not wellconstructed.

The information
appears to be
disorganized.

All sources
(information)
are accurately
documented, but
a few are not in
the desired
format.

All sources
(information)
are accurately
documented, but
many are not in
the desired
format.

Some sources
are not
accurately
documented.