Assessments

Day 1 President Facts Paragraph - Checklist

Items

Yes/No

Students stayed on task while writing their

paragraph.

Students included a topic sentence.

Students included accurate facts about their
president.

Students wrote a grammatically correct

paragraph with few spelling errors.

Students were able to find their own errors

and mistakes while reading their paragraph
aloud.

Day 2 Media Presentations - Rubric

CATEGORY

Content Accuracy

All content
throughout the
presentation is
accurate. There
are no factual
errors.

Most of the
content is
accurate but there
is one piece of
information that is
inaccurate.

The content is
generally
accurate, but one
piece of
information is
clearly inaccurate.

Content is
typically confusing
or contains more
than one factual
error.

Spelling and
Grammar

Presentation has
no misspellings or
grammatical
errors.

Presentation has
1-2 misspellings
and grammatical
errors.

Presentation has
3-4 misspellings
and grammatical
errors.

Presentation has
more than 5
misspellings and
grammatical
errors.

Use of Graphics

All images
support the
theme/content of
the presentation
and makes
excellent use of
font, color, effects,
etc. to enhance
the presentation.

All images but one

support the
theme/content of
the presentation
and makes good
use of font, color,
effects, etc. to
enhance the
presentation.

A few images do
not seem to
support the
theme/content of
the presentation.
Makes use of font,
color, effects, etc.
but occasionally
these detract from
the presentation
content.

No images
support the
theme/content
and the use of
font, color,
graphics, effects
etc. often detracts
from the
presentation
content.

Requirements

All requirements
are met and
exceeded.

One requirement
was not
completely met.

Two requirements Two or more

were not
requirements
completely met.
were not
completely met.

Score__________ / 16

Day 3 Venn Diagram Observation Notes

The teacher will write notes based on observations made of the students during the activity.