This rubric will be used in a couple weeks as a post novel activity. Students will be creating a map of Cape Flattery, Neah Bay, Tatoosh Island - mainly the most northwest point on the Continental United States and just off the coast of WA and into the Pacific Ocean. I have approximately 20 required locations including land, water, and structures that they will need to add to their map. Students will be interviewing other students from the middle school on/near the Makah Native American reservation in WA. From this interview, they will be required to add at least one landmark, body of water, or site of a shipwreck or whale hunt to their maps.
Even though, this evaluation tool exists, I would rather create my own using Microsoft charts or Publisher. I like to add graphics that pertain to a topic or location in the setting of a particular chapter we are reading. We do quite a bit of written response to literature, and I use rubrics to evaluate all projects including writing. I believe rubrics allow the students to see every requirement and have a copy to work from. It becomes a choice they make; they need to learn to evaluate their progress or performance and know that there are consequences for their choices on school projects or writing pieces as well. They know what to do to get an 'A' and they know what not to do to receive a failing or unexceptable score.
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