Project+Rubric

Rubric for Fictional Immigrant Autobiography

In small groups (three to four students), the students will be researching and interviewing immigrants and/or descendants of immigrants. They will be finding information on cultural customs, lifestyles, and ethnic foods from designated regions of the world. Students have the option of role-playing fictional immigrants from all over the world. For students taking foreign languages, it is highly suggested that students choose countries of origin respective to the foreign language being taken. This project will also be related and be linked to the students’ math classes. Census data and other statistics will be taken and analyzed through data analysis. The students’ language arts classes will also be involved in the culmination and contribution to the final piece for presentation. This will be done through students being responsible for quality written assignments and journal reactions.

In addition to the following rubric, points will be awarded on creativity and presented teamwork. Quality presentation is to be done across all fields of the assignment. Culture is to be discussed in terms of the main or narrating characters. The point of view on surrounding cultures should also be depicted. Aspects of daily life should be discussed as well as lifelong goals and hardships that these fictional characters face.

Social Studies Project Points

Representation || Appropriate selection of graphical representation of information. Three to four areas of well explained and informative statistical data. || Appropriate graphing, yet two areas of statistical data. || Graphical representation is poor with few statistical data. || No Graph or Charts to represent the findings with one statistical data. || References || Accurately describes at least three cultural differences between the country being studied and the Untied States, explaining the difficulties you would face as an immigrant in the U.S. because of the differences. || Only two cultural differences are described and explained or three are referenced, but not explained accurately or are insufficiently explained. || Cultural differences are described, but no explanations are given about the difficulties they would cause. Differences are just listed. || No cultural references at all. ||
 * || 3 || 2 || 1 || 0 ||
 * Grammar/Usage || 3 or fewer grammatical and usage errors || 4-6 grammatical and usage errors || 7-9 grammatical and usage errors || 10+ grammatical and usage errors ||
 * Statistics data and Graphical
 * Statistics data and Graphical
 * Cultural
 * MLA Formatting || MLA citations are present and correctly formatted || MLA citations are present but have minor formatting errors || MLA citations are limited, or multiple formatting errors || No MLA citations or incorrectly formatted. ||