Community/School Events Newsletter
Start with a blank word document and create a newsletter that tells people about upcoming events at your school. Ideas to include are: Baseball games, soccer games, community service events such as Relay for Life, Bingo for Babies, progress reports coming out, school holidays, etc. If you are looking for information use the school calendar and the district calendar on the school and district website. Another idea is to use the FBLA’s program of work to create a newsletter to tell of upcoming FBLA events. Include a Smart/art graphic.
Criteria / 25Exceeds the Standard / 20
Meets the Standard / 15
Below Standard
Needs Improvement / 10
Below the Standard
Format / Newsletter has nameplate, an issue information line, ruled lines above and below the nameplate/banner; 3 columns in body; a horizontal ruled line below the three columns; changes back to 1 column; includes vertical lines between all columns; margins are .75”; subheading are utilized; color is consistent throughout; Smart art graphic is included. / Contains all but one of criteria in Exceeds the standard. / Contains all but two of the criteria in Exceeds the Standard. / Missing three or more elements in Exceeds the Standard.
Content / All words are spelled correctly; no grammatical errors. / Contains no more than one misspelled word or grammatical error. / Contains no more than two spelling or grammatical errors. / Contains three or more spelling or grammatical errors.
Creativity / Newsletter shows thought and creativity. / Newsletter shows no thought or creativity.
Graphics / Includes graphic that includes at least 5 of these techniques: grouping, resizing, cropping, scaling, rotating, positioning, shading, 3_D, shadowing, shadowing. / Includes only 4 of the techniques outlined in Exceeds Standard. / Includes only 3 of the techniques outlined in Exceeds Standard. / Includes less than 3 of the techniques outlined in Exceeds Standard.