President Project Rubric

Name ______Class ______

President ______Event ______

PointsPoints

AttemptedEarned

(2 pts) Word Search Puzzle
  • at least 15 words that relate to your president/event and answer key
OR
(2 pts) Crossword Puzzle
  • at least 10 questionsthat relate to your president/event and answer key

(2 pts) Collage
  • you must have at least 15 pictures with captions
pictures must relate to your president and his key event(s)
(2 pts) Map
  • label important cities, geographic features, and landmarks
  • include a map key

(3 pts) Political Cartoon
  • the cartoon clearly illustrates a specific opinion

(3 pts) Campaign Poster
  • the poster includes a slogan, pictures, and 3-4 bullet points that explain major issues from that election

(2 pts) Fake Facebook page or bio box
  • complete picture of your president’s life including birthday, hometown, family, education, political party, cabinet, other jobs, personal interests
  • Creative

(3 pts) Timeline
  • at least 8 important events
  • Equal Intervals on your timeline

(2 pts) Quote
  • Minimum two paragraphs
  • When, where, and why quote was said
  • Your reaction

(3 pts) Letter to Editor
  • Opinion based letter to an editor of a newspaper about his presidency or about the event you chose

(3 pts) Song Parody
  • at least 10 lines
  • recorded

(___ pts) OTHER-list what you did , must have permission from
teacher to count
(4 pts) News Article
  • includes specific details about the event (who, what, where, when, why, how)
  • Includes headline
  • Proper format (lead paragraph 1 sentence, 1-3 sentence paragraphs, no opinions just facts)

(4 pts) Biography
  • write a detailed account about the life of your president; cover the following topics:
  • personal background
  • early political experiences
  • the presidency
  • after presidency

(2 pts) Photo Story/Movie
  • create a Photo Story or movie about your president
  • include all of the components from the biography
  • give details about a key event from your presidency
  • include additional interesting details to support your presentation

(2 pts) Magazine
  • create a magazine about your president; include the following items:
  • cover with a title, picture(s), headline, and sub-headlines
  • presidential biography
  • news article about a key event
  • at least two advertisements for items from that time period

( ___ pts) other formatting-list what you did-must have permission
from teacher
(2 pts) Works Cited Page
  • at least four sources
  • proper MLA format
  • at least one book source
  • ABC-CLIO source

TOTAL

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