Name: ______

Current Event Graphic Organizer

Topic of the article:
Who was involved? / When did it occur?
What happened? / Where did it occur?
Event Type:
c  Local: Ansbach or Base News
c  National: Somewhere in Germany
c  Homeland: USA news
c  World: Outside of the USA &
Germany / Why I picked this article?

Citation
Name of article: ______

Where I found it: ______

Publication date: ______

Take all this information and write, in paragraph format,
a summary incorporating all this information.

CURRENT EVENT NEWSPAPER RUBRIC

0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
Article / No article / Partial article only / Full article
Web / No web included / Missing major topic and/or supporting details / Incomplete or inadequate web / Adequate web, could use more detail / Complete and accurate web containing all details
Citations / No mention of article, newspaper, and/or date / Missing 2+ of: article, newspaper, and/or date / Missing only one: article, newspaper and date / Article, newspaper and date included, but not formatted correctly / Article, newspaper and date included, formatted correctly
Event / Does not identify article as world, national, or local event / Incorrectly identifies article as world, national, or local event / Identifies article as world, national, or local event
Summary / Did not include a summary / Used own words to answer at least 1: who, what, where, when and why / Used own words to answer at least 3: who, what, where, when and why / Used own words to answer at least 4: who, what, where, when and why / Used own words to answer who, what, where, when and why
Reasoning / Did not include a reason for article selection / No reasoning for article selection / Some reasoning for article selection / Adequate reasoning for article selection / Convincing reasoning for why article was selected
Overall / Of 24

Writing Rubrics

Ideas / 1-6
Organization / 1-6
Voice / 1-6
Word Choice / 1-6
Sentence Fluency / 1-6
Conventions / 1-6
Presentation (neatness) / 1-6

Grade is applied to Social Studies & or Language Arts

Current Event Form and rubric\4/22/2010