Grade 11 Economics Scrapbook Assignment

Economic life – of your community, your province, Canada, and the world – is continually changing. Keeping up to date with these changes is important. One of the best sources of information is your newspaper. In it, you will find current information and opinion on nearly every topic and issue discussed in the textbook.

To provide yourself with a file of information on economic information on economic events as they happen, clip out or print items that you find interesting and informative and file them according to the chapter headings in the textbook. In this way, when you are dealing with a particular chapter you will have clippings to supplement the information and opinions that arise in classroom work and discussion. Paste the clippings into a scrapbook and give a summary of how the clipping is connected to the chapter theme in a minimum of 25 words.

Your scrapbook should have:

  • a cover page showing the theme of economics
  • an index showing all the strands & chapters covered in sequential order
  • a separate page for each strand & chapter with a minimum of one clipping per chapter
  • a connecting summary with 4 bolded key terms (show their meaning) beneath the title of the chapter.

Thoroughness, creativity & colourfulness, organization and quality will be graded based on the rubric below.

Good sources for clippings are the following:

The Markham Economist

Macleans

Grading Scheme

  1. Thoroughness20 marks
  2. Creativity and Colourfulness10 marks
  3. Organization10 marks
  4. Quality of Clippings and Summaries10 marks

Total50 marks

Due Date: Friday January 19th, 2018

Note: Scrapbook Checks will occur at the end of each unit in your organizer
Value: 15% of Final Grade (12.5% Final Product / 2.5% Scrapbook Checks)
Presentation Exemplar – Scrapbooks can be created in electronic or hardcopy form

Grade 11 Economics Scrapbook Rubric

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Criteria

/ Level 1 (50-59) / Level 2 (60-69) / Level 3 (70-79) / Level 4 (80-100) / Mks
Thoroughness / some chapters have a minimum of one article / image with a connecting summary / most chapters have a minimum of one article / image with a connecting summary / all chapters have a minimum of one article / image with a connecting summary / all chapters have a minimum of one article / image with a connecting 25 word summary / /20
Creativity & Colorfulness / limited images and use of colour & design make for a less than appealing scrapbook in most areas from the cover, index, unit and chapter title pages / some good images and use of colour & design, but overall not enough to draw readers to the scrapbook / good images and use of colour & design make for an appealing scrapbook in most areas from the cover, index, unit and chapter title pages / exceptional images and superb use of colour & design make for an appealing scrapbook in all areas from the cover, index, unit and chapter title pages / /10
Organization / No pages are numbered and the index is incomplete or incorrectly organized. Few chapters and units have title pages. / Some pages are numbered and correctly correspond with an index showing chapter & unit titles in order.
Some chapters & units are partitioned with title pages. / Most pages are numbered and correctly correspond with an index showing chapter & unit titles in order.
Most chapters & units are partitioned with title pages. / All pages are numbered and correctly correspond with a detailed index showing chapter & unit titles in correct order.
Every chapter & unit is partitioned with title pages. / /10
Quality of Clippings & Summaries / articles & images lack relevancy to chapter themes and the 25 word summaries inconsistently connect 1 bolded chapter key term to the articles / images / articles & images are somewhat relevant to chapter themes and the 25 word summaries sometimes connect 2 bolded chapt’r key terms to the articles / images / articles & images are mostly relevant to chapter themes and the 25 word summaries connect 3 bolded chapter key terms to the articles / images / all articles and images are highly relevant to chapter themes and the 25 word summaries affectively connect 4 bolded chapter key terms to the articles / images / /10
Totals / /50

Additional Comments:

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