Name: ______________________________

Block: ______________
Stories of America Rubric

Collaboration

Communication

Critical Thinking

5
Product shows
substantial evidence
of meaningful
collaboration with
peers in order to
articulate, support,
and refine
conceptions of
America through
literary texts and
original artifacts.

4
Product reflects
limited, but
meaningful,
collaboration with
peers in order to
articulate, support,
and refine
conceptions of
America through
literary texts and
original artifacts.

Product
demonstrates
effective
communication
through the
composition,
revision, and
production of an
original story using
both digital media
and written
communication.

Product
demonstrates
adequate
communication
through the
composition,
revision, and
production of an
original story using
both digital media
and written
communication.

Product shows
substantial evidence
of critical thinking,
engagement and
evaluation of
conceptions of
America displayed in
canonical works of
American literature
and other texts.

Product reflects
limited evidence of
critical thinking,
engagement and
evaluation of
conceptions of
America displayed in
canonical works of
American literature
and other texts.

3
Product reflects
collaboration with
peers, but this
collaboration may
not be meaningful in
the articulation,
support, and
refinement of
conceptions of
America through
literary texts and
original artifacts.
Product reflects
adequate
communication
through the
composition of an
original story using
both digital media
and written
communication. The
product fails to
demonstrate
effective revision, or
production
strategies.
Product reflects
consideration
canonical works of
American literature
and other texts, but
does not
demonstrate critical
thinking or
engagement with
these texts.

2
Product reflects
minimal and
insubstantial
collaboration with
peers in order to
articulate, support,
and refine
conceptions of
America through
literary texts and
original artifacts.

1
Product does not
suggest collaboration
with peers in order
to articulate,
support, and refine
conceptions of
America through
literary texts and
original artifacts.

Product reflects
inadequate
communication
strategies, limited by
the omission of
effective revision, or
production strategies
in digital media and
written
communication.

Product reflects
inadequate
communication
strategies, failing to
revise or effectively
produce digital
media and/or written
communication.

Product alludes to
various conceptions
of America, but does
not consider specific
canonical works or
other texts.

Product does not

consider or respond
to any other
conceptions of
America found in
canonical literature
or other texts.

Name: ______________________________
Product clearly
reflects the unique
interests and
personality of the
student,
demonstrating
Creativity
creativity and
innovation in the
production of an
authentic portrayal
of America and/or
the American Dream.

Product Design

Compliance to
Guidelines

Product is
aesthetically
coherent and user
friendly, employing
digital tools to
enhance content and
facilitate access to
ideas.
Project is completed
and submitted on or
before the due date.

Block: ______________
Product is minimally
Product is an
different from other
unauthentic
existing conceptions
portrayal of America
of the American
and/or the American
Dream. The students Dream. Artifacts do
voice in evident, but
not represent a
not in a substantial
creative or
or meaningful way.
innovative approach.

Product suggests the

general interests or
beliefs of the
students,
demonstrating
creativity in the
production of an
authentic portrayal
of America and/or
the American Dream.

Product represents
an authentic
portrayal of America
and/or the American
Dream, but does not
reflect the unique
interests or
background of the
student.

Product is
aesthetically
coherent. Digital
tools do not
enhance, but do not
interfere with the
content of artifacts.

Products aesthetics
and design do not
enhance the content
of the artifacts.
Student does not
make effective use of
digital tools.

Products aesthetics
or design detract
from the audiences
experience of the
artifacts content.

Products aesthetics
and design are
detrimental to the
audiences
experience and
interpretation of the
artifacts content.

Project is completed
and submitted within
a class period of the
due date.

Project is submitted
almost fully complete
on the due date.

Project is submitted
almost fully complete
within a class period
of the due date.

Project is not
completed or
submitted within a
class period of the
due date.