U.S. involvement in country is innacurately summarized, or essential information missing.
Summary of U.S. involvement in country has minor errors, or some information missing.
Accurate summary of U.S. involvement in country.
Accurately summarized the U.S. involvement in country and added your own insights.
Structure
Team's work is not logically or effectively structured.
Team should have put greater effort into organizing the product.
Team ligically organized the product and made good connections between ideas.
Information is logically and creatively organized with smooth transitions.
Visual
Reveals little understanding, since key characters, events places are not pictured, and/or website is poorly organized.
Lacks a satisfactory visual representation, since either key events, places, persons are not visually represented OR website is poorly designed.
Reveals a basic understanding of the episode by developing a conventional visual representation.
Reveals an in-depth understanding of the episode by developing a unique, thoughtful and creative visual representation.
Documentation
Team clearly failed to cite sources.
Team needs to use greater care in documenting sources. Documentation was poorly constructed.
Team documented all sources.
Team documented all sources, including visuals, sounds, and animations, in-text. Documentation is error free.
Presentation
Team was clearly not prepared to present their story. Product does not effectively communicate research findings.
Team members are reading notes off of paper or website and do not appear confident about what they are saying. Team needs to work on communicating more effectively.
Team appears to be well prepared and effectively communicated the results of their research to the audience.
Team is well prepared and delivers presentation effectively and creatively to convey their conclusions. Product displays creativeity and originality.
Analysis
Merely reiterates facts, but does not offer analysis or interpretation of the episode. No judgement is made about the credibility of sources cited, and/or research is limited to excerpts haded out in class.
Demonstrates only minimal understanding of the episode, and little understanding of the credibility of the resources, and/or limited variety of resources consulted.
Team offers an accurate analysis of the episode, and offered information from a variety of credible sources.
Team offers in-depth analysis and interpretation of the episode; clearly distiguishes between evidence and opinion, and offered primary resources.
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