Rubric for Cry Freedom Essay

Criteria

Levels of Mastery

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Understanding 

·        Student demonstrates basic understanding of movie and its relation to apartheid

·        Student does not relate movie to Black History Month or own tolerance views, or does so vaguely

·        Student demonstrates adequate understanding of movie and its relation to apartheid

·        Student relates movie to Black History Month and own tolerance views, but needs more development of support

·        Student demonstrates complete understanding of movie and relation to apartheid as well as other segregation policies

·        Student relates movie to Black History Month and own tolerance views with sufficient support

 Logical argument

·        Student demonstrates weak or little logical argument for views

·        Student lacks logical organization of paper

·        Student demonstrates acceptable logical argument for views

·        Student demonstrates some logical organization of paper 

·        Student demonstrates compete logical argument for views

·        Student presents logical organization of paper 

 Presentational accuracy

·        Student does not follow directions for paper set up

·        Student has more than 7 grammatical errors

·        Student fails to document quotations

·        Student lacks annotated bibliography

·         Student follows directions for paper set up

·        Student has 7 –3 grammatical errors

·        Student fails to document quotations properly

·        Student may misinterpret proper format for annotated bibliography

·         Student follows directions for paper set up

·        Student has less than 3 grammatical errors

·        Student documents quotations properly

·        Student properly formats annotated bibliography