Sanford_Rubric_Fall 2013

Constitution Module Blog Reflection Rubric

Module Goal: Students will understand and reflect on how the Bill of Rights and the
creation of the three branches of government helped shape our Constitution and our
nation.
Learning Objective 4: After completing the necessary learning activities for the module, students will
reflect on their learning using Blogger to discuss insights and important takeaways from the module
with at least one connection to their real life or current events.

Criteria

Key
module
concepts
summarize
d in the
blog

Accurately &
thoroughly
summarizes and
analyzes all key
concepts of the
module including the
Bill of Rights, 3
branches of
government, and
checks & balances.

Blog entry contains

evidence of personal
response and
Personal
reflection to issues
response
and topics in readings
and
an discussion posts
interpretati
that show students
on of key
growth and change of
concepts
thinking throughout
the module.

Connection
to real
world
events

Student makes a
strong connection to
a topic from the
module to a real
world event or
problem and provides
thorough a strong
support for its
importance and

Partially
summarizes all
key concepts of
the module
including the Bill
of Rights, 3
branches of
government,
and checks &
balances.

Partially
summarizes
some of the key
concepts of the
module, but not
all of the topics
are covered.

Summary of the
key elements
are not present
in students
blog.

Blog entry
contains little
evidence of
personal
response and
reflection to
issues and topics
in readings and
discussion posts.

Blog entry
contains no
evidence of
personal
response and
reflection to
issues and
topics in
readings and
discussion posts

Blog entry
contains
evidence of
personal
response and
reflection to
issues and
topics in
readings and
discussion posts
that show true
reflection of the
topics.
Student makes a
connection to a
topic from the
module to a real
world event or
problem with a
little support
about its
relevance.

Student makes a
connection to a
topic from the
module to a real
world event, but
does not provide
support for its
relevance.

Student fails to
make a
connection to a
real world news
story or topic.

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relevance to our
nation.

Incorporati
on of multimedia

Grammar/
mechanics

Student incorporates
at least 2 videos or
photos related to the
topics described in
his/her blog post
Blog entry has no
grammatical errors
and strong sentence
structure

Student
incorporates at
least 1 video or
photo related to
the topics
described in
his/her blog post

Student
incorporates at
least 1 video or
photo, but has
little relevance to
the topics
described in
his/her blog post

Student does
not include any
multi-media
elements into
the blog entry

1-2 grammatical
errors were
found in the
entry

3-4 grammatical
errors were found
in the blog entry

4 or more
grammatical
errors were
found.