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Internet Use

Successfully uses suggested internet links to find information and navigates within these sites easily without assistance.

Usually able to use suggested internet links to find information and navigates within these sites easily without assistance.

Occasionally able to use suggested internet links to find information and navigates within these sites easily without assistance.

Needs assistance or supervision to use suggested internet links and/or to navigate within these sites.

Notes

Cornell Notes are recorded and organized in an extremely neat and orderly fashion. 

Cornell Notes are recorded legibly and are somewhat organized.

Cornell Notes are recorded.

Notes are recorded only with peer/teacher assistance and reminders and may not fit the Cornell Note format.

Paragraph Construction

All paragraphs include introductory sentence, explanations or details, and concluding sentence that explains the effect each event had on The Revolutionary War.

Most paragraphs include introductory sentence, explanations or details, and concluding sentence that explains the effect each event had on The Revolutionary War.

Paragraphs included related information but were typically not constructed well.

Paragraphing structure was not clear and sentences were not typically related within the paragraphs.

Diagrams & Illustrations

Diagrams and illustrations are neat, accurate and add to the reader's understanding of the topic.

Diagrams and illustrations are accurate and add to the reader's understanding of the topic.

Diagrams and illustrations are neat and accurate and sometimes add to the reader's understanding of the topic.

Diagrams and illustrations are not accurate OR do not add to the reader's understanding of the topic.