Political Cartoon Rubric

Teacher Name: Mr. Onesko

Student Name:

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CATEGORY 4 Creativity

Advanced 3

Proficiency 2 Approaching Proficiency 1

Conditional

Student was very creative in artwork, thinking, arrangement, and overall concept.

Student was fairly creative in their artwork, thinking, arrangement, and overall concept.

Student was somewhat creative in Student was not creative in their their artwork, thinking, arrangement, artwork, thinking, arrangement, or and overall concept. overall concept.

Effort

It is evident that the student spent a lot of time making their cartoon the best they could, cartoon is neat, written words are legible, subject matter is well thought out and appropriate.

Student spent a fair amount of time making their cartoon the best they could, cartoon is neat for the most part, written words are generally legible, subject matter is fairly well thought out and appropriate.

Student spent some time making their cartoon the best they could, some of the cartoon is sloppy, some of the written words are hard to read, some of the subject matter is inappropriate.

Student spent very little time making their cartoon the best they could, cartoon is sloppy, written words are very hard to read, much of the cartoon is inappropriate.

Concept

Student fully understood the concept of the assignment, applied knowledge of subject matter to cartoon; others could easily understand this student's cartoon and views.

Student generally understood the concept of the assignment, applied a large amount of knowledge about subject matter to cartoon, student's views and cartoon could generally be understood by others.

Student somewhat understood concept of assignment, applied some knowledge of subject matter to cartoon, others could understand the concept of cartoon and views some of the time.

Student did not understand concept of assignment, most people could not understand point of cartoon or what student's views were.

Knowledge of Subject Matter

It is evident from the cartoon that the student has great knowledge of subject matter being conveyed and has applied this knowledge very effectively through artwork and written words.

It is fairly evident from the cartoon that the student has knowledge of subject matter being conveyed and has applied this knowledge fairly effectively through artwork and written words.

It is somewhat evident from the cartoon that the student has knowledge of subject matter being conveyed and has somewhat applied this knowledge through artwork and written words.

Student did not demonstrate knowledge of subject matter and has not applied any knowledge through artwork and written words.