Colonial Broadsides

For the break, we are completing our colonial broadsides assignment from Tuesday. It will be due on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29th!!!  I have added the rubric for this assignment and also a checklist to keep you on track. 

Element	Superior	Satisfactory	Developing
Layout	100% space used; balanced and true spacing; use of large title and successive articles	85%< space used; balance and spacing true; off-set title and successive articles	85%> space used; off-balance or spatially awry; lack of prominent title
Neatness	Font of legible size and consistent; lack of unintentional blemish or crease; font neat and balanced	Font size varies unintentionally; small blemish or crease; overall balance and neatness	Font size illegible in size or neatness; numerous unintentional blemishes or creases; lack of neatness
Content	Seven or more features*; period correct (historical on at least 50% of paper); written in first person; no cut and paste	Five or Six features; period correct (historical on at least 50%); first person account; no cut and paste	Less than five features; lack of correctness; less than 50% historical; cut and paste
Creativity	Use of 2-4 illustrations**; colonial font; vocabulary word in title; weathered or treated paper; interviews throughout	Use of vocabulary word in title; colonial font in title; treated paper; other creative details	Plain paper; no vocabulary in title; no colonial font; lack of illustrations; lack of creative detail
* features include:	aphorisms/inventions	farming/meetings/weather	interviews/illustrations
** illustrations:	no larger than 10%	of page; no more	than two per side

KEEP IN MIND:  FRONT PAGE MUST BE HISTORICAL (1750-1800)/ NO MORE THAN 2 PICTURES PER SIDE/ WRITING ARTICLES MUST BE YOUR OWN WORK - Mrs. C

Resource Links!

Some of you seemed a bit disgruntled that there were no textbooks to check out for the weekend. Here are some links (you may look in the blog archives as well) to the more important stories we have covered.  The explorers...
John Smith's General History; Columbus's Journal; Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation
the native Americans...
Modoc - Grizzlies Walked Upright; Iroquois-Eastern Woodlands Turtle Creation; Iroquois Constitution - "The Great Binding Law"
and the Puritans...
Edwards - Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God; Cotton Mather - Wonders of the Invisible World (Salem Witch Trials); Anne Bradstreet - To My Dear and Loving Husband; Edward Taylor poems

Hope that this helps!  -Mrs. C

Setting Up for Unit One Test...

It's that time, folks! Study guide for unit one will be given today in class, and you can find a copy of that guide on the right under student resources. Crucible sheets will be completed and turned in, and your essay topics for unit one will be covered in class this week. Study guides on Wednesday, and we will play Jeopardy on Friday. Test starts Monday.
-Mrs. C