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Road to Revolution an Illustrated Story Book: Culminating Project Rubric
Summary of Project Directions for Option A: Demonstrate your mastery of Standard 8.1 by creating a children's
storybook that explains the steps leading to the American Revolution. Your book should include easy to understand
text, pictures with captions, maps, graphs, and primary source quotes. As an American, your storybook will most likely
have a pro-revolution bias. Nonetheless, remember to include pages which show key events from the British
perspective. Your book should cover the following ideas and events at the very least. You may include people, and
other events and ideas that you deem important: Who the colonists are and why they were in America. Mercantilism.
Western Political Heritage (Civic Republicanism & classical liberal principals.) Magna Carta. English Bill of Rights.
Social Contract Theory-- the purpose of government. Parliamentary Sovereignty. Salutary Neglect. French and Indian
War. Proclamation of 1763. Some of these events: Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts/Writs of Assistance,
Boston massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts. Some of these people or groups: John Adams, Sam Adams, Sons
of Liberty, Ben Franklin, King George III, etc. First Continental Congress.
The American Rebellion: An Illustrated Story Book Option B. For you divergent thinkers out there, follow the same
instructions as above, but write primarily from the British perspective. You book should be titled The American
Rebellion. (You may come up with a clever subtitle if you like.)
Excellent +
Below Standard Meets Standard 
Content: what you demonstrate that you know about the causes of the Revolutionary War is far more important
than how you present the info or the format.
8 of the 10 bulleted items are covered 5 of the 10 bulleted items are
3 of the 10 bulleted items are
in detail, showing that the authors
covered in but not in detail
covered, lacks detail, lacks
clearly understand how those ideas,
showing that the authors
explanation of how the events lead to
events, documents, people, and places
understand how those ideas,
war.
increased the tension between
events, documents, people, and
England and the colonies
places led to the war between
England and the colonies
Historical information is entirely
Historical information is mostly Historical information is frequently
accurate
accurate
inaccurate
Includes at least one page showing
Hints at British perspective
No indication of British view on
events from the British perspective
events leading to war
For 8 of the 8 bulleted items one of
For 5 of the 8 bulleted items one Fewer than 4 of the bulleted items
the following visual component
of the following visual
have an accompanying visual
accompanies it:
component accompanies:
component
 Primary source quotation
 Primary source
quotation
 Map
 Map
 Symbol
 Symbol
 Graph
 Graph
 Picture
 Picture
Format
Reads like a story: text has
Reads almost like a story: text
Reads like a text book or a list of
characters, setting, conflict, climax, generally has characters,
events; may lack sense of plot. Dull.
and resolution. Shows rising tensions setting, conflict, climax and
as interesting and intense. Sense
resolution.
that that anything can happen.
Easy to understand—but doesn’t talk Easy to understand
Too simplistic or difficult to
down to audience
understand—lacks a sense of
audience
Creative & compelling story, very
Somewhat interesting
Lacks originality and doesn’t make
interesting
one want to find out what happened.
L. Clark-Burnell, 2003. Storybook assignment is modified from TCI project.