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Name ______________________ Period _____ Date ____________ 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.