The Biography Rubric

Standards Approaching Meets Exceeds

History The biography The biography The biography
minimally discusses the discusses impact or elaborates on the
impact or significance significance the impact of significance
of the chosen historical chosen historical the chosen historical
figure had during the figure had during the
figure had during the
Holocaust and may or Holocaust and
Holocaust and
may not relay the successfully relays
human cost of war effectively relays the the human cost of
through the figure’s human cost of war war through the
perspective. through the figure’s figure’s perspective.
perspective​.

ELA The biography The biography relates The biography

moderately relates the sequence of evaluates the
the sequence of events in the life of sequence of events
events in the life of the historical figure in the life of the
the historical figure and communicates historical figure and
and mildly the significance of successfully
communicates the events to the
significance of events audience.
to the audience.

ELD The biography uses The biography uses The biography uses
information from the information from the information from the
graphic organizer to graphic organizer to graphic organizer to
create a summary of create concise create a detailed and
the historical figure summary of the concise summary of
using mostly historical figure using the historical figure
complete sentences complete sentences using polished
and may or may not and key vocabulary complete sentences
use key vocabulary words. and key vocabulary
words. terms.