Timeline Grading Rubric

Directions:

• For your timeline, use an 8 1/2'' by 16'' sheet of white, unlined paper.
• From the following list, you must choose at least ten of these terms to include on your timelime.
• For the ten items from the list that you have chosen, you must include a typed description, item by item, of the reason why you chose to include these on your timeline? (Note: Staple this paper to the back of your timeline.)
• ( The Geneva Accords, Ho Chi Minh, President Diem, The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, President Johnson, President Nixon, Draft Cards, Vietcong. NLF, Dien Bien Phu, Kent State, the 1968 presidential candidates, General Curtis Lamay, The The My Lai Massacre, Napalm, Defoliant, The War Powers Act, Vietnamization, The Pentagon Papers, The Plumbers, Zippo Raids, Lurps, The Silent Majority, George Wallace, LBJ., RFK, Goldwater, Eugene McCarthy, Law and Order candidate, Operation Rolling Thunder, Dien Bien Phu , Nationalism, Imperialism The Tet Offensive, Peace with Honor, The Paris Peace Treaty)

not done	poor	below average	average	good	excellent	superior
0	(1-12)	(13-24)	(25-37)	(38-50)	(51-62)	(63-75)

I will rate your poster taking into consideration the following criteria listed below. 

Does the timeline . .

• reflect the correct dates
• make the reader aware of the purpose of the organization
• use printed or lettered text
• use portraits and other illustrations
• use color effectively
• filled up the space without appearing cluttered                                                     
• show evidence of careful research and preparation?
• successful in teaching the reader about its subject?
• creative in the presentation of materials?
   

Points and Grade given ________

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