Current Event Graphic Organizer
Topic of the article:
Who was involved?	When did it occur?
What happened?	Where did it occur?
Event Type: c Local: Ansbach or Base News c National: Somewhere in Germany c Homeland: USA news c World: Outside of the USA & Germany	Why I picked this article?

Citation
Name of article: ______________________________________________________

Where I found it: _____________________________________________________

Publication date: _____________________________________________________

Take all this information and write, in paragraph format,
a summary incorporating all this information.

CURRENT EVENT NEWSPAPER RUBRIC
	0	1	2	3	4
Article	No article		Partial article only		Full article
Web	No web included	Missing major topic and/or supporting details	Incomplete or inadequate web	Adequate web, could use more detail	Complete and accurate web containing all details
Citations	No mention of article, newspaper, and/or date	Missing 2+ of: article, newspaper, and/or date	Missing only one: article, newspaper and date	Article, newspaper and date included, but not formatted correctly	Article, newspaper and date included, formatted correctly
Event	Does not identify article as world, national, or local event		Incorrectly identifies article as world, national, or local event		Identifies article as world, national, or local event
Summary	Did not include a summary	Used own words to answer at least 1: who, what, where, when and why	Used own words to answer at least 3: who, what, where, when and why	Used own words to answer at least 4: who, what, where, when and why	Used own words to answer who, what, where, when and why
Reasoning	Did not include a reason for article selection	No reasoning for article selection	Some reasoning for article selection	Adequate reasoning for article selection	Convincing reasoning for why article was selected
Overall		Of 24

Writing Rubrics

Grade is applied to Social Studies & Language Arts

Current Event Graphic Organizer