Grading Rubric

Personalized Cover: cloth or decorative papper on all 3
sides; neat, attractive, original, relates to student

Title Page: name, date, title

Table of Contents: titles of sections & page numbers
with dot leaders

Where I'm From Poem: with recent picture of student

Dedication/Acknowledgment Page: 350+ words;
letter format, paragraph form

Family Tree: computer generated; at least 4 or more
generations with names, dates, places, etc.; photos of
immediate family, grandparents, and ancestors with
captions

Family Heirlooms: essay of 350 words plus picture, at
least 4 other heirloom pictures included with detailed
captions

Family Homes: 2 typed pages; with 6+ photographs of
homes (inside or out) of student, parent, grandparents
with descriptive captions or 3 ancedotes of 75 words each

Interview of Grandparent: 3 typed pages with minimum
of 8 quotations and 3 photographs; includes early life,
schooling, career, day-to-day living, personal
philosophy, heritage

Teen-to-Teen, In the News: PowerPoint with title slide and 13 topics covered for 2005 and year that granparent was same age

Autobiography: 4 typed pages; from birth to present;
cover all topics

Pictorial History of Student from Birth to Present: in
chronological order; descriptive captions (up to 30 pages of photos possible)

Format: everything neatly typed including all captions,
all pages numbered, attractive divider pages between
all sections--always starting on the right-hand side of the
page, no blank pages, essays starting on right-hand side
of page. Creativity/extras

Interview of One or Both Parent about Social Activities
During Teen Years: essay of 350 words; multiple photos
with captions

Family Members/Ancestors in the Military: essay of 350
words plus multiple photos and documents with descriptive
captions; minimum of 3 family members

Family Rituals and Holiday Celebrations: essay of 350+
words; 3 holidays included; multiple photos with descriptive
captions and 2 family recipes

World of Work: essay of 350 words; multiple photos
on the job and with colleagues

Favorite Things: essay of 350 words; multiple photos
of 3 favorite activities; hobbies, talents, hangouts, books, etc.

School Days: pictures and documents reflecting
important memories of 12 years of school; captions
required; spotlight pages of elementary, middle, high
school activities; essay of 350 words

Travel and Vacations: multiple photos of 3 vacations or
trips with descriptive captions; essay of 350 words

Cemetery Photos and Obituaries: descriptive captions
required, map with description of location in cemetary,
multiple photos

Best Friends: esay of 350 words; up to 10 pages of
photos (1 elementary, 1 middle school, 8 high school)
with descriptive captions; friends at different stages of
life

Pet-Biography: essay of 350 words; multiple photos of
at least 3 pets with descriptive captions

Auto-Biography: essay of 250-300 words; multiple photos
with descriptive captions

Sports-Biography: essay of 350 words; photos of student
and family members, clippings with captions, multiple
sports