Student Name:
Participation
Student diligently worked the
majority of each hour; time spent
off-task was minimal. It is clear the
student was putting forth a lot of
time and effort into this project!
5  Text is kept to a moderately-
About half of each class was spent
on the project, but student was off-
task the other half. Any of the
following problems were
happening:
 Out of room for long
3 periods (for any reason)
 Irresponsible use of the
computers (web-surfing)
 Chatting with friends
instead of working
 Refusing to work
Spent little to no class time on the
project. There were numerous
issues with keeping this student
on-task and focused on working.
1 student should have spent more time on
Topic:
Visual Design
Project meets all requirements (or goes
beyond them!) for the visual design:
 The year(s) is clearly marked
 A moderately-sized picture
connects the info. & timeline
 Research is presented in a
summarized, bullet-pointed
format
sized, readable font
 Three literary quotes &
explanations or Short paragraph
reflection(s) on the historical
significance are easily found and
visible
 A minimum of 3 citations are
present
The project meets all minimum
requirements, but the presentation of the
information seems disorganized,
disjointed, or sloppy. The student should
have spent more time on the final
appearance of the project.
Project is missing one or more required
sections of the final presentation on the
timeline. The visual presentation is
disorganized, disjointed, or sloppy. The
the final appearance of the project.
Final Grade:
Research Quality Sources
Basic information and interesting details/historical
meaning are presented. At least three sources (or
 All questions (as applicable to each topic) more!) are present and in
are answered about this topic! proper MLA format. Sources
 Information is not super detailed (full used are credible and
paragraphs), or too little, but summarized reliable.
appropriately for the timeline  3 Sources
 If a writer, three quotes are chosen from (minimum)
different works (as applicable) along with
a summarized explanation of the meaning
 Proper MLA
formatting
of each of the poems selected  All sources are valid
 If a historical topic, there is a minimum and credible
“full” paragraph reflection of the
historical significance of the topic.
The research seems to be missing fairly basic
information about the topic. The historical At least three sources are
significance of the topic is not well-represented in present but cited improperly
the research. in MLA format. The sources
 Only some questions are answered, or chosen for this project are
questions are not answered very well. questionable—probably not a
 Information is not summarized very well
(too long/detailed, much too short)
good place to find
information.
 If a writer: Three quotes are used, but the
explanations are off-target or missing.
 If historical: The reflection paragraph is
lacking or missing the point of the
historical significance of this topic.
The research on this topic is completely lacking.
There may be inaccurate information mixed in. The student does not have
There is only the most basic of information (birth, the minimum 3 required
death) and nothing of the topic’s literary or sources. Citations may not be
historical significance. in proper MLA. Sources may
 If a writer: Less than three quotes were not be credible.
used and/or the explanations are lacking.
 If historical: The reflection paragraph is
missing or of so little effort that it does
not meet expectations for this assignment.
 Writers and Speakers 1940-1960 Modernism
 Richard Wright
o Native Son
1850-1919 Reconstruction & The New Negro o Black Boy
 James M. Whitfield o "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow, an Autobiographical Sketch"
o "America"
 Ralph Ellison
o "Self-Reliance"
o Invisible Man
 Frances W. Harper
 Gwendolyn Brooks
o "Ethiopia"
o "We Real Cool"
o "Learning to Read"
o "the mother"
o "An Appeal to My Country Women"
o "The Lovers of the Poor"
 Booker T. Washington o "Malcolm X"
o Up From Slavery o "Riot"
 Charles W. Chesnutt  Robert Hayden
o "The Passing of Grandison" o "The Diver"
 W.E.B. Du Bois o "Middle Passage"
o The Souls of Black Folk o "Frederick Douglass"
 James Weldon Johnson  James Baldwin
o "Sence You Went Away" o "Everybody's Protest Novel"
o "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" o "Sonny's Blues"
o "Fifty Years"  Lorraine Hansberry
o "Brothers" o A Raisin in the Sun
o The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
 Paul Laurence Dunbar 1960-1975 The Black Arts Era
o "Ode to Ethiopia"  Amiri Baraka
o "An Ante-Bellum Sermon" o "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note"
o "Douglass" o "A Poem for Black Hearts"
o "Philosophy" o "I don't love you"
o "Worn Out" o "Three Movements and a Coda"
o "SOS"
1919-1940 Harlem Renaissance o "Black Art"
 Claude McKay o "Somebody Blew Up America"
o "America"  June Jordan
o "Outcast" o "In Memoriam: Martin Luther King Jr."
o "If We Must Die" o "Poem about My Rights"
o "The Lynching"
 Ishmael Reed
o "To the White Fiends"
o "Dualism"
o "The White House"
o "Chattanooga"
 Zora Neale Hurston
 Haki R. Madhubuti
o "The Gilded Six-Bits"
o "Malcolm Spoke / who listened?"
o "Sweat"
o "The Long Reality"
o "How it Feels to be Colored Me"
 Nikki Giovanni
o Their Eyes were Watching God
o "Beautiful Black Men"
 Nella Larsen
o "Nikki-Rosa"
o Passing
o "From a Logical Point of View"
o "Sanctuary"
o "Freedom"
 Jessie Redmon Fauset Historical Events, People, and Movements
o "Dead Fires"
o "La Vie C'est La Vie"
 Sojourner Truth
o Comedy American Style
o "Ain't I am Woman?"
 Langston Hughes
 Niagra Movement
o "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
o "Dance Africaine"  Emmett Till
o "The Weary Blues"  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
o "I, Too"  Alain Locke
o "Po' Boy Blues" o "The New Negro"
o "Song for a Dark Girl"  Marcus Garvey
o "Christ in Alabama" o "Africa for the Africans"
o "Dream Boogie" o Back-to-Africa movement of the 1920s
o "Mulatto"  The Harlem Renaissance
o "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"  Freedom Riders
o "Harlem"  The Civil Rights Acts of 1964 & 1968
 Countee Cullen  Malcolm X
o "Heritage"  Black Panther Party
 Helene Johnson  Black Arts Movement
o "Poem"  Black Power Movement
o "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem"  Tuskegee Airmen
o "Invocation"  Angela Davis
 Gwendolyn Bennett  Attica State Prison
o "Wedding Day"