How will you be Graded?

Your efforts  will be evaluated in several ways:

• You will be rating your own performance at Hogwarts after each day there.  You'll be filling out a rubric and conferencing with your teacher as you both go over your journal and assignments.  Your teacher will fill out a copy of the same rubric you filled out so that you may get specific feedback on how to improve and what you are doing well.  Save your daily feedback from your teacher and your daily self-evaluation sheets  in your folder.  An average of your daily ratings agreed upon by you and your teacher will be used as half of your final grade.

Here is an example of the Daily Rubric:

• Your final grade for this project will be a combination of your daily work and your final project.  Your final project will be a PowerPoint presentation which will be a combination of your journal and a final project of your choice.  This final project will be rated on nearly the same criteria as your daily work.  It should showcase all the things you've learned such as  vocabulary, knowledge of the literary components of the book such as  the book's theme, plot, characters, setting, etc.   It will  also showcase your skills at using the Office Tools: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Here is the Final Project Rubric.

• The Daily Scores will be averaged to find the Daily Score Mean. 
• The Final Evaluation (PowerPoint Presentation) will be evaluated and scored.
• The Daily Score Mean will be averaged with Final Evaluation (PowerPoint Presentation) score.  This final average will provide the Final Score for the Harry Potter WebQuest.

To truly celebrate the philosophy of learning Technology at the Point of Instruction, all final PowerPoint projects should be published online.  If at all possible, students may do this themselves through use of Microsoft FrontPage!