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Hi there,

Please forgive me if this question has already been answered before, but I have searched the board and haven't been able to find an answer to my question. We are really looking forward to using the World Geography with my rising 9th grader next year, and I have spent a lot of time reading the introduction and online samples. My question pertains to the grading of the summaries and narrations in the geography and world religion credits. In the introduction to the guide posted online, I see the wonderful course descriptions all written out with the breakdown of all of the assignments and their percentages of the total grade. I am wondering if there is any direction given to the parent on grading the summaries and narrations. Are there grading rubricks or minimum guidelines given somewhere? As is, it seems to be totally subjective... I would love a little more direction on how to give a fair, accurate grade for these courses. Thanks in advance for your help and advice!

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Anyone-please??? I can't imagine I'm the only one with this question...

I use a check rubric for grading things like this-
Here are the check boxes-

Criteria--The work meets all of these standards:

√ + 100
■ The assignment is neat and completed with care
■ The assignment is complete and/or correct
■ The assignment was completed according to instructions given
■ The assignment shows a thorough understanding of the content

√ 90
Meets 4 standards (note the 2nd item has 2 requirements). It can be complete without being correct

√- 80
Meets 3 standards

√- (pretend I can put a circle around the check minus ) 70
Meets 2 standards

INC
Incomplete-Work that is incomplete or poorly done will receive a grade of incomplete

Then I use the narration guidelines within HOD guides to determine if my student is meeting these standards. Hope this helps. I give my student a laminated copy of the written and oral narration guidelines (normally on color coded paper to make it stand out and not easily misplace). I laminate the teacher's guidelines respectively color coded and I have my Check Rubric laminated as well. I printed it out years ago and laminated it and it looks a lot better as a graphic rubric than what I have typed above. You may could try googling check rubric pdf. I keep an old fashioned grade book for recording grades as we go. You can often get them in the $1 section of Target at back to school time. I also transfer the grades to homeschool helper on my nook to print our report cards yearly. We are going to use Classical Conversations academicrecords.net for transcript purposes and you pay nothing until you actually want to print your transcript (and you don't have to be a part of CC to use their transcript site).

ETA-I got the check rubric from a teacher's web site years ago.

Thank you, Tidbits! That is very helpful. I have only used the Little Hearts thru Bigger Hearts guides, and that was at least 5 years ago(?). I see from your post that what's going to help me out the most is to have the narration guidelines in-hand that you mentioned. I just placed my order yesterday for CTC and WG, so I will make a note to look at the appendices first thing when the books arrive. (Reeeeeeeally looking forward to box day this year. ) Also, if you don't mind, I'm going to borrow your checklist. It gives me a good starting point. Thanks!

I will try to take a pic of the graphic I laminated of the check rubric. I got it from a teacher's site years ago. That way you can print out the pretty one.

You could easily replicate in a graphics program or print it out from the pic although I think the pic is a bit grainy.