Constitutional Amendment Project due 1/16 A Constitutional Amendment will be assigned to you. Summarize the Amendment in your own words. Be careful! Don't edit out words you don't know. Look them up in a dictionary to make sure you convey the full meaning of each word in the Constitution. Include the date the Amendment was ratified. Find a current event or Supreme Court case that deals with your Amendment (see www.supremecourt.gov). Read the event or summary of the court case. Write your own summary of the event/case. The sources you use must be cited

properly using APA or MLA. The summary of the Amendment and the current event must be typed and submitted to Turn It In and the score can not be more than 30% unoriginal. Constitutional Amendment Project Grading Rubric

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Amendment

Constitutional Amendment

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Constitutional

Constitutional

Summary

was summarized in a way

Amendment was

Amendment was

Amendment was not

that accurately conveyed the meaning and significance; no

summarized in a

summarized in a

way that did not

important parts were left

way that mostly conveyed the

summarized in away that accurately

out.

meaning and

conveyed the

significance

meaning and significance but an

accurately

conveyed the meaning and significance; little or no attempt was made to do so.

attempt was made Vocabulary

Current event/court case

All difficult language was

Most difficult

Some difficult

Difficult language was

defined and rewarded to put

language was

language was

not defined and

into language that Is easily

defined and

defined and

rewarded to put into

understood.

rewarded to put

rewarded to put

language that is easily

into language that is easily

into language that

understood.

is easily

understood.

understood.

The current event or court

The current event

The current event

No current event or

case matched the Amendment

or court case

or court case did

court case was

mostly matched the Amendment

not match the

presented.

Amendment

Event/case

The current event or court

The current event

The current event

The current event or

summary

case was summarized

or court case was

or court case was

court case was not

accurately.

mostly summarized

not summarized

summarized or not

accurately.

presented.

accurately. Presentation,

Work is typed, there were no

Work is typed,

Work is typed/

Writing was not neat,

grammar and

spelling and grammar errors.

there were a few

there were many

there too many

spelling

Capitalization and

spelling and

spelling and

spelling and grammar

punctuation are correct.

grammar,

grammar,

errors to be readable.

Formal language is used.

capitalization and

capitalization and

punctuation

punctuatlon errors.

Total out of 20 Letter Grade

errors. Formai

Formal language is

language is used.

not used.