Name ___________________________________________________________ Period _______
Break Up Letter Assignment Rubric
The Declaration of Independence can be considered as the official break up between Great Britain’s North Atlantic colonies and Great Britain. Your assignment is to write a letter using contemporary language to express to the world why the colonies are “breaking up with Great Britain”.
Your letter must include the following elements-
1- An introduction that explains the situation in letter format (5 points)
2- A list of at least four rights that are all British citizens possess including a direct connection to the English document that provided them. (See notes # 25 English Documents) (5 points)
3- An example of how British Acts have violated (broken) each of the rights that you have listed. Use your notes from Unit 4 for this or p 166 -175 184 - 188 in Call to Freedom (5 points)
4- A description of what the colonies are going to do about Britain’s violation of the colonists’ rights
(5 points)
5 points | 4 points | 3 points | 2 points | 1 point | 0 points |
Letter contains an introduction that clearly identifies the problem between colonies and GB and sets tone as break up letter in the first person | Letter contains an introduction that identifies the problem between colonies and GB and sets tone as break up letter | Letter contains an introduction that clearly identifies the problem between colonies GB or sets tone as break up letter | Letter contains an introduction | Introduction not present | |
Letter lists 4 basic rights the colonists believe they have and identifies what document contained each of these rights | Letter lists 4 basic rights the colonists believe they have | Letter lists 3 basic rights the colonists believe they have | Letter lists 2 basic rights the colonists believe they have | Letter lists 1 basic rights the colonists believe they have | Letter does not list rights |
Letter thoroughly explains how Britain has violated colonial rights at least 4 times by connecting violation to an Act of Parliament | Letter explains how Britain has violated colonial rights at least 4 times | Letter explains how Britain has violated colonial rights at least 3 times | Letter explains how Britain has violated colonial rights at least 2 times | Letter explains how Britain has violated colonial rights at least 1 time | Letter does not explain how colonial rights were violated |
Letter has a clear description of how the colonies intends to respond to the above listed violations | Letter has a description of how the colonies will respond to the above listed violations | Letter does not explain colonial response to alleged violations or response is inaccurate |
Please turn this rubric in with your letter.
Overall Score ______
Your Letter is due Wednesday, November 20.