Civic Responsibility

Introduction

 When people live together or work together in communities there are certain responsbilities  that are expected. For example, in your home you may be responsbile for certain chores. In class, you have a responsbility to come to school everyday, do your best, treat others with respect and lots of other responsibilites as well.

In our country, The United States of America, we have certain responsibilites too.  In this webquest you will  identify ways good citizens go beyond basic civic and political responsibilities to improve government and society.

Wow, that is a mouthful right?

Task

Your task will be to write a letter to another 5th grader in a different country. You will explain what is like to live in the United States. Tell your pen pal what you like to do for fun, what a weekend is like in your family and any other interesting facts you would like to include.

You will also explain to your pen pal:

1.What responsbilities that each citizen of the USA has to perform to be considered a good citizen. 

2. Explain why each responsibility is important in helping our governement and society become a better place.

 

Process

Evaluation

CATEGORY

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Salutation and Closing

Salutation and closing have no errors in capitalization and punctuation.

Salutation and closing have 1-2 errors in capitalization and punctuation.

Salutation and closing have 3 or more errors in capitalization and punctuation.

Salutation and/or closing are missing.

Completes task and includes all

Parts.

Complies with all the requirements of the task.

Complies with almost all the requirements of the task.

Complies with several of the requirements of the task.

Complies with less than 75% of the requirements of the task.

Length

The letter is at least three paragraphs long. Each paragraph is three sentences long or better.

The letter is three paragraphs long. The paragraphs contain less than three sentences.

The letter has less then three paragraphs.

The letter is not written in paragraphs.

Ideas

Ideas were expressed in a clear and organized fashion. It was easy to figure out what the letter was about.

Ideas were expressed in a pretty clear manner, but the organization could have been better.

Ideas were somewhat organized, but were not very clear. It took more than one reading to figure out what the letter was about.

The letter seemed to be a collection of unrelated sentences. It was very difficult to figure out what the letter was about.

Capitalization and Punctuation

Writer makes no errors in capitalization and punctuation.

Writer makes 1-2 errors in capitalization and punctuation.

Writer makes 3-4 errors in capitalization and punctuation.

Writer makes more than 4 errors in capitalization and punctuation.

Grammar & spelling (conventions)

Writer makes no errors in grammar or spelling.

Writer makes 1-2 errors in grammar and/or spelling.

Writer makes 3-4 errors in grammar and/or spelling

Writer makes more than 4 errors in grammar and/or spelling.

Conclusion

I hope you have learned some important things about being a citizen.

On a seperate sheet of paper answer the following questions:

1. What did you like about this project?

2. What did you find difficult on this project?

3. What questions do you still have?