ASSIGNMENT 1

After reading the Introduction to Some Well Known Nanajo Potters, write a short paper reporting information about Navajo potters, their role in the community, the similarities and differences among the styles of the various potters.

Check your paper against the Assessment guide. Make what corrections you think important.

ASSESSMENT RUBRIC OF NAVAJO POTTERS PAPER

Pottery Information

Beginning:
You name two or more Navajo potters. You match two or more names with images of their pots.

Competent:
You can name all the potters and tell something about each of them. You match all but one or two of the potters and images correctly.

Advanced:
You name all the potters and give some details about them and their lives. You matech all of the potters and their images correctly.

Writing Conventions

Beginning:
Your writing demonstrates little control of standard writing conventions and has frequent, significant errors that impede readability, such as: punctuation and spelling errors, incorrect punctuation, errors in grammar and usage.

Competent:
Your writing demonstrates control of standard writingconventions (e.g., punctuation, spelling, capitalization, paragraph breaks, grammar and usage).

Advanced:
Your writing demonstrates strong control of standard writing conventions (e.g., punctuation, spelling, capitalization, paragraph breaks, grammar and usage)and uses them effectively to enhance communication. Errors are so few and so minor that they do not impede readability.