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Beginnings

Student fully addresses each religion's beginnings, including founder, location, and time period in an informative, coherent, and comprehensive fashion.

Student addresses each religion's beginnings including founder, location, and time period in an informative, coherent fashion.

Student addresses each religion's beginnings, neglecting one aspect or does so in an incomplete, in coherent fashion

Student fails to address two religions, or two aspects of a religion's beginnings, or does so in an incomplete and incoherent fashion

Spread

Student fully addresses the spread of each religion, includes a map illustrating the spread, and addresses important people, events, and dates where appropriate

Student addresses the spread of each religion, and includes a map illustrating the spread

Student addresse the spread of two religions, or incompletely addresses all three

Student does not address the spread of any religion

Texts

Student names appropriate texts, and provides a comprehensive description of each.

Student names appropriate texts and briefly describes each.

Student names 2 appropriate texts or discusses them in an incomplete fashion.

Student names 1 text or fails to discuss any

Major beliefs

Student provides a comprehensive overview of each religion's central beliefs and what makes each unique.

Student provides an overview of each religion's central beliefs.

Students provides a brief overview of each religion's central beliefs.

Students provides inaccurate information, or doesn;t address all three religions.

Customs

Student fully describes three customs of each religion.

Student describes two customs of each religion.

Student describes one custom of each religion.

Student inacurately describes religious customs.

Holidays

Student fully describes at least two holidays for each religion

Student describes at least one holiday for each religion

Student either inaccurately describes the holidays or fails to mention one for each religion

Student describes only one holiday total or incoherently describes holidays for each religion

Symbols

Student provides one or two symbols for each religion

Student provides one symbol for each religion

Student provides a symbol for two religions

Student fails to provide more than one total symbol

Similarities

Student discusses each religion, and provides an insightful and informed description of at least three similarities

Student discusses each religion, and provides a description of two similarities

Student discusses each religion, and provides a description of one similarity

Student provides an innacurate description or doesnt address all three religions.

Modern Conflict

Student provides an original, informative, and accurate account of a modern religious conflict involving the appropriate religions and provides sources.

Student provides an original, accurate account of a modern religious conflict involving the appropriate religions and provides sources

Student provides an inaccurate or non-informative account of a mdern religious conflict and provides sources

Student does not describe a modern religious conflict, merely alludes to a conflict, or does not provide sources.