Economics: Financial Portfolio, Due Friday, May 13

Grade	A	B	C	Does Not Meet Standard
Cover and Binding	Contains appropriate title and images with your name. Creative; colorful; neatly bound; personalized	Contains appropriate title and images with your name. Neatly bound; personalized.	Contains an appropriate title with your name. Generic. Bound	No cover or title. No binding.
Introduction Prompts: Views on money and financial future prior to this assignment What you learned doing this assignment Value of money to you, good and bad Feelings regarding learning all this information (will you save more, cook more, buy cheaper products, etc.)	Thoroughly and clearly articulates all four prompts.	Clearly addresses all four prompts.	Answers all four prompts.	Minimal response to prompts, missing an introduction
Table of Contents	Well-formatted; neat, organized, numbered correctly	Organized, numbered correctly.	Organized, numbered with one or two errors.	No table of contents
Budget Narrative Job/salary, home, food, transportation, fashion, debt, personal care, Insurance, entertainment, investment/savings, other expenses	Narrative thoroughly addresses and explains each major and minor budget categories in well-written paragraphs	Narrative addresses and explains each major budget category.	Narrative addresses each major budget category.	Missing, incomplete or incoherent explanations
Budgets	Contains graded preliminary and complete revised budgets; budget balances; accurate; realistic	Contains graded preliminary and complete revised budgets; budget balances; accurate; realistic; 1-2 errors.	Contains preliminary and revised budget. Not graded and has multiple errors.	Budget is incomplete or full of errors and inaccuracies
Evidence (ads and printouts) -          Job -          Home/Rental -          Transportation -          Bus Pass -          Cell phone -          Insurance (auto and home) -          Auto or loan info. -          Investments -          Grocery receipts -          Cable/Internet	Attaches detailed evidence for all budget categories to the left.	Neatly attaches evidence for all budget categories to the left	Attaches sufficient evidence for most budget categories to the left; may contain gaps in information	No evidence attached
Career Path description List and explain all the requirements (education, internship, professional hours, professional certificates, training, etc.), to achieve the salary of your profession. Write in essay format.	Career path description is thorough and detailed.	Career path description is clear.	I Includes a career path description.	Does not include a career description
Stock Market Simulation -          What did you learn during the Stock Simulation? -          Will you invest in the future? Why? Why not? (if not, what do you think you would invest in? Bonds, Cd’s, mutual funds? -	Graded copy of individual portfolio with a thorough and detailed explanation of Stock Market rationale.	Graded copy of individual portfolio with a clear explanation of Stock Market rationale.	Graded copy of individual portfolio with reflection.	Does not include a stock reflection or individual portfolio worksheet
Format and Grammar	Typed, proofread for errors	Typed, some errors	Typed, many errors	Handwritten; excessive errors

Grade: __________    (Total: 500 points)