Pinch Pot Rubric

5.

You have completed all of your pots and they are the best possible quality. None of your pots are heavy. If a pot did not meet your high standards, you did it over again until it was what you were striving for. You have done every shape required and every pot is different from the other. Your closed in neck pot is well closed in. Your wide pot is as wide as possible. Your decorated rim pot is unique and well decorated. The five you scraped are scraped evenly so they are smooth. All pots have feet which make them stand out and the feet are attached neatly so they make the pot look better. The pot stands evenly on the foot and does not wobble. When you look at the burnished pot it has a good shine to it and it feels smooth. When you look at all of your pots none of them have any chips, cracks or flaws which distract from the quality of the work. Your painted on decoration is applied neatly and cleanly so it enhances the quality of the pot. Your carved out decoration is carved carefully so it makes the pot look better. The carving is neat and clean. The resist decorated pot using paper or wax has a design that is clean and sharp. The combination pot has a combination of two decorating techniques that you were taught and both techniques were done well. The plain pot is well pinched out with a good foot. You are proud of all your pots, have shown them to your friends and would be willing to have them put on display so the entire school could see them. You will give them to someone you care about.

 

4.

 

You have completed all of your pots, but you know you could do a bit better to make them perfect. One of your pots is a bit heavy .You might of made one over again, but you didnÕt keep on making them all until they were perfect. You have every shape required, but one shape could be worked on a bit more to get it even better. You have scraped all but one and the scraping has made the pots look better. Your burnished pot has a nice shine. All your pots have feet and most of the feet look good and make the pot stand out. Most of the feet are attached well and most if not all of the pots stand up well. When you look at all the decoration techniques most of them are applied well although you probably could have done better on one of the techniques. One pot has a small nick, or flaw that distracts from the quality of its construction. You are proud of your work and would be willing to display them to the school although you would probably omit one from your display. You would give most of them away to someone you care about.

 

3.

 

 

You have completed all of your pots, but you had problems creating the shapes required on the list. You have scraped five, but the scraping has not always improved the way the pots should look. All of your pots have feet, but some could be attached better or one or two pots do not stand well on the feet that you have attached or the feet are not attached neatly. On one of your pots the decoration really doesnÕt make the pot look better because it was applied in a sloppy manor, not carved well, not burnished well, or the combination of the two decorations simply doesnÕt work well. One of your pots has small flaws such as nicks, cracks, or lumps, which distract from the quality of the work. You are happy with your work, but are not excited about displaying all of them in front of the entire school, maybe just one. You might give one or two away to a good friend or relative.


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2.

You did all but one of the required pots. Most of the pots are in the required shapes from the assignment sheet and most are decorated correctly. You attached feet, but only some of them make the pot look better. Some feet have not been attached well so there are rough areas that distract from the quality of the work. The decoration on one or two of your pots looks good, but the rest of the decorated pots really donÕt look better because of the decoration. You really didnÕt paint the pots carefully or you could have carved the pot more carefully. You are not really very proud of your work and wouldnÕt be willing to display it for the school to see. You probably will not give any of your projects to someone you care about.

 

1.

You only did four of the required six pots. You decorated some of the pots, but they really donÕt look that good. You tried to scrape them, but there were so many lumps you couldnÕt get them even. They have feet, but they arenÕt attached well or they do not make the pot stand out or look better. You havenÕt done all the decoration techniques and/or the ones you did really didnÕt come out well. As soon as you get your credit for this project you will place your pots in the recycle bin and be glad to be finished.