The Berkshire Eagle

Dear Student,

The staff at the Berkshire Eagle would like to commend you on solving the Ivana B. Rich burglary case. Your teacher, Mr. Sanders, told us that you were able to solve the case with your incredible knowledge of the scientific method and your superior measuring skills. Our head reporter, Lauren Jeyed is, was going to write up the details of how you solved the case and who the burglar was, but unfortunately she has developed a serious sore throat and could not work this week. We were hoping that you could write an article for us that would let our millions of readers know exactly how you cracked the case.

An above average article should include…

· The names of everyone involved in the case

· A description of each person. (You can make this up, our readers will never know!)

· A brief description of what happened at the crime scene

· A definition of density and how it relates to “floating and sinking”

· A description of the tools that you used to solve the case. Our readers don’t know how to find density you know!

· Who the burglar was and who the primary and secondary accomplices were.

For an outstanding article, we would like you to make article very entertaining to read as well as include at least two of the following

· Commentary from everyone involved in the case.

· Sketches of each of the individuals

· Sketch of the crime scene and necklace

· Commentary from some of the students or teachers who heard about the crime.

We would like to publish your article on Thursday night, so please turn this in to Mr. Sanders during class on that day.

Thanks for your help.

Ima Lyer

Editor in Chief

Berkshire Eagle

Rubric for Berkshire Eagle Paper

Requirements	Points
All names included	1
Description of all persons involved in case	2
Description of crime scene	2
Definition of density and the formula to find it.	3
How does density relate to floating and sinking	3
Description of how you found the density of the liquids	3
Who gets charged with first degree burglary	3
Who gets charged as the primary accomplice?	3
Who gets charged as the secondary accomplice?	3
Creativity (so-so 1pt, good 2 pts, great 3 pts)	3
Total for A paper	27 points

To get an A+ you need to do at least 2 of the additional Outstanding Article “requirements” listed on the front page.

Total Possible………30 points

Good luck!!!