Rubrics for Movie Reflection:
Stated Objective of Performance Unacceptable Acceptable Target
Summary of Film Provided minimal or inaccurate summary of events that occurred during the film. Provided summary of events that occurred during the film. Provided detailed description of events that occurred in during the film.
Reflection Did not include a reflection or provided insufficient reflection of the film. Provided a thorough reflection of events that occurred during the film. Provided extensive reflection about events that occurred during film.
Description of how movie will affect future career. Did not include an explanation or provided insufficient explanation of how the information gained from this activity will help you as a future educator. Provided a thorough explanation of how the information gained from this activity will help you as a future educator. Provided an extensive explanation of how the information gained from this activity will help you as a future educator.
Quality of writing Unclear, unorganized, with writing errors. Does not exhibit APA format: 12 point font, double-spaced, or fewer than 3 pages in length. Clear, organized, with no writing errors. Exhibits APA format: 12 point font, double-spaced, 3 pages in length. Clear, organized language, with no writing errors. Exhibits APA format: 12 point font, double-spaced, 3 pages in length. Exemplary expression
Overall

Movie Review Assignment Sheet: Analysis Grading Sheet
Introduction:

5 – Demonstrates an excellent understanding of the assignment. It has an engaging introductory sentence, context, raises excellent questions and has a strong thesis.
4 – Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the assignment. It has a good introductory sentence, some context, raises some excellent questions and has a good thesis.
3 - Demonstrates an good understanding of the assignment. It has an good introductory sentence, limited context, raises some questions and has a competent thesis.
2 - Demonstrates an understanding of the assignment. It has an introductory sentence, context, raises some questions and has a thesis.
1 - Demonstrates a less than competent understanding of the assignment. It has little or no introductory sentence, context, or questions. The paper may lack a thesis statement.

Body:
5 – Demonstrates an excellent understanding of the assignment. All questions are answered fully with in depth analysis and interpretation. The answers are accurate and the writing is articulate and sophisticated. The facts are vivid, explicit, effective and multiple. There are few grammatical mistakes and overall the paper is well written.
4 – Demonstrates a thorough understanding of the assignment. All questions are answered fully with analysis and interpretation. The answers are accurate and the writing is articulate and sophisticated. The facts are vivid, explicit, effective. There are some grammatical mistakes and overall the paper is well written.
3 - Demonstrates an good understanding of the assignment. Most questions are answered with in analysis and interpretation. The answers are fairly accurate and the writing is articulate. There are a few facts. There grammatical mistakes and overall the paper is acceptable.
2 - Demonstrates an understanding of the assignment. Most questions are answered fully with some analysis and interpretation. The answers are somewhat accurate and the writing is standard. There are few facts. There are many grammatical mistakes and overall the paper is poorly organized and written.
1 - Demonstrates a less than competent understanding of the assignment. It has little or no analysis. The paper may lack answers and the writing is poor. Limited facts and multiple grammatical error. Organization is poor and over quality is not present.

Conclusions:
5 – Demonstrates an excellent understanding of the assignment. It has an engaging conclusion that summarizes the evidence and connects to the thesis and body.
4 - Demonstrates an thorough understanding of the assignment. It has a good conclusion that summarizes the evidence and connects to the thesis and body
3 - Demonstrates an good understanding of the assignment. It has a conclusion which restates the introduction and summarizes the evidence somewhat.
2 - Demonstrates an understanding of the assignment. It has a standard conclusion that summarizes somewhat and is poorly written.
1 - Demonstrates a less than competent understanding of the assignment. It has little or no conclusion.

Odd things are happening around the world. A huge flock of pigeons suddenly goes berserk smashing through windows and causing traffic accidents. A space shuttle suddenly loses its navigation system. Freak lightning storms are knocking down concrete buildings. Professor Josh Keyes realizes that the phenomena are being caused by problems with the earth's electromagnetic field. This field is normally in place because of the earth's inner magnetic core. That core has suddenly stopped flowing. How and why is not important, but how to get it going again--otherwise more and more natural phenomena will increasingly cause more disasters "top side." Josh Keyes assembles a select group of scientists and engineers to build and pilot a special machine built to withstand extreme temperatures and pressures to journey to the earth's core and set off a nuclear detonation to start the rotation of the earth's core once again. Will the plan work?
All the actors do a fine job of delineating the differences among their characters, which causes a fair amount of fun friction between them. Stanley Tucci, as the pompous Dr. Zimsky is particularly funny, but Aaron Eckhart as the heroic leader Dr. Keyes gets in some funny lines of his own.

Credit for all this must go to the excellent script by Cooper Layne and John Rogers, as well as the edge-of-your-seat direction by Jon Amiel, who hasn't been entirely successful to date. Of course, the movie's superb special effects and editing by Terry Rawlings (ALIEN, BLADE RUNNER and CHARIOTS OF FIRE) are an added bonus.

THE CORE does, however, contain plenty of light foul language and a couple strong profanities. There is also one scene with a crucially placed "f" word, which sometimes happens in a movie rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America.

Aside from the foul language problem, THE CORE has no sex scenes, no gory scenes, and the violence is light, mostly nature versus man rather than man versus man.

Best of all, THE CORE provides moviegoers with an exciting tale of human heroism. The movie's strong moral worldview also includes at least three positive references to God, including one scene where an army officer wishes Major Childs, "God speed."