Marketing Means More - Kentucky Department of Agriculture
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Marketing Means More - Kentucky Department of Agriculture
Marketing Means More Description/Organizer: This lesson will help students understand the process of marketing and the importance of marketing Kentucky products in retail stores. Why is marketing crucial to the sale of Kentucky products? Background Information: How many times do you look on the back of your canned goods or check the stickers of your fresh fruits and vegetables to see where your groceries were processed or grown? Do you know where your food comes from? If you knew there was a high-quality product that was grown or manufactured in Kentucky, would you buy this product? There is a growing trend in our country to buy products that are locally grown or made. Not only does buying a product that originated locally encourage growth in our state and local economy, it also often means you are getting healthier and tastier food! Yet, how many times have you walked right down the aisle not knowing whether any of the products you are buying are from our own state? The purpose of this lesson is to help students understand the steps taken by entrepreneurs as they market a product, as well as the benefits for businesses and consumers alike. LEVEL: Grades 3 – 5 SUBJECTS: Social Studies (Economics) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Students will understand the process of marketing and the importance of marketing Kentucky products in retail stores. STUDENT OBJECTIVES: • Students will find out which products are grown or manufactured in Kentucky. • Students will create an advertisement to post in a local grocery store. • Students will learn about the process of marketing a product in a retail store. ESTIMATED TEACHING TIME: Session One: 15 minutes Session Two: 30-45 minutes Session Three: 30-45 minutes Session Four: 30-45 minutes RELATED LESSONS: • The Power of the Neighborhood Market Academic Expectations: 1.11 Students write using appropriate forms, conventions, and styles to communicate ideas and information to different audiences for different purposes. 2.18 Students understand economic principles and are able to make economic decisions that have consequences in daily living. 2.22 Students create works of art and make presentations to convey a point of view. 2.30 Students evaluate consumer products and services and make effective consumer decisions. Program of Studies: Big Idea: Economics Primary Enduring Knowledge – Understandings Students will understand that • The basic economic problem confronting individuals and groups in our community today is scarcity; as a result of scarcity economic choices and decisions must be made. • A variety of fundamental economic concepts (e.g., supply and demand, opportunity cost) impact individuals, groups and businesses in the community today. • Markets enable buyers and sellers to exchange goods and services. • Economic institutions are created to help individuals, groups and businesses in the community accomplish common goals. 1 KY Dept. of Agriculture Marketing Means More Individuals, groups and businesses in the community demonstrate interdependence as they make economic decisions about the use of resources (e.g., natural, human, capital) in the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Big Idea: Economics Grade 4 Enduring Knowledge – Understandings Students will understand that • The basic economic problem confronting individuals and groups in Kentucky today is scarcity; as a result of scarcity, economic choices and decisions must be made. • A variety of fundamental economic concepts impact individuals and groups. • Markets enable buyers and sellers to exchange goods and services. • Individuals, groups and businesses demonstrate interdependence as they make economic decisions about the use of resources (e.g., natural, human, capital) in the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Big Idea: Economics Grade 5 Enduring Knowledge – Understandings Students will understand that • The basic economic problem confronting individuals, groups and businesses in the United States today is scarcity: as a result of scarcity, economic choices and decisions must be made. • A variety of fundamental economic concepts (e.g., supply and demand, opportunity cost) impact individuals, groups and businesses in the United States today. • Core Content: SS-EP-3.1.1 - Students will define basic economic terms related to scarcity (e.g., opportunity cost, wants and needs, limited productive resources – natural, human, capital) and explain that scarcity requires people to make economic choices and incur opportunity costs. DOK 2 SS-04-3.1.1 - Students will describe scarcity and explain how scarcity requires people in Kentucky to make economic choices (e.g., use of productive resources – natural, human, capital) and incur opportunity costs. DOK 2 SS-05-3.1.1 - Students will describe scarcity and explain how scarcity required people in different periods in the U.S. (colonization, expansion, 20th century to present) to make economic choices (e.g., use of productive resources – natural, human, capital) and incur opportunity costs. DOK 2 SS-EP-3.4.1 - Students will define basic economic terms related to production, distribution and consumption (e.g., goods and services, wants and needs, supply and demand, specialization, entrepreneur) and describe various ways goods and services are distributed (e.g., by price, first-come-first-served, sharing equally). DOK 2 SS-04-3.4.1 - Students will describe production, distribution and consumption of goods and services in regions of Kentucky and the U.S. DOK 2 SS-05-3.4.1 - Students will describe production, distribution and consumption of goods and services in the history of the U.S. (colonization, industrialization, 20th century to present). DOK 3 SS-EP-3.4.2 - Students will describe how new knowledge, technology/tools, and specialization increases productivity in our community, state, nation and world. 2 KY Dept. of Agriculture Marketing Means More SS-04-3.4.2 - Students will describe how new knowledge, technology/tools and specialization increases productivity and promotes trade between regions of Kentucky and the United States (e.g., Midwest – corn, South – citrus). SS-05-3.4.2 - Students will describe how new knowledge, technology/tools and specialization increase/increased productivity in the U.S. (colonization, industrialization, 20th century to present). DOK 3 Concepts: marketing, advertising, processing, manufacturing, scarcity, opportunity cost, goods and services, supply and demand, specialization, entrepreneur, productive resources (natural, human, capital) Prepare: • Bring a jar of Jif peanut butter, Ragu spaghetti sauce and a jar of Five Brothers Alfredo sauce to display. • Paper for drawing an illustration for every two students. • Students will need pencils, crayons, and/or markers. • Poster board for groups of students to create advertisement signs. • Copy of the open response questions (page 11) for each student. (Rubric is on page 9.) • Essential Questions: 1. What is special about a Kentucky-grown product? 2. Why is it a challenge for producers to market Kentucky-grown products? 3. Will purchasing Kentucky-grown products have an impact on the future of Kentucky agriculture and why? Teach: SESSION 1. WHAT IS IN COMMON HERE? Display a jar of Jif peanut butter, a jar of Ragu spaghetti sauce, and a jar of Five Brothers Alfredo sauce. (These are only examples; you can use different items.) Ask students to guess what these three items have in common and what they have to do with today’s lesson. After accepting several responses, tell students that these products were manufactured/processed in Kentucky. Jif is manufactured in Lexington, Kentucky and the spaghetti and Alfredo sauces were made in Owensboro, Kentucky. However, these companies only manufacture/process the product – they don’t actually obtain the raw ingredients from Kentucky used in the products. Other Kentucky companies, such as Weisenberger Mills in Midway, Kentucky, and WindStone Farms in Paris, Kentucky actually grow and purchase the raw ingredients from other Kentucky growers. They then process those ingredients into their Kentucky product. Weisenberger Mills is five generations old and one of the oldest family businesses in Kentucky. It has a grain mill that makes pizza crust mix, muffin mixes, flour, spoonbread mixes and much more. Weisenberger Mills’ products are in many supermarkets across the state. WindStone Farms sells its jams nationwide in Wal-Mart and Kroger. SESSION 2. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Use the “What Would You Do?” scenario (page 8) to guide the next activity. Allow students to choose partners. Students will work together to create a process for marketing a value-added product they are making from their dairy farm. Students should create an illustration or cartoon series to show the steps they would take to market this product. For 3 KY Dept. of Agriculture Marketing Means More instance, students should decide the following: what their product is, manufacture and prepare this product, take this product to business owners to allow them to assess or try the product, continue this process until businesses agree to sell their product, then advertise their product. SESSION 3. A SUCCESSFUL KENTUCKY ENTREPRENEUR Read about Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese together with students (page 10). After reading the selection, use these questions to compare what they learned about this Kentuckian’s business strategies. • How was your strategy similar to Kenny’s strategy? • What are some steps he took that made him successful? • What was his opportunity cost to begin his venture into making cheese? • How has Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese expanded as a result of marketing the product in retail stores? (It has expanded by 50 percent each year). SESSION 4. IT’S YOUR TURN! Have students make a poster or sign to advertise Kentucky-made products. Find a few supermarkets in your community that are willing to display these posters around the area where these products are sold. Remind them that this is free advertising right inside their store! Assessment: • Use the rubric (page 9) to score posters and signs created in the last activity. • Use the open response (page 11) to assess student understanding of the concepts covered in the lesson and the rubrics (pages 9 and 12) to score their answers. Connect: • COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: Take a field trip to the supermarket and have a scavenger hunt to find all the Kentucky-made products. • Invite parents in to have a cooking show. Have parents use only products from Kentucky. Or have students put on a cooking show for parents using Kentucky products. • Have a “Taste of Kentucky” day at your school and invite area businesses to have a display. Allow students in your class to sample products that are made from Kentucky products. • SOCIAL STUDIES: Have students research to find where products are made in Kentucky. Next, have students use the Kentucky county map on page 17 to place symbolic pictures of those products at the location from where they originated. • WRITING: Have students write a how-to piece using a Kentucky recipe or on making a craft that is native to Kentucky or uses only Kentucky products. Teacher Resources: • Ice Cream (Elisha Cooper) With the leisurely pace of a herd of cows ambling to the barn at sundown, Cooper begins his detailed account of how ice cream is made. • Life on a Cattle Farm (Judy Wolfman) Life on a Farm series. A young person who lives and works there describes the breeding and birth for the animal farm. Readers interested in farm life will get a good sense of the pleasures and the work involved. 4 KY Dept. of Agriculture Marketing Means More • Life on a Chicken Farm (Judy Wolfman) Life on a Farm series. In each photo-essay, a child narrator talks about his or her life living and working on a family farm. Captioned color photos and an informative text follow the farm activities, including many aspects of the operation. • Life on a Crop Farm (Judy Wolfman) Life on a Farm series. A young person who lives and works on a farm describes the planting and harvesting. Readers interested in farm life will get a good sense of the pleasures and work involved. • Life on a Dairy Farm (Judy Wolfman) Life on a Farm series. In each photo-essay, a child narrator talks about his or her life living and working on a family farm. Captioned color photos and an informative text follow the farm activities, including many aspects of the operation. • Life on a Goat Farm (Judy Wolfman) Life on a Farm series. A young person who lives and works there describes breeding and birth on the animal farm. Readers interested in farm life will get a good sense of the pleasures and the work involved. • Life on a Horse Farm (Judy Wolfman) Life on a Farm series. A young person who lives and works there describes breeding and birth on the animal farm. Readers interested in farm life will get a good sense of the pleasures and the work involved. • Life on a Sheep Farm (Judy Wolfman) Life on a Farm series. In each photo-essay, a child narrator talks about his or her life living and working on a family farm. Captioned color photos and an informative text follow the farm activities, including many aspects of the operation. • Life on an Apple Orchard (Judy Wolfman) Life on a Farm series. In each photo-essay, a child narrator talks about his or her life living and working on a family farm. Captioned color photos and an informative text follow the farm activities, including many aspects of the operation. • Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep: A Yarn about Wool (Teri Sloat) Lanky Farmer Brown shears his sheep and then takes the wool to be carded, spun, and dyed, all the while unaware of the unrest fomenting amongst his now-shivering sheep. When he finally realizes their plight, he sits down to knit the yarn into colorful sweaters. This book is informative on the process: raw wool to cardigans. • One Pizza, One Penny (K.T. Hao) Ben Bear makes divine pizzas; Chris Croc bakes heavenly cakes. They are best friends who happily share these treats, but when Chris Croc gets a taste of money, they both get the idea that selling is better than sharing. Hunger and the same gold coin that divided them bring the two together again. • The Pickle Patch Bathtub (Frances Kennedy) It’s 1925, and Donna needs $10.75 for a bathtub (she’s outgrown the washtub), but her Missouri farm family can’t afford one. So 5 KY Dept. of Agriculture Marketing Means More she and her siblings earn the cash by growing cucumbers to sell for pickling. This tale of delayed gratification is leavened with humor and child-pleasing collage art. • Sweet Potato Pie (Kathleen D. Lindsey) Energetic acrylic paintings enhance this story of an African-American family that saves its farm by selling sweet potato pies at the local Harvest Celebration. In a well-paced narrative, 8-year-old Sadie tells the story of each family member’s contribution. • Up, up, up! It’s Apple-Picking Time (Jody Fickes Shapiro) A boy’s bouncy first-person narration describes his visit to his grandparents’ farm. Myles and his family spend the afternoon picking apples in Granny and Grandpa’s orchard; the following day they sell the fruit from a roadside stand. • Farmers’ Market (Carmen Parks) “It’s still dark, but it’s time for me to get up. It’s market day in Red Rock.” A young girl tells of helping her parents sell their produce at the farmers’ market. Web Sites: • www.kyagr.com - Kentucky Department of Agriculture. On the Programs page, choices are: Agritourism, Aquaculture, Beekeeping, Buy Kentucky Products, Market Prices, Equine, Farmers’ Markets, Plant Marketing, International Marketing, Animal Marketing Programs, Organic Programs, Plant Production, Woods Program • http://www.wfpl.org/KY_works/default.htm# - Kentucky Works site which features Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese (listed here as Kenny’s Country Cheese). You will find a set of pictures you can click through that shows the process of making the cheese. You may also hear an audio recording of Kenny Mattingly discussing his business and dairy farm. • http://www.kennyscountrycheese.com/ - This page includes background information about Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese and how the cheese is made. • http://www.kyagr.com/kyproud/consumer.htm - Kentucky Proud Country Store, and buy Kentucky Proud; Kentucky Plant Guide: (A database of Kentucky plants and perennials to help you plan your landscape.); Farmers' Markets; List of Kentucky produce co-ops, growers and shippers; Check out the Kentucky Proud produce availability chart to discover when to find the freshest local fruits and vegetables; recipes and helpful hints about Kentucky Proud produce. • http://www.ams.usda.gov/index.htm - The Agricultural Marketing Service includes six commodity programs – Cotton, Dairy, Fruit and Vegetable, Livestock and Seed, Poultry, and Tobacco. The programs employ specialists who provide standardization, grading and market news services for those commodities. They enforce such federal laws as the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act and the Federal Seed Act. AMS commodity programs also oversee marketing agreements and orders, administer research and promotion programs, and purchase commodities for federal food programs. • http://www.commoditygrowers.org/ - Commodity Growers Cooperative (CGC), an affiliate of the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association, developed this Web site to provide information to the numerous farmers who call and request information about everything from grapes to goats, from Internet marketing to exports and from writing a business plan to starting a coop. CGC has worked since 1993 to help tobacco farmers seeking to diversify their family farm operations and develop markets for other products to supplement farm income. The goal of Commodity Growers Cooperative is to 6 KY Dept. of Agriculture • • • • • • Marketing Means More build prosperous family farms and strong communities through information technology, agriculture diversification, coalition focus, and policy development. http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/ - Amber Waves is published five times per year (April, June, September, and November) by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. www.wikipedia.com – A free encyclopedia. A good source to look up where products are made. http://www.kcee.org/catalog/details.php?entrynum=45&grade=elem – Entrepreneurs of Kentucky (Grades 3-5). Entrepreneurs in Kentucky curriculum package contains 10 lessons that emphasize basic economic concepts and entrepreneurship using Kentucky history, entrepreneurs, and economic development as general themes throughout the lessons. Each lesson provides activities and background materials about one or more Kentucky entrepreneurs. The accompanying videotape provides additional opportunities for students to learn about the lives of Kentucky entrepreneurs. COST: $35 http://www.kcee.org/catalog/details.php?entrynum=63&grade=midd - Entrepreneurs of Kentucky (Grades 6-8) This curriculum package contains 10 lessons that emphasize basic economic concepts and entrepreneurship using Kentucky history, entrepreneurs, and economic development as general themes throughout the lessons. Each lesson provides background materials about one or more Kentucky entrepreneurs. The accompanying videotape provides additional opportunities for students to learn about the lives of Kentucky entrepreneurs. All lessons include activity sheets and a "Connect" section that involves the community. COST: $35. Also available for grades 9-12. http://www.weisenberger.com/ - Weisenberger Mills is located on the South Elkhorn Creek in southern Scott County, Kentucky. The creek has provided the water to power the mill's twin turbines since the early 1800s. Weisenberger Mills offers more than 70 items in various sizes. Its inventory includes flour for any baking purpose, complete mixes for many popular end products, and breading blends for chicken, fish, meats, and vegetables. http://www.windstonefarms.com/ - WindStone Farms is located in the beautiful rolling hills of the Bluegrass State. In 1985 Wayne Shumate and his son, Cliff, planted the first field of thornless Hull blackberries on WindStone Farms in central Kentucky. Eight foothigh blackberry canes are supported by wire strung between pine post in neat rows, giving an essence of a vineyard. There are no weeds or thorns to surmount. Fans of blackberries will love WindStone Farms’ all-natural jam. 7 KY Dept. of Agriculture Marketing Means More WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Pretend you and your partner are the owners of a large dairy farm. Considering the constantly rising costs of milk production, you decide together that your farm business could grow more if you were to sell some value-added products. For instance, you may decide to use your milk to make homemade cheese or ice cream. Work with your partner to decide the best strategy to make your product successful when you put it on the market. Create an illustration or a cartoon series showing the steps you and your partner would take in this process. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Pretend you and your partner are the owners of a large dairy farm. Considering the constantly rising costs of milk production, you decide together that your farm business could grow more if you were to sell some value-added products. For instance, you may decide to use your milk to make homemade cheese or ice cream. Work with your partner to decide the best strategy to make your product successful when you put it on the market. Create an illustration or a cartoon series showing the steps you and your partner would take in this process. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Pretend you and your partner are the owners of a large dairy farm. Considering the constantly rising costs of milk production, you decide together that your farm business could grow more if you were to sell some value-added products. For instance, you may decide to use your milk to make homemade cheese or ice cream. Work with your partner to decide the best strategy to make your product successful when you put it on the market. Create an illustration or a cartoon series showing the steps you and your partner would take in this process. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Pretend you and your partner are the owners of a large dairy farm. Considering the constantly rising costs of milk production, you decide together that your farm business could grow more if you were to sell some value-added products. For instance, you may decide to use your milk to make homemade cheese or ice cream. Work with your partner to decide the best strategy to make your product successful when you put it on the market. Create an illustration or a cartoon series showing the steps you and your partner would take in this process. 8 KY Dept. of Agriculture Marketing Means More Making a Poster: Kentucky Products Advertisements CATEGORY GraphicsClarity Title Labels Graphics Originality Graphics Relevance Use of Class Time Grammar Mechanics Comments 4 Graphics are all in focus and the content easily viewed and identified from 6 feet away. Title can be read from 6 feet away and is quite creative. All items of importance on the poster are clearly labeled with labels that can be read from at least 3 ft. away. Several of the graphics used on the poster reflect an exceptional degree of student creativity in their creation and/or display. All graphics are related to the Kentucky product and make it easier to understand. All borrowed graphics have a source citation. Used time well during each class period. Focused on getting the project done. Never distracted others. There are no grammatical mistakes on the poster. Capitalization and punctuation are correct throughout the poster. 15-16 → Distinguished 13-14 → Proficient 11-12 → Apprentice 10 or below → Novice 3 Most graphics are in focus and the content easily viewed and identified from 6 feet away. Title can be read from 6 feet away and describes content well. 2 Most graphics are in focus and the content is easily viewed and identified from 4 feet away. Title can be read from 4 feet away and describes the content well. Almost all items of importance on the poster are clearly labeled with labels that can be read from at least 3 ft. away. One or two of the graphics used on the poster reflect student creativity in their creation and/or display. Several items of importance on the poster are clearly labeled with labels that can be read from at least 3 ft. away. The graphics are made by the student, but are based on the designs or ideas of others. All graphics are related to the Kentucky product and most make it easier to understand. All borrowed graphics have a source citation. Used time well during each class period. Usually focused on getting the project done and never distracted others. All graphics relate to the Kentucky product. Most borrowed graphics have a source citation. There is 1 grammatical mistake on the poster. There is 1 error in capitalization or punctuation. 1 Many graphics are not clear or are too small. Points _____ The title is too small and/or does not describe the content of the poster well. Labels are too small to view OR no important items were labeled. _____ _____ No graphics made by the student are included. _____ Graphics do not relate to the Kentucky product OR several borrowed graphics do not have a source citation. _____ Used some of the time well during each class period. There was some focus on getting the project done but occasionally distracted others. There are 2 grammatical mistakes on the poster. There are 2 errors in capitalization or punctuation. Did not use class time to focus on the project OR often distracted others. _____ There are more than 2 grammatical mistakes on the poster. There are more than 2 errors in capitalization or punctuation. _____ _____ Total _____ 9 KY Dept. of Agriculture Marketing Means More Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese As an ambitious young man growing up in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kenny Mattingly yearned to discover a career in which he could work outdoors. For that reason, when he was 19 and his family bought a 203-acre dairy farm and moved to Glasgow, Kentucky, he felt as though he was right at home in this brand new setting. Yet, as his father turned the farm over to him in the early 1990s, he realized he simply could not continue expanding his business as a dairy farmer with high production costs and falling milk prices. After a farm tour throughout Europe in 1989, Kenny became captivated with the possibility of adding value to the high-quality milk he was already producing on his farm. As he contemplated the idea of making cheese, he attended conferences held by the University of Kentucky and the Department of Agriculture. These seminars not only helped Kenny learn how to market his new product, it gave him the opportunity and cost share to showcase his upcoming product at several future events. Realizing there would be a great opportunity cost if he decided to buy the equipment necessary to make a new product on his farm, he utilized the help of many family members as they built and equipped his new cheese business. After many hours of free labor and approximately $70,000, he was now ready to manufacture his first variety of cheese. Knowing that living within close proximity to the consumer makes a product tastier and healthier, he decided to market his cheese to a few gourmet and upscale stores within the state. Once he learned about the process of marketing, he and his mother, Mary Rose Mattingly, personally met with store owners and managers to let them try the cheese. As they discussed their product, they described their method of manufacturing cheese on their family farm and explained how exceptional their cheese was. Next, they had to wait very patiently, up to five years. Since officially starting in 1998, the business has had great success as a result of a strong basis of sales through retail stores such as Whole Foods and Wild Oats. Mattingly’s business has been featured in major newspapers such as The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, and also the National Public Radio series Kentucky Works. As it has grown at a rate of 50 percent per year each year, the Mattinglys not only are looking at new varieties of cheese to sell, they also are expanding their marketing strategies. In addition, they soon will upgrade their facilities. As you can see, marketing a product into retail stores is not a process that will happen overnight, but with patience and a first-rate product, Kentucky entrepreneurs are able to build a legacy through the example of their own farms. In addition, the success of sales through retail stores not only stimulates and strengthens our state economy; the Mattinglys’ impressive achievement enhances the impressions people have of our beloved state of Kentucky. For instance, when visitors ate 3,000 pounds of Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese at the Kentucky Derby and master chef Emeril Lagasse used the same product as an ingredient in a recipe, Kentucky’s heritage stood strong and proud. Certainly Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese is one product that makes us Kentucky Proud! 10 KY Dept. of Agriculture Marketing Means More OPEN RESPONSE Name______________________ Date__________ Score: 1 2 3 4 One vital aspect in marketing a product is advertising. Advertisements are public notices intended to call attention to something in order to sell a product. a. b. Identify and describe a commercial you have seen that makes you want to buy the product. Explain why this advertisement causes you to want to purchase this particular product. Provide TWO examples. OR Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese is a business that was started by a farmer to add value to his farm. This business markets cheese to local Kentucky businesses. Advertising is an important part of marketing. a. b. Describe how an advertisement can cause you to desire the product. Use TWO examples. Explain the important parts of an advertisement. 11 KY Dept. of Agriculture Marketing Means More Advertising Open Response Writing Rubric Criteria 3 2 Student Reader has presents difficulty information in following sequence, work because which the the story reader can jumps around. follow. Student Student is at Student is demonstrates ease with the uncomfortable full knowledge content but with the of the content fails to content and is and gives more elaborate. unable to than the demonstrate required basic information. concepts. There are no There are no There are no misspelled more than two more than words or misspelled three grammatical words and/or misspelled errors. grammatical words and/or errors. grammatical errors. Work is Work has one Work has completed or two areas three or four neatly; is easy that are areas that are to read. sloppy. sloppy. 15-16 → Distinguished 13-14 → Proficient 11-12 → Apprentice 10 or below → Novice Benchmarks 4 Scores Information in Organization logical, interesting sequence that the reader can follow. Content Knowledge Grammar and Spelling Neatness Comments 12 Points 1 Sequence of information is difficult to follow. ______ Student does not have grasp of information. ______ There are four or more spelling errors and/or grammatical errors. ______ Work is illegible. (Unreadable) ______ Total ______ Marketing Means More Kentucky Counties KY Dept. of Agriculture 13