ELECTION PROJECT PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY THE STANDARDS: Students will know the role played by participants in the organization

and function of the American political system and understand and interpret current events as they relate to American Government. DIRECTIONS: Students will be organized into groups of about 5 in size. Students will organize a political party for president. They will use a real life person running for office as the candidate (Celebrities, first come first serve). You must have a platform and be an ideological party. You may not support or discuss the legalization of drugs or alcohol. This will be a summative assessment that will be broken up into several assignments with different due dates for each. This is worth 50pts CRITERIA: 1) Candidate Announcement-This will be a 1 page essay announcing your candidate and why you have selected them. Briefly highlight your goals and reasons for running. This speech should be between 1-2 minutes long. You must have signs made for your supporters to cheer you on at this rally and have your wiki Page ready. 2) There will be debate held during the class period. It will be an open forum, in which the candidates are asked questions from the audience. Some members will be graded on the candidates preparedness to answer questions as well as the questions they ask during the forum. The following day the Wiki page for your party should be updated with a press release. 3) Each group will turn in a 2-3 page typed platform outline on their issues with a claim statement for each of topic. A platform outline will identify the problem and their solution to the following issues: a. Immigration b. Foreign Policy/Iran/Syria/War on Terror c. Education/College Costs d. Gun Control e. Federal Spending/Debt. You must cite your sources using proper MLA format. 4) Each team will create a poster or newspaper cartoon on their candidate to be displayed in the classroom. The poster will be graded on its originality and creativeness. 5) Each team will create a commercial to be shown in class for the purpose of educating voters on your candidate. Students will be exposed to proper propaganda techniques and be expected to use them throughout the commercial. The commercial is to be 3-5 minutes in length and EVERYONE from the group must be in the commercial. If you cannot make it, you will have to make your own commercial or write a paper. This will be the only group grade. 6) Each team must prepare and deliver a speech to the class before the election(3-4 min). A copy of the speech will be turned in for credit. The speech will emphasize why the candidate is the best choice over the competitors for the office. Issues and solutions should be discussed. The Wiki page once again will need to be updated the following day with a press release. 7) Election Day-students may not vote for their own candidate. After the results, each student will write a 1 page reflection paper on what they would have done differently to change the outcome of the election. If your candidate won the election, you only need a page essay discussing your victory and what you did to make it happen.

ELECTION PROJECT PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ROLES: 1) Each team will need someone to be the candidate. Attendance is a must for they have to be present for speeches and debates. You will be graded on your speaking abilities and your preparedness for each campaign event. You will need to turn in prepared comments for the debate to the teacher. You will need to dress up for speaking events. You will write and turn in both the announcement and your campaign speech as well. 2) Each team needs a campaign manager. He or she is the brains behind the outfit. They are in charge of the platform outline and organizing the commercial. Your will be graded on the outline. 3) Each team needs a public relations person. They design posters or ads and create the signs for the announcement. They will also need to design a logo for the team to be displayed on the debate day. 4) Each team will need a webpage manger that will design the candidates website wiki page and update it with press releases for the announcement, post-debate press release, post-campaign speech release, and post commercial update. Clarify your partys positions and attack your opponents pointsif you dare. All release are due the day after the campaign event (expect the announcement). 5) Teams may need a researcher/fact checker, who will be in charge of gathering information for the campaign. You will provide sources to the other members for their projects. You will need to turn in a copy all research to the teacher through an annotated works cited page. You must turn in one source for each of the issues that were not found by the group. You will also manage and organized the groups Etherpad page. Make sure your sources are reliable. You will also create and turn in questions to ask other candidates during the debate. You will be graded on the quality of your sources and richness of your annotations. 6) The whole team is encouraged to post two links to the team Etherpad page or discussion board that provides information and data on the campaign issues. You will write three sentences that explain what the source is all about. THINK OF IT THIS WAY: You will need to find information that supports or defends your CLAIM aka your platform. It is good idea to have the team breakup the different campaign subjects among members. Make sure your sources are reliable. Teams that do this have a much better chance of winning.

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THE ISSUES: 1) Immigration- What should be done with the undocumented workers in the U.S.? What about their kids and family members? Should the border security be changed? 2) Foreign Policy-Pick a hot spot in the world and what should be done about it 3) Education-What should be done with public funding for school? The cost of college? Job Training? What national standards should the national government promote? 4) Gun Control-create a weapons sale/safety plan that you believe would be most effective for the country 5) Federal Spending/Debt-Be creative with a plan to reduce the nations debt/spending plans. ***Any plan that you create that cost money, needs to know how revenue will be raised to pay for it. Grade Breakdown Your individual tasks Commercial (Group) Reflection paper TOTAL 20 points 20 points 10 points 50 points summative

ELECTION PROJECT PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY Reflection Paper Rubric Directions: After the results, each student will write a 1 page reflection paper on what they would have done differently to change the outcome of the election. If your candidate won the election, you only need a page essay discussing your victory and what you did to make it happen. DO NOT SIMPLY BLAME A PRESON OR YOUR GROUP. _______ (4 pts) Student discuss his or her election projects strengths and weaknesses. Student identifies and describes why their group won or lost in detail by providing examples.

_______ (4 pts) Student explains in detail what they would change if they could do this campaign again. Be specific!!

_______ ( 2pts) The paper represents the student as a quality producer. It is turned in on time and spelling and grammar do not interfere with paper. ______Total Points Comments:

Commercial Rubric Target: Each team will create a commercial to be shown in class for the purpose of educating voters on your candidate. Students will be exposed to proper propaganda techniques and be expected to use them throughout the commercial. Rubric (20pts.) ____ (6pts) ____ (4pts) ____ (5pts) ____ (3pts) ____ (2pts) Proper propaganda techniques are CLEARLY used throughout the commercial Commercial represents the team as quality producers (It is polished & turned in on time) Issues are explained/discussed/highlighted that relate to the election assignment The commercial illustrates the teams creativity and originality It meets the time frame of 3-5 minutes

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