Complete the Tic-Tac-Toe Chart Below by Completing Three BRANCHES Review Activities. You

Name______

Date______

Block ______

·  Complete the tic-tac-toe chart below by completing three BRANCHES review activities. You may choose to complete any three activities that are in the same row, column or diagonal direction.

·  Mark the boxes of the activities you complete by highlighting the box or crossing it out with an “x”.

·  Make sure to get the individual project directions for the assignments you choose from the display board in your Civics classroom – and read the rubric on the back of this paper.

·  Attach any materials you used/made to complete each task to this paper before you turning it in.

·  All activities must be completed by ______March 11th (A-day) March 12th (B-day)______..

·  This will count as a 75-point project grade!!

Track a bill of the U.S. Congress / Create a fictitious Facebook page of any Congressperson / Create a “bag of evidence” for an important U.S. Supreme Court case
Research and creatively express key information about a U.S. President. / Creatively review the Civil Rights Movement / Create and explain the hats/jobs of the President
Review key vocabulary from the Judicial Branch / Make a board game showing the legislative process / Create a brochure of one of the presidential Cabinet Departments

OPTION 1A Name______

TRACK A BILL IN CONGRESS

Research any current or previous bill that’s been presented in the United States Congress, making sure to include FIVE of the following elements/information:

1.  The name of the bill (full title and #)

2.  The author(s) of the bill and their home state(s)

3.  The originating person or group that developed the idea for the bill

4.  The house in which it originated – including the date it was added to the docket/calendar

5.  The name of the committee(s) that reviewed the bill

6.  Any important quotes mentioned during the bills debate(s)

7.  The final vote report from each house of Congress

8.  Any “riders” that were added to the bill and who authored each

9.  Clips or quotes from various media reports about the bill

10.  The last date it was worked on (either when it was signed, “killed”, vetoed or referred back for further work)

This project can be done in any of the following ways:

·  A multi-paragraph essay

·  A flow map

·  A timeline

·  A children’s book/story

OPTION 1B Name______

CREATE A FICTITIOUS FACEBOOK PAGE ABOUT A MEMBER OF THE U.S. CONGRESS

Research any current member of Congress and create a fictitious Facebook page for that person.

This “Facebook page” can be made using a computer template or on paper, but is NOT to actually be created.

YOU CAN FIND A LINK TO A FAKE FACEBOOK PAGE BY GOING TO:

·  GLOBAL DRIVE

·  FAKEBOOK TEMPLATE (IT IS A WORD DOCUMENT)

It must contain the following information:

1.  The full name of the Congressperson

2.  A picture of the Congressperson

3.  Their birthday (month, day and year)

4.  Their home state

5.  What political party they’re a member of

6.  The house of Congress they’re in

7.  Their family information (relationship status, kids, etc.)

You should also create some “posts” for your character that could include information like:

1.  What committee(s) they’re in

2.  What bill(s) they’re working on/sponsoring

3.  Key issues affecting their state

4.  Their thoughts about current event(s)

5.  Information about their political party

6.  Future election hopes

7.  Actual quotes they’ve said

8.  Posts from fake constituents and their response

OPTION 1C Name______

“Bag it” Supreme Court Case Assignment

Assignment: You will create a “bag it” project that presents information about a major Supreme Court case in American history.

Task: You will essentially be creating a poster board; you will just use a paper bag instead of a poster. The outside of your bag must include “clues” to help your classmates guess what case you researched. These “clues” may include what type of case it is (criminal or civil), the circumstances that led up to the court case (without names), what amendment(s) the case challenged, how it affected U.S. society, how it affects you personally, how many times the case was appealed, the decade it occurred in, etc. The details, facts and “evidence” of the actual case must be included on the inside of the bag. This information should include the title of the case, the exact date when it occurred (year), where the case originated (State), what the final ruling of the court was – including the final vote, and any important evidence or testimony that was discussed during the trial.

Here is a list of the Supreme Court cases you may choose from.

Ø  Alexander v. Sandoval
Ø  Bethel School District v. Fraser
Ø  Bolling v. Sharpe
Ø  Brown v. Board of Education
Ø  Bush V. United States
Ø  California v. Acevedo
Ø  Cherokee Nation V. Georgia
Ø  Clay v. United States
Ø  Cruzan v. Missouri
Ø  Dennis v. United States
Ø  Dred Scott v. Sandford
Ø  Engel v. Vitale
Ø  Escobedo v. Illinois
Ø  Ex parte Milligan
Ø  Furman v. Georgia
Ø  Gibbons v. Ogden
Ø  Gideon v. Wainwright
Ø  Gregg v. Georgia
Ø  Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
Ø  Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. US
Ø  Illinois v. Wardlow
Ø  Katz v. United States
Ø  Korematsu v. United States
Ø  Lemon v. Kurtzman
Ø  Loving v. Virginia / Ø  Mapp v. Ohio
Ø  Marbury v. Madison
Ø  McCulloch v. Maryland
Ø  Miranda v. Arizona
Ø  New Jersey v. T.L.O.
Ø  New York Times v. United States
Ø  Plessy v. Ferguson
Ø  Reno v. Condon
Ø  Roth v. United States
Ø  Schenck v. United States
Ø  Sheppard v. Maxwell
Ø  Texas v. Johnson
Ø  The Bakke Case
Ø  The Gault Case
Ø  The O. J. Simpson Trial
Ø  The Salem Witch Trials
Ø  Tinker v. Des Moines School District
Ø  United States v. American Library Association
Ø  United States v. Nixon
Ø  Veronia School District 47J v. Acton
Ø  Wallace v. Jaffree
Ø  Weeks v. United States
Ø  Yates v. United States

If you would like to research a court case that is not listed above, you must receive permission.

OPTION 2A Name______

Research and creatively express key information about a U.S. President

Choose any President, former or current, of your choice to research, making sure to include information like:

·  Full name of the president and a picture

·  Lifespan of your president (date born to date they passed away)

·  Interesting fact about your president or quotes from your president

·  What # President they were for America and party affiliation

·  Job(s) your President had before they were elected the U.S. President

·  Personal Family information (name of wife, kids, etc)

·  Running mate (who was their Vice President)

·  How long your President was in office (years)

·  Achievement of your President while in office(bills they signed, awards, recognitions, etc)

·  The number of votes they won in the Electoral College

·  Important events or issues that took place in America during your Presidents term

·  Appointments they made to the Supreme Court during their term

·  What they did after they were President

·  Nicknames of your President

·  Where they were born/what state they represented

·  Any other possible information you want to include-

o  hobbies

o  location of their Presidential library

o  pets

o  members of their Cabinet

o  favorite, quote(s), book(s), movie(s), etc

This should be done in the form of a photo story, artifact box, Voki or poster. And it must be COLORFUL and CREATIVE!

This activity must contain at least 5 of the elements for academic students.

Honors students should express at least 8 of these elements in their project.

OPTION 2B Name______

Creatively review the Civil Rights Movement

To show the importance of the Civil Rights Movement, you may complete one of the following activities:

1.  Answer a DBQ (“Document-Based-Question”) analyzing pictures, quotes, news clips from the time era that will help you answer a writing prompt in the form of a multiple paragraph essay.(the paperwork for this is available from your teacher upon request)

2.  Create a poster that depicts key Civil Rights leaders and events.

3.  Write a bibliography about a Civil Rights leader – including a picture.

4.  Create a photostory showing key events in the Civil Rights Movement.

5.  Make a Voki telling the story of one key event in the Civil Rights Movement.

6.  Compare and contrast life for different races before the Civil Rights Movement.

7.  Collect a scrapbook of primary sources from the time era.

8.  Write a fictitious newspaper covering various events from the time era.

9.  Create a timeline showing the events in the Civil Rights Movement.

10. Write an essay about the importance of the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision.

OPTION 2C Name______

Create and explain the hats/jobs of the President

Design and make three-dimensional hats, made out of any material of your choice, that depict the hats/jobs of the President – making sure to include an explanation of each hat and examples of activities the President would be doing while wearing each hat.

The explanation and examples must be attached to each hat.

Honors students must create 5 hats.

Academic students must create 3 hats.

OPTION 3A Name______

Review key vocabulary from the Judicial Branch

To ensure you fully understand the vocabulary terms from the Judicial Branch unit, you need to complete one of the following activities:

·  Write a story using all the words.

·  Make flashcards for each word that contain a picture, definition and sentence.

·  Create a crossword puzzle using all the words – you can do this on your own sheet of paper or use an online program like puzzlemaker.com

·  Make a memory or matching game to review the key words

OPTION 3B Name______

Make a board game showing the legislative process

Creatively show the steps in how a bill becomes a law in any style of your choice.

Make sure to include the rules, game pieces and actual game board.

The game should be detailed and correct in information, as well as creative, colorful and as every game should be….FUN!!

OPTION 3C Name______

CREATE A BROCHURE ABOUT A CABINET DEPARTMENT

Research one of the 15 Cabinet offices of the current president and create an informational brochure. The brochure must contain the information listed below.

It would be easiest to select the "Brochure Template" in Microsoft Word. Create the brochure in the same order listed in the chart below.

Cabinet History
When and under what circumstances was this Cabinet created?
What are some important achievements of this Cabinet department? / Contact Information
List a website address (or addresses) to use in order the receive further information on this Cabinet department. / Title Page
(this is the cover)
Include emblems, logo, pictures describing the department.
Your name, block and teacher should be in the lower right hand corner
Cabinet Secretary
Include a short biography of the current Cabinet secretary, to include but not limited to-
·  age
·  hometown
·  childhood/education facts
·  interests
·  career/achievements before becoming Secretary
·  when he/she was appointed
·  picture / Duties and Responsibilities
Describe what this department is responsible for.
You may include-
·  # of people working in the department
·  current operating budget
·  agencies that work within this department / Current Issues
Briefly describe 2 current issues the department is handling.

GRADING RUBIC

Track a bill
___/10 pts -Title, Bill #, Sponsors
___/10 pts -Content, progress, status of bill
___/5pts - current event or quote / Facebook of Congressperson
___/10 pts -personal information
___/10 pts -five+ posts
___/5 pts- uses a template / Supreme Court case
___/ 10 pts - five+ artifacts of details, evidence, history of case
___/10 pts - 5+ artifacts of case arguements, ruling, precedents
___/ 5 pts- indicate date, criminal or civil
U.S. President
___/ 10 pts- background information
___/ 10 pts- information on term of president
___/ 5 pts- post presidential facts / Civil Rights Movement
___/10 pts- Describe key events or leader according to instructions
___/15 pts- Create a report, presentation according to instructions / Hats of the President
___/ 15 pts- create a hat
___/ 5 pts- explaination
___/ 5pts - examples
Vocabulary- Judicial Branch
___/ 15 pts- use all of judicial vocabulary owrds
___/ 10 pts- activity is created / Board game- legislative process
___/ 15 pts- List steps in the legislative project
___/10 pts- includes visuals and instructions / Brochure-Cabinet Department
___/5 pts- Duties and responsiblities
___/ 20 pts- includes inofrmation on other 5 pages according to project instructions