The Political Process Project (250 points)
- Invent a political party and write a political party platform
· Includes a Preamble that outlines your parties main beliefs
· Expresses your beliefs on twenty major political issues
· Makes at least three specific proposals to make the belief a reality
· Party has a relevant name
· Platform is typed and presented professionally
· 75 points
- Write and present a speech to the class
· The candidate is running for President
· Written out in advance
· Use persuasive rhetorical strategies
· Is at least 4 to 5 minutes long
· Is presented professionally with attention to volume, diction, pace, eye contact, physical appearance, and posture
· 25 points
- Keep track of campaign financing
· Record all time spent on the project
· List all donations and expenditures to accomplish your project
· Identify three national interest groups that might support you and explain why they might support you
· You may not spend more than $35 on your campaign
· 25 points
- Create and conduct a political survey
· It will be based on the beliefs in your political party platform
· Your survey will measure the opinions of at least 50 people
· People should come from multiple age ranges (at least ten over the age of 22 and eight over the age of 35)
· Results will be put together using Excel and presented as tables and graphs
· You will get signatures of all people who responded to your survey
· 25 points
- Create an advertising campaign to promote your party and your candidate
· Create 10 voter information pamphlets to advertise your candidate
· Film and edit one 30-second advertisement
· Develop a meaningful slogan
· Design a campaign poster with candidate’s name and party’s name
· 25 points
6. Conduct a national convention
· This is where your group will present in persuasive manner all of the research and information listed above
· Your political party will have 25 minutes in which:
· Your candidate will give their speech
· Your advertisement/ commercial will be shown
· The results of your political survey displayed and explained
· Your campaign finances will be revealed
· In a power point format, you will PERSUASIVELY present and discuss your political party's platform and stance on its 20 issues and the three proposals you have to fulfill them
Survey Project
The purpose of this assignment is to survey potential voters and to find out how they feel about controversial government related issues. Students will design survey questions, administer a survey, collect data, graph data, analyze data, summarize the data, and present the results professionally in your power point at your national convention.
Part I – Creating the Survey
Your team must create ten survey statements based on your political party platform belief statements. The possible responses are: disagree strongly, disagree, agree, or agree strongly.
Part II – Administering the Survey
Your group must survey at least 50 people. Each person surveyed must sign, date, and contact info (phone, email, address, classroom)
Part III – Collecting Information
When the surveys are completed, the data must be collected and totaled. Create a neat table illustrating the totals for each question.
Part IV – Graphing the Information
Every survey question needs to be graphed.
Part V – Analyzing the Data
Each survey question must be analyzed with a short paragraph that describes the data.
Part VI – Presenting the Survey
Your group will present the results of the survey in a folder that contains the collected data tables, the graphs, and the analysis. In a separate envelope, you should turn in your survey results. Your report should have a title page with the names of the authors.
Sample Survey
1. Immigrants to the United States should have the same rights as citizens of the United States / 12 / 30 / 22 / 16
2. Health care … / 12 / 65 / 45 / 65
3. Gay rights… / 32 / 12 / 45 / 65
4. Iraq War…
5. Taxes…
Graphs should look like this.
Signing your name below means you have answered the political survey to the best of your ability. Your contact information will only if it is necessary for the teacher, Miss Eagan at Darien High School, to certify the work performed by the group.
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Rubric for Political Process Project
Describes twenty of your party’s beliefs clearly
Makes three specific proposals to turn beliefs into reality
Party has a relevant, creative name
Party has a relevant, creative slogan
Speech / Always / Excellent / Totally got it / Absolutely / All of it / Yes! / J / A-level / Usually / Very good / Almost there / Pretty much / Most of it / Almost / B-level / Sometimes / Not bad / Working on it / Ehhhhh / Some of it / Not really / C-level / Never / Bad / Long way to go / Start over again / None of it / No L / D and F level
Communicates major party beliefs and proposals
Between 4 and 5 minutes long
Uses rhetorical strategies appropriately and effectively
Professionally presented – attire and posture
Excellent public speaking skills – diction, volume, eye contact, and pace
Campaign Financing / Always / Excellent / Totally got it / Absolutely / All of it / Yes! / J / A-level / Usually / Very good / Almost there / Pretty much / Most of it / Almost / B-level / Sometimes / Not bad / Working on it / Ehhhhh / Some of it / Not really / C-level / Never / Bad / Long way to go / Start over again / None of it / No L / D and F level
Describes how the project was put together and each individual’s role in it
Denotes all donations and expenditures of campaign
Identifies three interest groups that could support your party
Describes how and the interest groups you researched could support your party
Survey / Always / Excellent / Totally got it / Absolutely / All of it / Yes! / J / A-level / Usually / Very good / Almost there / Pretty much / Most of it / Almost / B-level / Sometimes / Not bad / Working on it / Ehhhhh / Some of it / Not really / C-level / Never / Bad / Long way to go / Start over again / None of it / No L / D and F level
Designed 10 well-phrased survey statements
Surveyed 50 people who filled out form fully
Placed final data into one clear table
The results of each survey statement are accurately graphed using Excel
The results of each statement are described
Advertising / Always / Excellent / Totally got it / Absolutely / All of it / Yes! / J / A-level / Usually / Very good / Almost there / Pretty much / Most of it / Almost / B-level / Sometimes / Not bad / Working on it / Ehhhhh / Some of it / Not really / C-level / Never / Bad / Long way to go / Start over again / None of it / No L / D and F level
Create 10 voter information packets that introduce the candidate and the party’s beliefs
Create a 30 second commercial that advertises the candidate similarly to Presidential candidate advertisements
Create a slogan
Make one poster for the candidate and party
Name / Signature / Contact Info (phone/address/email)
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