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12th grade elections - voting rubrics
Fun Rhetorical Situation Project for AP Language or High School English
Looking for a fun project for AP Language or high school English to introduce rhetorical situation (speaker, purpose, and audience)? In this fun, multi-day writing and video project, groups of students just learning about rhetorical analysis, ethos/pathos/logos, and other essentials work together to launch a new political party, write a short speech, then adapt that speech to each of the audiences they encounter on the campaign trail! This project bundle includes a detailed teacher's guide, edit
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10th - 12th
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Debate Rubric
Having an in-class debate and struggling to determine guidelines for your students or grade them quickly on the fly? This handy rubric will enable you to grade students rapidly with content-based assessments during a debate. This file comes as a zip folder with a doc and pdf version. Feel free to modify scores and print for as many classes as you want. Please do not share on the internet. Do you love it? Let me know how you used it! Did you find an error? Let me know! Have a question? Reach out!
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Project Rubrics Bundle
Interest Group Speed Dating Activity (AP Gov Activity)
This is a fabulous AP Government activity - one of my students' favorite activities. This is a fun way to teach students how interest groups influence policy. In interest group speed dating, each student is assigned a different interest group (the project instructions have a list of interest groups). Students will research their interest group and create a resume for their interest group. The project instructions contain questions interest group resumes must answer and a sample resume to guide s
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10th - 12th
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Improving American Elections and Voting: A Project-Based Learning Experience
Engage your students in this in-depth project-based learning activity where they get to propose reforms to the American election system. In this activity, students work collaboratively to create their own interest group and develop a persuasive campaign to present before the "Presidential Commission on Electoral Reform." In their groups, students seek to identify three major areas of reform and propose solutions to these areas to help improve America's election system. This is a great activity f
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9th - 12th
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U.S. Government: Elections Exam with FRQ (+ Answer Key & Rubric)
Are you teaching U.S. Government? This exam culminates a unit on Elections - one of my personal favorites!!! I have used this exam with both my AP U.S. Government students and U.S. Government students...can be split into parts as the exam is divided into topics which correlate with CCSS. This exam also includes a choice of two FRQ prompts that are often assessed on the AP U.S. Government - includes a scoring rubric. For an AP class, the True/False, matching, and fill-in-the-blank can be easily r
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9th - 12th
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Elections and Voting in America Test Bank
This great collection of test questions provides teachers with a wide array of options in developing a test on American elections and voting. The test bank includes three sections of matching and vocabulary (14 questions total); five binary choice sections (32 questions total); six multi-part short-answer questions; thirty multiple-choice questions; one essay with a rubric and student brainstorming guide. Questions cover a wide array of topics, such as: the role of third parties; the Electoral C
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9th - 12th
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A Closer Look at the Electoral College with Argumentative Essay
This activity has students look at the original Constitution’s design for the Electoral College, how that was altered with the 12th amendment, and how the Electoral College operates today by filling in an Electoral College map based on the results from the 2016 election (although I don’t tell students which election it was until they’ve completed the map…they normally figure it out as they go). Once students understand just HOW the Electoral College works, I have them read two articles, one in s
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9th - 12th
Reflecting on American Elections: A Writing Activity
Engage students in critical thinking and writing by having them compose a personal editorial about the American election system. This assessment helps students reflect on the election system and possible weaknesses as well as reforms. Lesson includes the prompt, a rubric, and student brainstorm guide.
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9th - 12th
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Current Event Presentation Project
With everything going on in the world now, it is important for our students to explore current events and connect them to their own life, class, or other points in history! This assignment sheet in rubric will allow students to dive into one current topic and be assessed on their presentation, depth of the article they choose, the connections they make either to their generation or the class, and prove this topic has global significance. It also includes a questioning phase at the end of each pr
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8th - 12th
The 1932 Election with Hey Arnold!
Present the big election of 1932 through the context of Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold! Students will be filling out graphic organizer describing the characters Mr. Simmons and Mr. Wartz, then draw comparisons to the historical figures Hoover and Roosevelt. Works great with nearly any secondary level for creating multiple connections to content!
This lesson will cover the election of 1932 between Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. We will more closely look into the political ideologies tha
Grades:
6th - 12th
Presidential Election 2020 - Choice Board Rubric
This Rubric goes along with my Presidential Election 2020 Choice Board.
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5th - 12th
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Project: President
I used this with Mickey Mouse, GI Joe, Barbie, Bugs Bunny, and Mr. Potato Head to teach about the presidency and other topics.
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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