Harry Potter for President!
Your task is to work together as a team to create a campaign for a fictional character running for office in either the Executive, Legislative, or Judicial branches of government (president, vice president, senator, representative, or judge). Throughout the campaign you will work cooperatively with all members of the group to: summarize the election process, create a budget, create campaign materials (i.e. slogans, commercials, posters), and write and perform a persuasive speech from the character’s perspective. Finally, you will analyze all of the information presented on each candidate to vote in an election. Now you will have created a balanced classroom government!
*Following the final voting activity, students will be asked to write a journal entry reflecting their thoughts and feelings about the government before and after this unit.
Your task is to work together as a team to create a campaign for a fictional character running for office in either the Executive, Legislative, or Judicial branches of government (president, vice president, senator, representative, or judge). Throughout the campaign you will work cooperatively with all members of the group to: summarize the election process, create a budget, create campaign materials (i.e. slogans, commercials, posters), and write and perform a persuasive speech from the character’s perspective. Finally, you will analyze all of the information presented on each candidate to vote in an election. Now you will have created a balanced classroom government!
*Following the final voting activity, students will be asked to write a journal entry reflecting their thoughts and feelings about the government before and after this unit.