Create an editorial cartoon about one of the issues or people of focus in the investigation of scandal in the White House. Research President Johnson s impeachment and President Nixon s resignation in order to compare and contrast their situations to those of President Clinton. Learn about the impeachment process and present the findings to the class. Research one of the non-presidential impeachment trials or convictions, and compare and contrast the trial to the trial of President Clinton. Then distribute the surveys to a chosen population, calculate and graph responses for each question, and analyze the findings.
Students then post the survey results in a prominent area of the school.
Create graphs that illustrate fluctuations in public opinion, and compare these polls to the decisions made by Congress. Media Studies -Watch the evening news every night for one or two weeks, and maintain a viewing log of coverage on this news story. Keep a scrapbook of news articles about the presidential impeachment inquiry. Each time an article is published, the student clips it and pastes it into the scrapbook, and writes a brief summary and reflection about the article. The New York Times on the Web s special section, The President Under Fire, is a vast resource of news articles, impeachment documents, video and audio clips, a news poll, and profiles about the impeachment investigation.