Students learn as much as possible about the life and background of the candidate they have chosen. Students create a biography of at least 12 pages that highlights important events in the life of the candidate. The biography should include a variety of photographs. Ask students to leave two unfinished pages for each week that remains in the campaign. The students will write a weekly update about the candidate and share it during the weekly press conference.
Students use daily news updates to track the travels of the candidate they have chosen.
The students record in a journal each stop on the campaign trail and include details about events on those stops. Then students create a weekly time line to share at the weekly press conference. Students create a scrapbook of campaign-related editorial cartoons collected from online and print sources. Ask the students to paste each cartoon onto a separate scrapbook page and write a brief paragraph on the page to explain the point being made by the editorial cartoonist. Students in the group will vote for the best cartoon of the week and share and discuss their choices at the weekly press conference.