8th-Position+Papers+and+Commercials

After exploring campaign commericals and the use of propaganda in politcal campaigns students worked as a class to generate a list of issues important in last year's presidential election. Students worked in pairs to research an issue important to the 2008 presidential election. After researching the issue students were asked to create a position paper on the issue for their English/ Writing class After completing the polition paper student were assigned to a candidate and researched to candidate's position on their issue. Students then created a commerical for the candidate on the issue using Photostory. || =[|The Living Room Candidate] =
 * Project Description
 * =Pre-research=

News Websites
= [|EBSCOhost]  = =[|CNN]= =[|MSNBC]= =[|FOXNews]= =Political Party and Candidate Web Sites=

|| [|Obama War] ||  ||   || [|Obama Health Care] ||  ||   || [|Obama Energy] ||  ||   || [|Obama Education] ||  ||   || [|Obama Economy] ||  ||   ||   ||
 * =Sample Projects= ||  ||   ||   ||
 * [|McCain War]
 * [|McCain Health Care]
 * [|McCain Energy]
 * [|McCain Education]
 * [|McCain Economy]