Glogster.com - Legislative Branch Digital Poster

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Assignment: Choose one of the following four categories: Senate, House of Representatives, Salary and Benefits of a Congress Person, Average Congress Person.
Use Glogster.com to create a digital poster which includes a description of your category, pictures, video(s), and interesting facts or stories which come from your category. Find real life examples to bring across your information. Finally, how does this category relate to your life (How is it relevant?).

Rubric:
Knowledge Base - 15
Incorporates all the components of the assignment - 5
Flow of digital poster - 5
Creativity - 5

Due: Monday, March 1, 2010 at the start of class.

Steve Kagen and Tom Petri

Get to know your representative. Start out finding out as much information about your representative first. Find out the personal information and how each candidate stands on the issues related to congress. Use a word document to other form of media to collect and organize your information. Information that should be included.
Personal: Birth date, Parental History, High School Attendance, College and Degree(s), Job History, Election History, chairs or committees held.
Representative information: District, Pro-Choice or Pro-Life, stance on gay rights, stance on school prayer, stance on the second amendment, stance on cloning, stance on capital punishment, stance on the Patriot Act, stance on Health Care, stance on the economy.
Finally, create a one sentence statement which would sum up your representative. (Be as detailed as possible.)

Links listed below may be a help...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kagen
http://kagen4congress.com
http://activote.ontheissues.org/AVA/wi.htm
http://www.activoteamerica.com/WIGO/17/18/19/20/26.html
http://www.issues2000.org/House/Tom_Petri.htm#War_+_Peace
http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=H4310103
http://www.house.gov/petri/profile2.htm
http://www.house.gov/petri/welcome.htm
http://www.house.gov.petri/issues.htm

Due: Monday, March 1, 2010

Block 3 Semester 2

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