Create Your Political Party and
Platform- 2016 Political Science Project
You are running for President of the United States
for the 2016 election. Your job is
select one other partner to run as your Vice President. You may use some of the ideas of other political
parties from the past, but you must not copy a previous platform or use a previous
political party's slogan.
Please keep in mind that you must campaign using your real name and that you must represent your gender accurately. Your analysis must include a description of your campaign
plan, including what U.S. states that you plan to
campaign in to defeat the Republicans and the Democrats in 2016. Your party will not copy the Republican or Democratic parties, but instead create a party that will different and challenge them both for
the executive
branch of the nation.
Refer to the rubric that outlines
the general requirements of this
project and their individual point totals.
Specific Requirements to Run for President and Vice President
1.) Page One = Cover page
Must include somewhere
your party name and your party motto
Students can also include
other illustrations, clip art, etc to add to your cover page but it must have the following information in the
Bottom Right Hand Corner
Justified
Name First and Last (all members) Political Science
Political Party Project Hour#
Date
Date
2.) Each student in the group will write a three-minute introductory speech, to introduce your new political party.
This introductory speech should describe
your party's goals, party name, party motto to the class, and your campaign plan based on what states you will visit.
Include your personal
background: what experiences, jobs, positions, and characteristics that you possess which will make you a great presidential candidate and or vice-presidential candidate. Provide you general vision (the big picture) of what you will do for the country and where you will lead the United States as president and vice
president.
Requirements: two pages, single sided, double spaced, typed- for each student
Requirements: two pages, single sided, double spaced, typed- for each student
3.) Write twenty (20) specific
parts (statements) to your party's
individual platform.
(10 statements for each student
in your political party, which cannot be
duplicated)
The
key is to list each plank of your platform
and justify your reasoning in a
small paragraph.
Ask yourself
why should the voters care about the specific policies and programs that you support?
For each of your political planks you
must address each ofthe following three points:
A.)
Describe your position
on the issue (plank), tell us specifically what you
believe.
B.)
Describe why you believe what you believe
about your plank and provide
evidence or support
for your position.
C.)
Convince us that your solution or plan will be successful and why it is the
direction that nation
needs to direct its attention
and act on your plan.
(this portion must be typed, Size 12 font or smaller, single spaced)
Requirements: Single spaced paragraph for each of your twenty (20)
individual
statements with specific
justification. Each plank should be numbered #1-20 in successive order, the issue should
be placed in bold text and underlined. Issues will be justified
in single spaced format with one space in between each of the numbered planks.
4.) A minimum of a 30 second and a maximum length
of a 60 second commercial which will be created
to promote you and your political party. Students can positively promote their party,
but also may critical of other political parties in your class I primary. Each political commercial must be a minimum of 30 - 60 second commercial and must use some of the persuasive techniques
that were discussed
in class earlier in the semester. Each 30 - 60 second commercial must have a typed
script and completed storyboard before cameras
will be issued to students
for filming of their commercial. Each class will
have two cameras
to check out during the two week project so plan your time accordingly.
5.) Finally, conclude your presentation with a one minute plea to the voters to
vote
for you as president and why you are a better option
than the Democrats or Republicans and or any other of the third party candidates who have
presented their political
party.
(this must be one page single sided,
double spaced, typed page per group of two)
6.) Each two member
team must split the responsibilities of running for
President and Vice-President equally. Each member of the two-member team, must speak for roughly the same time period in class to describe their platform and will be expected to answer questions
from the audience during the presentation.
7.) Party Yard
Sign
Your sign must be presented in front of the podium during your presentation and each sign must be of equal size using the exact size of the white
poster board provided in class.
Your individual party sign must be colored and be attractive
to the voters. Your party yard sign must be hand produced and not computer
generated. Your party sign will be attached to the podium
during your entire presentation.
8.) Each student is responsible to review each of the individual
platforms that are presented in class by their fellow classmates.
Each student must take notes on the strengths
and weaknesses of each of the platforms
presented. You will be responsible to vote on the two candidates that have the most effective platform
and presentation in the primary election on Wednesday,
June 5th, 2013.
9.) Each student group (third political party) is also expected to orally present their third party in a maximum seven minute presentation to their class before the primary election. This
presentation can be multimedia or using any format that your party desires,
but each party must create
an exciting and convincing presentation concerning why we should
vote for your third political party.
Due Date:
Friday, May 31st, 2013 Start of Class!
No exceptions!
You will be expected to present your platform entirely,
beginning on ______as a
two-member team running for President and Vice President
of the United States.
Student Names:
Class Hour:
Party Name:
Party Motto/Slogan:
(50
points) Intro. Statement
(10 points) Party Name:
(10 points) Party
Motto:
(100 points)
Party Platform Statements (35 points) Party
Sign:
(20 points) Presentation Techniques:
(50 points) 30 second
Commercial (Video):
(25 points) Review of Each Campaign :
Detail Two Strengths of the Party
Presentation:
Detail Two Weaknesses of the Party Presentation:
TOTAL POINTS
I 300 POINTS
Helpful links and resources
Democratic National Committee
Republican National Committee
RonPaul.com
CNN Election Center
Ontheissues.org
2012 Election Pro/Con.org
Election 2012 NYTimes.com
politico.com - election 2012
Politics1.com
Presidentialcandidates.org
Wikipedia - third party candidates
U.S. News & World Report - Election 2012
