Civics Research Project - Representative or Elected Official Letter
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Use this complete letter to an elected official kit to upgrade your Civics class with an authentic project that makes your students to be real agents of change with their government!
Cultivating great writing skills isn’t hard. You just need the scaffolded, step-by-step directions and models in one low-prep, everything's-included project kit.
This resource comes in both print PDF and paperless Google files for your flexibility!
Greatness is sharing one's ideas with those who can create change.
This nation was founded as a pioneer of democracy yet a recent Fusion poll found 77% of American millennials couldn’t name one of their senators! Ensure your students are on the right side of this statistic with this real-world letter-writing project.
Challenge your students to engage in their democracy by researching an issue they're passionate about, selecting the appropriate elected official, and writing a letter persuading him or her to consider their position.
This is a perfect project to complement several Social Studies classes: Civics, Current Events, and even science or English classes.
Included in this project kit:
- Project Steps sheet- take students from brainstorming to mailing in 5 simple steps
- Issue Research sheet - give space to complete in-depth research on both sides of the students' chosen topics
- News Media Analysis sheet - provide a graphic organizer to deeply analyze sources researched
- Overview sheet - offer directions to each part of the letter
- Outline sheet - include sentence stems to get them going
- Annotated Sample Letter sheet - provide an example of a finished letter
- Peer / Self Edit sheet - help to catch any aspects that need improvement
- Reflection & Rubrics sheet - give clear expectations for fast scoring
- How-To Skill Sheets - Analyzing a News Source, Creating a Works Cited
- PDF & Google files of all student materials
Note: student worksheets are available as print PDF and editable Google Docs; reference sheets are available as print PDF and uneditable Google Slides
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