The Executive Branch: Presidential Research Project

You will utilize your fact sheets and other resources in order to a two page research paper about your president. Information that you need to include about your president:

 Biographical information (where from, college, family, background, etc.)  Political beliefs (what did he believe and what did he do? What was his party affiliation?)  With what historical event is your president most associated? o Other noteworthy events???  Based on the research, do you believe that your president believed in a strong executive branch or not? o Back this up with specific facts/examples.

*All papers must conform to MLA guidelines for writing research papers. *Two pages on to a third *Three sources (two electronic one book)

*Parenthetical references and works cited must be completed in order for you to receive full credit.

*All late papers will be reduced by half a grade; papers not turned in will be considered incompletes until they have been turned in.

Criteria Points 0-2 3 4 5 Paper Paper Research paper conforms to MLA Paper does Paper mostly reflects somewhat ____/10 guidelines. not conform. conforms. MLA conforms. guidelines. Complete works cited no works and works cited complete Accurate and completed works cited. cited accurate ____/15 incomplete with some provided. works errors. cited. Paper is Paper is not Well Excellently somewhat of Well written and researched paper. well written researched written and ____/15 a quality or researched. and written. researched. paper. Some Parenthetical PR's done No Parenthetical references are done accurately attempt at references accurately parenthetical ____/5 and completely. parenthetical done and references. references. incorrectly. completely. No Spelling/grammer/punctuation/capitalization 5-7 errors 4-6 errors 2-3 errors 0-1 errors ____/5 errors. Total--- ____/50 -> Teacher Comments: