Name______Hour______Political Party Trading Cards

Objective and Purpose: Demonstrate personal growth in the study of the political party members throughout history by creating trading cards. You are to create your very own trading cards depicting political parties or party candidates. Information to include: political parties, candidates, political service record, years of service, liberal, moderate, and conservative issues or ideas of the candidates mentioned.

Guidelines and Expectations 1. Use your class notes, textbooks, magazines, internet, etc… for picture possibilities 2. Each card must be NO LARGER than a 3 x 5 note card. 3. On the front of the card, you must illustrate or have a picture of your political candidate or party and a title of the political party 4. On the back of the card, you must include relevant data, facts, figures, or how/why the person on the front of the card relates to political parties. See examples for required information. 5. All work is to be in COLOR (no markers please…either printed from computer or with colored pencils). 6. All work is to be done NEATLY!!! Make sure that your information is completed in either pen or through word processing. NO WHITE OUT PLEASE!!!! 7. Minimum cards to be completed: 6 8. Cards must be contained in a baggie with this score sheet enclosed. Note: In order to receive any type of credit, you must follow the directions and guidelines closely. If you are not sure what your cards should look like, take a look at baseball cards, Marvel Comic Cards etc…

ANY PLAGIARISM, CHEATING (COPYING OR USING ANOTHER STUDENT’S WORK) WILL EARN YOU AN AUTOMATIC ZERO ON THE ASSIGNMENT. PUT INFORMATION ITO YOUR OWN WORDS TO ENSURE YOU DO NOT PLAGIARIZE!!!!

___Full Credit ___Does Not Have a Minimum of 6 cards ___Cards are not printed in color or the cards have not been colored with colored pencils ___Inadequate information on one or more cards ___not contained in a baggie with score sheet

SCORE: ______/43 points Examples

Front of Card

Republican Party Republican Party

OR

Mitt Romney

Back of Card

Republican Party Republican Party  Date Party was Founded? Mitt Romney Most Recent Candidate for   His Political History President  Most Recent position he  Political Platform on at ran for. least 3 issues like  His Political Platform on at education, military least 3 issues like military spending, economy, spending, economy, abortion, taxes, war on abortion, taxes, war on terror, big business, etc…. terror, big business, etc….  Position on political  Position on political spectrum spectrum  Any other interesting or  Any other interesting or relevant information relevant information