"The Political Party Functions" Scrapbook Assignment

BACKGROUND: For this assignment, you will be researching the real life applications of the FIVE functions of a political party by locating recent articles and describing the events in each article.

SOURCE FOR RESEARCH:  Students will need to use online materials to locate articles relating to the five political party functions.

THE ASSIGNMENT:   Create a small scrapbook of current articles (within the last month) that illustrate EACH of the FIVE functions of a Political Party.

Your Scrapbook must include:

  1. Title Page (10 pts.)
  2. Printed articles from the Internet (please try to keep these under ONE page each) that outline a function of Political Parties.  (Feel free to use screen shots of your article from the internet, if that might be easier.)  (5 pts each, total of 25)
  3. Written explanation (at least a paragraph) on your scrapbook page that describes how the function works in your article. (10 points each, total of 50)
  4. Neat and interesting layout, extra points for creativity, additional clipart, nice titles and fonts, etc.  (15 points)

SUBMISSION:  When you are done with your scrapbook, print or compile it, staple it all together and turn it in. This will be due at the end of the week.

GRADING:  This assignment will be worth a total of 100 points!