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Students will individually aim to use socio-economic and political data to determine and predict how each swing state will vote in the upcoming 2016 Presidential Election.

Students will choose a presidential candidate and construct a campaign poster and a lapel campaign button in support of that candidate.

Students will read campaign speeches given by Truman and Dewey in September, 1948, in Salt Lake City, and then compare the two by filling out a checklist of typical campaign speech characteristics.

Document analysis and DBQ Essay on the Cold War.

Students will create a Social Media Campaign for Richard Nixon in hopes of him winning the 1960 Election.

Students will get a chance to a hands-on project and will get to incorporate competition, propaganda, lobbying and victory or defeat.

Using both primary and secondary sources, students will research and analyze the candidates and issues of the 1976, 1980, and 1984 campaigns.

This lesson will allow students to gain insights into the political customs and traditions associated with presidential elections.

This lesson will allow students to evaluate the use of propaganda during presidential election years.

This unit will use primary documents to provide practice in close reading, in identifying tone, and in applying tone recognition to an analysis of nuance in content.