Getting to Know Our Elected Officials

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Getting to Know Our Elected Officials

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Who is your favorite elected official? Students choose an elected official to research, and share their information in a report. The report must be focused, contain supporting details from various sources, and use correct conventions including indentation.

Education Levels:

3, 4, 5

Subject:

Writing (composition), Process Skills

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Medium:

Text/HTML

Fee Status:

Free

Online provider:

Beacon Learning Center

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Keywords:

Elected officials, Politicians, Research skills, Elections

Mediator:

Elementary school teachers

Publisher:

Beacon Learning Center

Contributor:

Sandi King

Is Part Of:

http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/UnitPlan/5197.htm

Language:

English

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Language Arts, English

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Language Arts (1996)

Strand B: Writing

Standard 1: The student uses writing processes effectively.

The student produces final documents that have been edited for

correct spelling;
correct use of punctuation, including commas in series, dates, and addresses, and beginning and ending quotation marks;
correct capitalization of proper nouns;
correct paragraph indentation;
correct usage of subject/verb agreement, verb and noun forms, and sentence structure;
and correct formatting according to instruction.

5. uses correct paragraph indentation

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Language Arts (1996)

Strand B: Writing

Standard 1: The student uses writing processes effectively.

The student produces final documents that have been edited for

correct spelling;
correct use of punctuation, including commas in series, dates, and addresses, and beginning and ending quotation marks;
correct capitalization of proper nouns;
correct paragraph indentation;
correct usage of subject/verb agreement, verb and noun forms, and sentence structure;
and correct formatting according to instruction.

2. uses conventions of punctuation (including but not limited to commas in a series, dates, and addresses; beginning and ending quotation marks)

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Language Arts (1996)

Strand B: Writing

Standard 1: The student uses writing processes effectively.

The student drafts and revises writing in cursive that

focuses on the topic;
has a logical organizational pattern, including a beginning, middle, conclusion, and transitional devices;
has ample development of supporting ideas;
demonstrates a sense of completeness or wholeness;
demonstrates a command of language including precision in word choice;
generally has correct subject/verb agreement;
generally has correct verb and noun forms;
with few exceptions, has sentences that are complete, except when fragments are used purposefully;
uses a variety of sentence structures;
and generally follows the conventions of punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.

1. focuses on a central idea or topic (for example, excluding loosely related, extraneous, or repetitious information)

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Language Arts (1996)

Strand B: Writing

Standard 1: The student uses writing processes effectively.

The student produces final documents that have been edited for

correct spelling;
correct use of punctuation, including commas in series, dates, and addresses, and beginning and ending quotation marks;
correct capitalization of proper nouns;
correct paragraph indentation;
correct usage of subject/verb agreement, verb and noun forms, and sentence structure;
and correct formatting according to instruction.

3. uses conventions of capitalization (including but not limited to proper nouns, titles, first word of a direct quotation)

Conforms To

Sunshine State Standards Grade Level Expectations: Language Arts (1996)

Strand B: Writing

Standard 1: The student uses writing processes effectively.

The student drafts and revises writing in cursive that

focuses on the topic;
has a logical organizational pattern, including a beginning, middle, conclusion, and transitional devices;
has ample development of supporting ideas;
demonstrates a sense of completeness or wholeness;
demonstrates a command of language including precision in word choice;
generally has correct subject/verb agreement;
generally has correct verb and noun forms;
with few exceptions, has sentences that are complete, except when fragments are used purposefully;
uses a variety of sentence structures;
and generally follows the conventions of punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.

4. uses supporting ideas, details, and facts from a variety of sources to develop and elaborate the topic

This data provided by the Achievement Standards Network

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