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Examine Your Own Political Beliefs (do this on your
own):
1. To begin, you need to get a sense of some of the big
political issues facing Canada. It's
time to read up on the issues.
2. After reading up on the issues, it's time to record
your own political beliefs
on a chart. On the chart, you must write down at least
two opinions that you have about each issue. After you write
down your opinions, rate the issues in order of importance
to you. (This means that the issue that you rank as #1 is
the one that you care about most.
3. Find classmates with similar political beliefs and form
a group. You are now a political party.
Research Federal Political Parties (do this as a group)
4. Have a discussion with your group about your political
beliefs. Every person in the group needs to have a chance
to state their top 5 issues.
5. After everyone in your group has had a chance to speak,
it is time to make your first group decision. As a group,
choose your 3 most important issues.
6. Now it is time for your group to research the 15
federal political parties. You are trying to find out
how the parties feel about your top 3 issues. You want to
know which party matches the matches the beliefs of your
party the best. Divide up the work so that each group member
only needs to look at a few parties.
Record your findings on a chart.
7. Get back into your group and share your research information
with the rest of your group. Complete your chart by recording
the information that your other group members gathered.
8. Now that your chart is finished, your group needs to
decide which federal political party matches the beliefs
of your group most closely.
Create Music Video (do this as a group)
9. It is time to create an amazing music video that expresses
the political beliefs of your party. Begin by deciding on
the beliefs that you want to express in the video. Next,
your group needs to create a storyboard (the rough story
of what is going to happen) for the video. Decide on what
type of show you want to create (powerpoint, video in which
you act, a collection of video clips and photos from internet
etc.) Create your storyboard by sketching out what happens
in each scene of your movie. You can do this on paper, or
you can use an on-line tool called Storyboard.
All shows must follow these rules:
(a) the show must be created with
some type of mutimedia software (powerpoint, adobe premier,
moviemaker etc.)
(b) the show must be set to music
that emphasizes the message of the show
(c) the show must clearly show your
political beliefs
(d) the show must contain at least
five statistics
(e) the show must end by stating
which federal political party has your vote.
10. Now that you have completed the storyboard, it is time
to assign jobs to each group member so that you can actually
create the music video. You need someone to be the researcher
(person who goes on-line and finds pictures, video clips,
and statistics). You need someone to turn the storyboard
into a detailed plan (this might look like a script). You
need a technical person who actually works with the software
to create the show. You might need a videographer (if you
choose to use a camcorder).
11. When you finish the show, upload it to youtube.com
and then send the link to the following address: shawna@mapleleafpro.net.
When you do this, a link will be created from your youtude
video to this site.
12. Watch the other music videos that are posted on the
site and then cast your vote.
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