Duck+for+President+Reinforcing+Activity

After reading this book, the teacher will present the students with a KWL chart. This will help the teacher find out what the students know about elections and what they would like to know about elections. The whole class will then have a discussion based on what the students wrote down on his or her charts.

The teacher will prompt questions (unless the students mentioned this on their KWL charts) to the students asking them what they think the duties and responsibilities would be for being president, vice president, governor, etc. The students will create a chart that includes the duties of each position and the overlapping responsibilities each position may have. Find out what students think would be fun or interesting if they were in one of these positions.

The class will then hold its own election. The teacher will take nominations for president and vice president of the class. The nominees will need to create a speech explaining the characteristics that they have that would make them suitable for the position. The class will vote to determine the president and vice president. For the next week or so these two students will be responsible for certain jobs that the class has established. These jobs could include collecting papers, passing out papers, taking attendance, etc. When a week or two has gone by the president and vice president will explain what they liked and did not like about their positions. This will connect to how Duck did not like each one of his positions for specific reasons. All of the students will then write about their view of office positions using the information gained from reading this book and seeing two of their classmates be president and vice president. They can then add what they have learned to the “L” section of their KWL chart.



Other Social Studies Standards that this book could teach include: Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities