Session five: your Final Piece
Olivia @ the BNC
12 October 2020
Please don't look ahead if you haven't done the session yet in the classroom, as that'll ruin the fun!
STEP 1
Have a go at these recap questions. You can use the keyword hints below to help.
- How do elections make a presidential candidate powerful?
- How do elections make the people powerful?
- How do some people in society have more power than others to become president?
- Why do some people feel their vote is less powerful than others?
- What might happen if people didn’t vote?
- What have you heard in the news about the American election over the last few weeks which has influenced your thinking on this issue?
Keyword hints: power, democracy, electoral vote, popular vote, candidate, rules/criteria, policies, make a change, fair/unfair, possible/impossible, powerful/powerless
STEP 2
A Final Piece is the last piece of work you do for each Issue and it brings together everything you have learnt. For this Final Piece you will create your own American voter character and answer interview questions from this perspective. Use the sheet to plan your answers and then write up your interview as a POST and submit it for moderation. Don't forget to mark is as "Final Piece"!
Over to you!
This week, you'll need to start work on your Final Piece - head to WRITE POST and don't forget to save your work.
Comments (18)
13 Oct 2020
Hi Olivia,
ingenious_forest here.
For this final piece, how do you want it to be presented in the post; e.g as a script, or a recollection of what happened?
What perspective would you like it to be from; our citizen's?
Thank you in advance for answering my questions
Hi ingenious_forest. It's totally up to you as to whether you do a script or a recollection but keep in mind that it's going out on a news television programme, so you will need to think about your audience. Your citizen's perspective would be great. If you like, you can film this and upload it rather then write it. Look forward to seeing it!
Thanks Olivia,
I think I will do it as my citizens perspective
ingenious_forest
13 Oct 2020
I’m so excited for our final piece!
That's great to hear! We can't wait to see it!
16 Oct 2020
Hey burnet news!! Me and my class are doing the sheet!! And we have enjoyed it!! It was so much fun and next week we are going to upload our final pieces!! Bye!!
16 Oct 2020
Can't wait for the last piece!
17 Oct 2020
I loved the final piece
17 Oct 2020
thank you,
19 Oct 2020
Hi Olivia,
inegenious_forest again,
I really need to know how we are going to write this piece,
When we answer the questions, do you want it to be formal speech, or should it be written in slang, like "real American speech"?
Thank you in advance for answering my question.
It's a good question, ingenious_forest. My advice would be to keep it formal, so as to avoid the risk of stereotyping or sounding like you're doing a humorous impression. However, you could use words commonly heard in American politics, to make it feel more authentic - e.g. electoral college, "Make America great again", the constitution, etc...
Thanks Tom!
22 Oct 2020
what does vivacious mean???
Hi vivacious _oboe,
The word vivacious means extremely lively and with very high spirits.
selfassured_journalist
04 Nov 2020
In the final piece, do we have to write everything it says in step 1 before we start doing the interview?
Not from step 1, no, discreet_drum. Thanks for asking!
Ok, thanks for responding
05 Nov 2020
thank you for your feedback
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