U.S.

President Project
Directions to complete your Presidents Project Informative Writing
1. Follow the guide to research the information necessary with using a book or the internet.
2. Then you will start your pre-writing in your writing notebook.
3. When you have completed your pre-writing you need to revise it yourself first.
4. After you have done your own revisions you then can conference with a classmate.
5. Next, revise again utilizing your classmates suggestions.
6. When done you can conference with the teacher.
7. Now you are almost done with the writing part do your final draft on white paper.
8. Upon completion of your final draft you then can start creating your Power Point using the
information you have on your final draft and then you can add pictures, animation, sound,
and other useful tools to display your knowledge of the computer.
9. Rubrics are below, use them as a guide. You will receive two grades for this project one for
the Informational Writing and the other for your Power Point Presentation.

U.S. President Project

(Written and Power Point Presentation)
DUE:
Who: 5pts

a. Name of President + Years in office (e.g. 1789-1797)

b. Vice President
c. First Lady

d. Political Party (Democratic or Republican)(define)

What: 3 pts

What happened during their presidency? (Important Events etc.)

a. In the U.S?
b. In the World?
c. New discoveries & technologies?
Where:2 pts
Where was this president born? Where were their parents born? (tell a little about their family)
Why/Background info: 2 pts
What did they do before they became president? (e.g. prior career; hobbies etc.) Personal
History..
How: 3 pts
What did they do to help/hurt the country (greatest accomplishment/failure)? Were they effective
or ineffective as president? (Support your answer with facts, including statistics or charts/graphs
if applicable).
Interesting facts: 5 pts. Minimum 5 Interesting facts

Presentation Rubric
Power Point Presentation on the Smartboard
4

Completely memorized
Superior eye contact
Superior voice level and command
Superior organization (logical progression using the Power Point )

Occasional glance at the Smartboare

Good eye contact
Good voice inflection and pronunciation
Good voice level and command
Good organization

Frequent use of Smartboard

Weak eye contact
Poor voice inflection and pronunciation
Weak or low voice level and command
Poor organization

Reading directly from Smartboard

Little to no eye contact
Not understandable when presenting
Little to no voice inflection and pronunciation
No organization -i.e. freezing, staring into space, long patches or silence,
etc