Mom & Pop Home School

My friend tajott posted on a home school forum in search of coloring pages of historic black Christian missionaries. Nobody could find any, anywhere on the web. I thought that was really sad, so I asked her to point me to some pictures, and I made some. So for all those kids out there who need some black Christian role models to color, here are some pages for you.  Included, as per request, are Lott Carey, Amanda Smith, and Rev. Francis Burns.

These pages can be printed, copied, and used to your heart’s delight for personal or church use. If you want to do anything else with them, please check with me first. Thanks!

Here you go tajott: http://www.decheck.com/blackmissionaries.pdf

Better late than never! Here’s installment number 3, focusing on campaign advertising.

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Contents of this installment:

1. “Political Advertising” section page
2. “Production and Propaganda” info page 1
3. Info page 2
4. Campaign Ad Production Analysis Worksheet - page 1
5. Worksheet page 2
6. Worksheet page 3
7. Instructions for propaganda pages
8. Propaganda page 1
9. Propaganda page 2
10. Propaganda Booklet: Name Calling
11. Propaganda Booklet: Glittering Generalities
12. Propaganda Booklet: Transfer
13. Propaganda Booklet: Testimonial
14. Propaganda Booklet: Plain Folks
15. Propaganda Booklet: Bandwagon
16. Propaganda Booklet: Fear
17. Propaganda Booklet: Faulty Logic

18-34. Black and White (B&W) versions of the above.

Links:

• The Washington Post has a Political Ads Database that includes ads from the current campaign
  
• The Living Room Candidate - Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004.
• The Thirty Second Candidate - Click “Tricks of the Trade” for an interesting demonstration of how video can be edited to convey different messages for campaign ads.

[*Note: Much of the information about propaganda on these pages is adapted from PropagandaCritic.com.]

This week’s installment of election notebook pages focuses on the primary season. With “Super-duper Tuesday” coming up, I thought it would be fun to track the winners of each state and the delegate count for each candidate.

You may notice that for some states the Democratic Party has a delegate count of zero. This is not an error. Those states have been stripped of all their convention delegates as a punishment for changing the date of their primary election or caucus in a way that violated Democratic Party rules. So the Democratic Party will not allow those states a voice in choosing the Democratic presidential candidate this year.

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Contents of This Installment:

1. “Primary Elections” section page
2. “Preparation and Primaries” info page 1
3. info page 2
4. Blank “Primaries and Caucuses” tracker page
5. Republican “Primaries and Caucuses” tracker page 1
6. Republican tracker page 2
7. Democratic “Primaries and Caucuses” tracker page 1
8. Demcratic tracker page 2
9. Blank Primary Election Tracker Map (Choose a color for each candidate, and color the states according to who won)
10. Republican Election Tracker Map
11. Democratic Election Tracker Map
12. Blank “Race to the Nomination” bar graph (Candidates across the bottom, number of delegates up the side; color in the bar up to the number of delegates awarded to the candidate)
13. Republican “Race to the Nomination” bar graph (Top four candidates; use blank graph for additional if desired. The “magic number” is marked on the bar.)
14. Democratic “Race to the Nomination” bar graph (Top three candidates, plus one space for a write-in fourth candidate. The “magic number” is marked on the bar.)
15. B&W “Primary Elections” section page
16. B&W “Preparation and Primaries” info page 1
17. B&W info page 2
18. B&W Blank “Primaries and Caucuses” tracker page
19. B&W Republican “Primaries and Caucuses” tracker page 1
20. B&W Republican tracker page 2
21. B&W Democratic “Primaries and Caucuses” tracker page 1
22. B&W Demcratic tracker page 2
23. B&W Blank Primary Election Tracker Map
24. B&W Republican Election Tracker Map
25. B&W Democratic Election Tracker Map
26. B&W Blank “Race to the Nomination” bar graph

Links–Preparing to run for president:

• Constitution of the United States: transcription and downloadable images. Qualifications for president are in Article 2, Section 1, near the top of page 2 of the Constitution.
• Federal Election Commission
• Mitt Romney discusses presidential run with family
• Hillary Clinton invites supporters to a conversation about her candidacy.
• Informal announcement of candidacy by John McCain
  
• Formal announcement by Barack Obama (If you don’t want to watch the whole speech, start at about six minutes in.)
• Mike Huckabee campaign ad

Primary Election Links:

• NY Times Democratic Primary Calendar
• NY Times Republican Primary Calendar
• CNN “Republican Scorecard” (Good place to get delegate counts and percentage of vote statistcs)
• CNN “Democratic Scorecard”

*Note: CNN’s website also has information about Democratic “superdelegates” and Republican “unpledged” delegates, which may be helpful in clarifying who these people are, what they do, and why they’re important.

Next Week’s Topic: (I confess I haven’t decided yet. Political Parties? Propaganda? Do you have suggestions?)

I’ve just begun creating a series of notebooking pages to help us in our observations of the U.S. presidential elections in 2008. In the spirit of “we’re all in this together”, I’ll be posting them here a few at a time as they’re finished, about once a week, give or take, depending on what’s going on in our lives. I offer them at no charge for anyone who’d find them useful. Please note, however that they are copyrighted. You have my permission to make as many copies for your own use as you’d like, including for co-op groups and schools, but I reserve all other rights. This means you may not redistribute the file by uploading it on another site. If you’d like to share with a friend, and I hope you will, please link to this page.

This installment focuses on learning about each of the current candidates for president. Most of the pages are in color, including a page for each of the current Republican and Democratic candidates. There is also a blank candidate page to use if you wish to research additional candidates from the minor political parties. (Depending on the age, interest level, and attention span of your student, you may want to choose only a few of the leaders in each party rather than researching all the candidates.) Also included are five election-themed notebook pages to use for any purpose you like, such as adding news clippings about your favorite candidate, collecting memorable quotes from the debates, listing constitutional requirements for the office of president, the duties of the president, and so forth.

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Contents of this installment:

1. Cover page
2. “Meet the Candidates” section page
3. Blank candidate page
4. John McCain
5. Mitt Romney
6. Mike Huckabee
7. Rudy Giuliani
8. Fred Thompson
9. Ron Paul
10. Hillary Clinton
11. Barack Obama
12. John Edwards
13. Dennis Kucinich
14. Mike Gravel
15. Blank page with header
16. Lined page with header
17. One box with lines
18. Three boxes with lines
19. Six boxes
20. Blank page with footer
21. B&W Cover page
22. B&W “Meet the Candidates” section page
23. B&W Blank candidate page
24. B&W Blank page with header
25. B&W Lined page with header
26. B&W One box with lines
27. B&W Three boxes with lines
28. B&W Six boxes
29. B&W Blank page with footer

Helpful links for research:

• CNN’s Election Center 2008 - click “Candidates” to get information about each candidate
• Project Vote Smart has a listing of 2008 Presidential Candidates In All Parties (There are more of them than you think.)
• ProCon.org has an election page with information about each candidate, especially focusing on issues
• Nickelodeon has a kid-themed election page with information about candidates
• Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids - Good general information about how the government works

Candidate Websites

John McCain
Mitt Romney
Mike Huckabee
Rudy Giuliani
Fred Thompson
Ron Paul
Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
John Edwards
Dennis Kucinich
Mike Gravel

If you have additional links that would be helpful, please share them in a comment!

***Next week’s theme: “Primary Elections”