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CANADIAN CIVICS
Cumulative Project
The Product:
What you are aiming to do:
1. This product will be submitted in the form of a scrapbook that
will hold 25 - 40 newspaper, magazine, or Internet articles. Each
student is encouraged to decorate the cover/and or title pages for each
topic. These decorations could include artwork, political
cartoons, political symbols and graphics.
2. Whenever a person picks up a book he/she usually looks at the index
to quickly view the contents. Each scrapbook MUST contain an index
on the inside of the cover and colour code your legend for easy access
to topics.
3. Read the outline carefully and complete all the tasks that are given.
DO NOT complete additional work in the hopes it will replace what you
are being asked to do.
4. APPEARANCE REFLECTS ATTITUDE! Make sure your work is neat.
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Helpful Hints:
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The Process
(the steps taken to create the product):
 | Complete each of the following categories for your scrapbook:
Municipal, Provincial, Federal Government and Political Figures .
(Note: political figures could be elected,
appointed, or lobbyists/activists.)
| First Step: Accessing information:
You are encouraged to use the school
library resource centre, public libraries as well as
electronic sources. (See specific references below.)
| Second Step: Collecting and
evaluating resources:
a) SUBMIT original, photocopy or print copy, highlight and cite
articles on the aforementioned categories. (NEATLY). To cite
an article use a BLACK PEN and print directly on the article
to identify: name of the resource, full date and page number of
the source.
b) HIGHLIGHT - Use a different colour for each of the following and
create a COLOUR CODE LEGEND that appears on the inside cover in the
finished scrapbook.
ii) names of key people and organizations
iii) political vocabulary: highlight words even if you don’t
know the meaning. Use the glossary in your textbook to define
the word
iv) issues/problems requiring action
v) solutions or action plans recommended
vi) key lines summing up the main idea of the article
| Third Step: Summary statements:
It is time to explain what each article is
trying to teach the reader about a certain level of government or a
political figure.
a) What topic(s) is the clipping discussing ?
citizen’s complaints, political decision-making, lobbying,
problems facing citizens and/or governments and solutions to issues.
b) After identifying the topic write out a
statement in your own words and then find an example from the
article to prove what you are saying is correct. Put your
proof in quotation marks under your statement.
c) Lastly, explain how the author of the
article wants the reader to feel towards the topic. Positive,
negative, sympathetic, empathetic. Explain how does the
article make you feel. (2 to 3 lines)
| Fourth Step: The last page of
your scrapbook will be a written summary of what you have learned
while doing your scrapbook. Be careful, you should NOT be
repeating previous statements made in your book. Each student
will be asked to identify three ideas/attitudes that he/she has
found important.
| Fifth Step: Marking scheme for
the process:
This project is worth 15% of your overall mark
and 50% of the Summative category for this course.
Hand it in on time: Lete assignments
will lose 10% per day and that includes weekends. |
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The Ministry of Education Guideline which this project follows:
Canadian and World Studies
Grades 9 and 10
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Print Resources
See the "Helpful Hints" section above for information on how to browse
the print collection and how to use the library catalogue.
You can browse in the following sections: 320.8: Local government 320.971:
Political situation and conditions (Canada) 321: Kinds of governments and
states 321.02: Federal states
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