Presidential Profiles Project Sheet

2013-2014 Presidential Profiles Project
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Evaluation
Rubric
(Part 1)

General
Profile
(Part 2)

Domestic
Profile
(Part 3)

Foreign
Profile
(Part 4)

Presidential
Evaluation
(Part 5)
Inaugural
Address
Evaluation
(Part 6)

Presidenti
al Ranking
(Part 7)

PRESIDENT
Group
25 pts
INDIVIDUAL
pts
INDIVIDUAL
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INDIVIDUAL
??pts
INDIVIDUAL
??pts
GROUP
??pts
GROUP
??pts
33 Harry S .Truman
2/3/14
2/3/14
3/7/14 3/31/14 4/1/14 4/7/14
J
U
N
E

4
t
h

2
0
1
4

34 Dwight E
Eisenhower
35 John F Kennedy
36 Lyndon Baines
Johnson
37 Richard Nixon
3/10/14
38 Gerald Ford
39 Jimmy Carter
4/21/14 5/5/14 5/27/14 5/29/14 6/2/14
40 Ronald Reagan
41 George H.W.
Bush
42 William Clinton
43 George W. Bush
44 Barrack Obama

Rubric
5 Standards (3 pts each=15)
Criteria (10 points)
TOTAL 25
12 Profiles
Each one: 14 tasksx2 pts=28/12)
12 Domestic Profiles
Each one 8 tasksx6 points=48
12 Evaluations
Innaugural Addresses
Ranking

PART 1: PRESIDENTIAL RUBRIC

1. See the Rubric Development Guidelines below to help you develop your rubric.

PART 2: GENERAL PRESIDENTIAL PROFILE
Presidential Profile & Personal Information
1. Presidents Name
2. The Party they represented
3. Dates of Term(s) in office
4. Name(s) of Vice President(s)
5. Dates and places of Birth and Death (ex. Dec 30, 1981 Chapel Hill NC July 22, 2065 Las Vegas NV)
6. Religion (ex. Episcopalian)
7. Education & Degree earned (ex. Texas A&M University, Bachelors in History and Communications)
8. Previous Government Position(s) Held OR previous jobs held (ex. Texas State Senate / ex. Cattle
Rancher)
Election(s)
1. Key Opponent(s) (needed for each election)
2. Popular Vote percentage for each candidate (needed for each election)
3. Electoral College Vote Total percentage for each candidate (needed for each election)
4. Provide the electoral college results in map form (Use www.270towin.com or Wikipedia to cut & paste)
5. Identify 3 Key issues for each election and BRI EFLY (2-3 sentences each) explain their relevance in
the election
6. Identify 3 reasons (2-3 sentences each) describing why YOU THI NK the President won/lost each
election.

PART 3: DOMESTIC AFFAIRS PRESIDENTIAL PROFILE
1. What was the Presidents Domestic Platform called? (if you cannot find a name, then create one
yourself)
2. Identify 4 important things happening DOMESTI CLY during the Presidents time in office.
3. Major Achievements (What 3 KEY things did the president accomplish while in office?)
4. Major Legislation (What 3 KEY pieces of legislation did the president sign into law?)
5. Scandals (Did any scandalous activities take place while the President was in office?)
6. Changes to the Constitution (Were any amendments passed?
7. Supreme Court Justices Appointed (who did your president nominate to be on the Supreme Court?
Were they easily confirmed by Congress?)
8. Approval Ratings What was the Presidents highest and lowest approval rating? What events occurred
just prior to the poll to create these rating numbers?

PART 4: FOREIGN AFFAIRS PRESIDENTIAL PROFILE
1. What was the Presidents foreign affairs platform called? (if you cannot find one, then create one
yourself)
2. World Events (Identify 3 KEY non-military events that were taking place around the world during the
Presidents time in office.)
3. How did the President handle these 3 KEY events?
4. How did the President act as Commander in Chief of the Military? (how/when did he use the military,
was it effective?)
5. How was the United States viewed by other nations while the President was in office?

PART 5: PRESIDENTIAL EVALUATION

1. Read each Presidents inaugural address(s) and fill out a Presidential Inaugural Address sheet (see
attached) for each inaugural address.
2. Please reference specific examples from the inaugural addresses for each box in your chart.

PART 6: PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURAL ADDRESS ANALYSIS
1. Develop a rubric you will use to evaluate each Presidents time in office. Use the guidelines (Rubric
Development Sheet) on the next page to assist you in developing your rubric.
2. Fill out 12 rubrics, one for each President.
3. For each rubric, write a paragraph justifying your evaluation of each President. Be sure to use specific
examples to JUSTIFY each evaluation!!!

PART 7: PRESIDENTIAL RANKINGS
1. Fill out the Presidential Ranking Chart (See attached)
2. Please make sure that you have SPECI FI C examples to justify your ranking(s).

Rubric Development Guidelines
Questions that need to be answered collaboratively by your group while designing your rubric:
What 5 things does a President need to do to be considered a good President? These become your
STANDARDS.
What does it take to be Perfect for each standard? What does it take to be Very Unsuccessful?
These descriptions become your CRITERIA. The language in each of these boxes is the key to
having an easy to use, quality rubric.
Tasks/Reminders for your group in designing your rubric:
Fill in the STANDARDS & the CRITERIA in the rubric.
Be sure that anyone can use your rubric, meaning that the language is clear and concise!
Make sure that you are actually evaluating the Presidents level of success is accomplishing his
goals.
Make sure that the rubric is general to apply to ANY President, but not so general that it is hard to
accurately evaluate a President.

RUBRI CS MUST BE COLLABORATI VELY
MADE I N YOUR GROUP!!!!!!!

PRESIDENTIAL EVALUATION RUBRIC TEMPLATE
PRESIDENT NAME: ___________________________________________ OVERALL SCORE FOR THIS
PRESIDENT:________/ 35
GROUP MEMBERS NAMES:
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5 4 3 2 1
STANDARDS Perfect Very Successful Somewhat Successful Unsuccessful Very Unsuccessful
CRITERIA

SAMPLE:
Presidential
Hair Style
Hair is well groomed & full
bodied. Hair always stays in
place and greatly adds a great
deal to the public persona of the
President.
Hair is sometimes well
groomed & mostly full
bodied. Hair usually
stays in place and adds
to the public persona of
the President.
Hair is groomed & has
some body. Hair
sometimes stays in place
and sometimes adds to the
public persona of the
President.
Hair is poorly groomed &
has little body. Hair
occasionally stays in place
and slightly detracts to the
public persona of the
President.
Hair is very poorly groomed &
has no body. Hair never stays in
place and greatly detracts to the
public persona of the President.

Presidential Inaugural Address Sheet
SPEECH
YEAR
PRES.
NAME
TASK ANSWER
1
9
4
8

H
A
R
R
R
Y

T
R
U
M
A
N

According the Inaugural address,
what is the President going to do
for the country?

How does the President criticize
the previous administration?

1
9
5
2

D
W
I
G
H
T

E
I
S
E
N
H
O
W
E
R

for the country?


1
9
5
6

D
W
I
G
H
T

E
I
S
E
N
H
O
W
E
R

for the country?


1
9
6
0

J
F
K

for the country?


1
9
6
4

L
B
J

for the country?


1
9
6
8

R
I
C
H
A
R
D

N
I
X
O
N

for the country?


1
9
7
2

G
E
R
A
L
D

F
O
R
D

(
t
o
o
k

o
f
f
i
c
e

a
f
t
e
r

N
i
x
o
n
s

r
e
s
i
g
n
a
t
i
o
n
)

for the country?


1
9
7
6

J
i
m
m
y

C
a
r
t
e
r

for the country?


1
9
8
0

R
O
N
A
L
D

R
E
A
G
A
N

for the country?


1
9
8
4

R
O
N
A
L
D

R
E
A
G
A
N

for the country?


1
9
8
8

G
E
O
R
G
E

H
W

B
U
S
H

for the country?


1
9
9
2

W
I
L
L
I
A
M

C
L
I
N
T
O
N

for the country?


1
9
9
6

W
I
L
L
I
A
M

C
L
I
N
T
O
N

for the country?


2
0
0
0

G
E
O
R
G
E

W

B
U
S
H

for the country?


2
0
0
4

G
E
O
R
G
E

W

B
U
S
H

for the country?


2
0
0
8

B
A
R
R
A
C
K

O
B
A
M
A

for the country?


2
0
1
2

B
A
R
R
A
C
K

O
B
A
M
A

for the country?


Presidential Ranking Chart
RANKING NAME REASONS FOR RANKING WHY
1

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

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