Your task: Ultimately, the class will produce its own procedural and persuasive guide for the governing of a city in America today.

To that end each student will individually be responsible for the following:

1. A portfolio of five newspaper articles that best relate to the theme of power (specifically, using power to govern).

For each article you will construct a SOAPS chart (taken from The College Board's Building Success program)
Subject
Occasion
Audience
Purpose
Speaker

2. A report of what you learned about power from your articles. (300 word report-- ELA Standard E2a with bibliography.)

3. Dialectical (double-column) entries on the reading as assigned in your journal.

4. Writing one chapter in our modern guide for rulers.

Each group will be responsible for:
1. Teaching two assigned chapters including relevant vocabulary, a journal response to a quote, discussion questions, and an outline of the assigned chapter to be used as a visual aid for the audience.

2. Producing four chapters in our modern day guide incorporating information from both The Prince and newspaper articles. (Each individual responsible for one.)

3. One letter describing purpose of your four chapters in the style of Machivelli's letter to Lorenzo de Medici.
Assessment: All codes refer to NYC ELA Performance Standards (http://www.nycenet.edu/teach_learn/ed_resources/standards/NYCELAv2.pdf)

Individual- Group-
Portfolio of articles with charts(E1c) Group meetings (E3b)
Report (E2a) Presentation of chapter (E3c)
Procedural or Persuasive chapter Letter of purpose (E2e)
(E2d) or (E2e)
Criteria and rubrics to follow!