1. Create our own Government
Over the course of the next week we, as a class, will design a government of our own.
You have spent the last class looking at what countries around the world have set up and
now we will have the opportunity to design our own.
This assignment takes place in a newly inhabited island off the coast of Hawaii. This
land is rich in Droughlierium. Droughlierium is a natural resource that is used as fuel.
This fuel burns cleanly and small amounts lasts for years. Droughlierium is the wave of
the future. Imagine a gram of droughlierium powering a car for three years!! Your new
nations’ economy will soon begin to boom. Other nations will pay a fortune to use your
environmentally friendly, limitless supply of Droughlierium.
Only a few people will settle the island to set up an infrastructure before others will join
them. You are the original settlers of this island.
Our first step is to be assigned roles. We all have different interests and we want to be
sure that our interests are covered.
Our second step will be to figure out a way to develop our nation’s constitution. How
will decisions be made, who will make them? How will the work be divided? Who is in
charge?
The third step is to create the Constitution. Who is in charge? How many branches of
government? What rights do the people have? What is wrong with the United States
government and now you can fix?
You need to have the following within our constitution.
• Executive Power
• Judicial Power
• Legislative Power
• Checks and balances if any?
• Guaranteed rights?
• Denied rights?
• How will land and wealth be distributed?
• Anything else you feel is necessary.
You will need to each write a copy of your constitution and pass it in. You will have the
same pats but each of you will end up writing it differently.
You are graded on the outcome of the constitution and fulfilling your responsibility to the
class. Class participation is a large portion of this grade, if you are not in class you are
not participating.
A rubric is on the reverse side.

2. CATEGORY 20 15 10 5
Amount of All topics are All topics are All topics are One or more
Information addressed and all addressed and addressed, and topics were not
questions most questions most questions addressed.
answered with at answered with at answered with 1
least 2 sentences least 2 sentences sentence about
about each. about each. each.
Quality of Information Information Information Information has
Information clearly relates to clearly relates to clearly relates to little or nothing to
the main topic. It the main topic. It the main topic. do with the main
includes several provides 1-2 No details and/or topic.
supporting details supporting details examples are
and/or examples. and/or examples. given.
Mechanics No grammatical, Almost no A few Many
spelling or grammatical, grammatical grammatical,
punctuation spelling or spelling or spelling, or
errors. punctuation punctuation punctuation
errors errors. errors.
Paragraph All paragraphs Most paragraphs Paragraphs Paragraphing
Construction include include included related structure was not
introductory introductory information but clear and
sentence, sentence, were typically sentences were
explanations or explanations or not constructed not typically
details, and details, and well. related within the
concluding concluding paragraphs.
sentence. sentence.
Class Student uses all Student helps Student does not Student missed
Participation time in class some, but uses help much, is class, left for the
working towards more time to distracting and bathroom, or
the constitution. socialize, goes to does not showed up late.
the bathroom contribute much Or Student does
often, or sit to the project. not participate and
quietly rather help with the class
than help the much, as well as
class. distracts others.
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60 40 20