Government: Congressional Petition R.A.F.T. Assignment

Assignment Overview: 

In this activity, we will identify community problems and obtain signatures to send to our local representative. Through this process we will be developing the participating-in-government skills of observing the need for new policy, conducting a survey, petitioning, and contacting policy makers.

Here is the RAFT Scenario:

Role	Audience	Format	Topic
Concerned Citizen	TN State Representative	Letter	Needs of the PCHS Community

Activity Guidelines 

1. Discuss what problems that your state representative might be able to help you with.
2. Select and record the five most important problems
3. Each group will poll twenty five students about these problems. Ask them to rate each problem on a scale of  1 (Most Important) .. 2 ( Important)...3 (Somewhat)...4..(Not Important)
4. Tally your results. What problems were most important? least important? Why do you think so? Explain your experiences (10 Sentences)
5. Each person write a letter of consisting of fifteen sentences to send to our local state representative detailing the needs of the PCHS community. Also discuss your findings.