1. What is YOUR QFT destination?
Dan Fouts

2. Presidency

3. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

4. Product: reflection/class discussion
Student selects his/her favorite question generated from the QFT process.
Student writes a reflection answering this question based on what he/she learned in the unit.
Class discussion on presidential power

5. Character is like a tree and reputation is like its shadow
Character is like a tree and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln

6. Product: short presentation
With a partner student selects his/her favorite question generated from the QFT process.
Student chooses a presidential event with partner and then presents on how this event answered the question.

7. Congress

8. CRITICISMS OF CONGRESS
Members of Congress don’t level with the people
Members of Congress just bicker and don’t get anything done.
Ordinary people can’t have an impact.
Congress can’t think long term
Members of Congress compromise too much.
Members don’t listen to their constituents.
The legislative process is too complicated.
Congress is run by a few big special interests

9. Product: Summative Exam
Student selects three of his/her favorite questions generated from the QFT process.
Student answers them based on what he/she has learned in the unit.

10. Campaigns and
Elections

11. “The Politician does not offer the audience an image of himself, so much as offer himself as an image of the audience” Neil Postman

12. Product: presentation
Student selects his/her favorite question generated from the QFT process.
Student finds a political commercial and answers his/her question based on the content/style of the commercial.
Student presents commercial to class.