Yes, this is homework help, but I promise she’ll be doing her own work. This is the preliminary part.
Second grade (7 years old) assignment: Pretend that you are running for President. Create a 30-45 second commercial that convinces people to vote for you. These will be acted out in class or can be recorded at home with help from a parent and brought to school on a DVD.
Problem 1: she has no idea what a campaign ad should look like or contain. I’d like to show her a few so she gets an idea. “Hi, I’m blah blah. Vote for me 'cause blah blah blah.”
Problem 2: all I can find are satires and attack ads online. I know I’m missing something really obvious in my search queries…
So…old school campaign ads? Talking head variety? Links, please and thank you?
How about this ad for the Obama campaign, and which talks about Romney’s comments about PBS, Sesame Street and Big Bird? I think she might get the message.
Sorry, I spoke too soon, as that’s certainly an attack ad.
Hmmm…better than this year’s crop, but I’m thinking I need to find more “talking head” kinds of things, since she’s got to perform or film this herself.
Uh…sure…my 7 year old will love it. :rolleyes: (WTF, dude?!)
A friend sent me a few videos of third grade student president videos…that might be as good as I’m gonna get.
John Gregg and Mike Pence both have been running relatively clean campaigns for Indiana governor - at least as far as their endorsed commercials have gone:
