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Answer Key
   Lesson I: Chief Executive Character Traits
   Lesson II: The President & Foreign Policy
   Lesson III: Extra-Constitutional Duties
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   Lesson V: Roles & Duties: C-SPAN Videoquest Lesson & Review

Objectives
  • To predict potential roles and duties of the American presidency.
  • To assess character traits likely to be found in a successful president.
  • Before Viewing C-SPAN Ask your students which character traits they think a presidential candidate should possess. List these traits on the board and ask your students to explain their choices.

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    Life Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt Clip #35 - Why Theodore Roosevelt chose not to seek re-election in 1908.

    Writings of Theodore Roosevelt Clip #2 - Theodore Roosevelt's image and popular appeal.

    Writings of Theodore Roosevelt Clip #6 - The influence Roosevelt's experience in North Dakota had on him.

    Access complete video from C-SPAN's American Portraits Life Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt and American Writers Writings of Theodore Roosevelt.


    After Viewing C-SPAN Ask your students if they wish to revise/add to their list of presidential character traits.

    Distribute the anonymous "Candidate Profiles" worksheet to your students. Ask them to read each candidate's profile, and ask your students to vote from these profiles on their choice for president. Once the votes have been tallied and the president has been chosen, reveal to your students the identities of each of these "candidates." Ask your students if their choices would have been the same if they had known the identities of the candidates. Why, or why not? What character traits and/or experiences swayed their vote? What traits and experiences of Theodore Roosevelt's do your students claim are most important for a presidential candidate?

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