H204 GCCCD Congress Woman Dianne Feinstein Letter

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H204 GCCCD Congress Woman Dianne Feinstein Letter

TASK 1- DECISIONS, DECISIONS

DECIDE YOUR TOPIC

YOU WILL NEED TO PICK A TOPIC RELATED TO ANYTHING THAT WE HAVE GONE OVER IN THE COURSE.

Here are some ideas to help guide your decision:

Explore trending events/topics in the news

What are news reporters currently focusing on? Oftentimes politicians are also focusing on these issues.

Examples of news sources: CalMatters, NPR, CNN, Fox, BBC, MSNBC, and etc.

  • Research proposed/recently passed bills

What are some issues that legislatures have recently voted on or will be voting on soon?

  • Examples of where to find this information: CalMatters (Links to an external site.), CA LegiScan (Links to an external site.) H204 GCCCD Congress Woman Dianne Feinstein Letter
  • DECIDE WHO YOU WILL WRITE TO

Next, you will need to decide who to write your letter to. It is recommended that you:

  • Write to the legislator that represents your district and/or

Write to a legislator who works on the topic you’re writing about.

  • CalMatters has a new tool that allows you to find your legislator, as well as identify legislators who work on key topics. You can access this information on their page, Glass House: California Legislator Tracker (Links to an external site.).
  • Please see the Directory of Public Officials (Links to an external site.) for their contact information.

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TASK 2- ROUGH DRAFT

Next you will create a rough draft of your letter. Your letter can express one of the following:

You are angry about something, and want others to know it

You think that an issue is so important that you have to speak out

Part of your group’s strategy is to persuade others to take a specific action

OR YOU WANT TO:

Suggest an idea to others

Influence public opinion

Educate the general public on a specific matter

  1. Influence policy-makers or elected officials directly or indirectly
  2. Publicize the work of your group and attract volunteers or program participants

Please refer to the guidelines found in “How to Write Letters to Elected Officials”, which can be found on the next page. General guidelines can also be found in the powerpoint presentation preceding this assignment.  H204 GCCCD Congress Woman Dianne Feinstein Letter

Once you have completed and submitted your draft to the Project Rough Draft assignment page, you will complete 2 anonymous peer responses. You will provide the following feedback to your assigned peers:

How closely they followed the format provided in the “How to Write Letters to Elected Officials” guidelines.

Strengths of their letter

Areas that need to be improved in their letter

Spelling/grammatical errors

TASK 3- FINAL DRAFT

You can work on your final draft once you…

Submit your rough draft.

Complete your peer responses.

  • Review the comments left by your peers and DP regarding your letter.
  • TASK 4- REFLECTION
  • Finally, you will write a brief (50-150 words), open-ended reflection of the project. Here are some ideas for what you can talk about:

Something new that you learned about the topic that you wrote about

Overall impression of the letter writing process (Was it easy, difficult, manageable?) H204 GCCCD Congress Woman Dianne Feinstein Letter