I am a Library Media Specialist at Cabot Middle School North  in Cabot Arkansas where we strive to create learning experiences for our students that simulate real world experiences as closely as possible. For the primary election this year, we worked with our local election officials to create as real an election as possible with election speeches, campaigning, election machines, voter registration, precincts, and even exit polling. We have begun preparing for the November election and our students have created election speeches and we have posted them to our Mock Election website.

http://web.me.com/jillweir/Mock_Election/Welcome.html

There are other pages on this site that give information on our Primary election as well.

Our students have studied the candidates in every way, and I think you will find the resemblance uncanny! We assigned the students a part, and in just a few days, they knew that candidate inside and out including the small things that the actors on Saturday Night live have imitated as well. I'm very proud of the work our students have done, so I wanted to share this with you and thought your viewers might enjoy this also.