This week-long activity is something that I use with my 12th grade government students, but could easily be adjusted for any grade. At the beginning of the week students each get a role in a fake class election to be "class president". Each student is given a different role: political candidate, lobbyist, visual media expert, writer, and technological media expert work together to participate in a campaign and participate in the political process. In the end the group who wins the election gets