Civics and Economics Create a Country Project

Due Wednesday October 1, 2014

Congratulations! The United Nations has agreed to recognize you as an official country provided that you are
willing to provide the necessary documentation and have your national symbols ready to present. It is
important to keep in mind that this is your country and that you have the freedom to choose your symbols as
you see fit. However, you should keep in mind that you as a new country you will have to justify (explain) why
you choose your symbols and that these symbols have to be tasteful (no vulgarity, swearing, or lewdness) to
all of the other countries of the world. Some of the countries are very easily offended, so its better to be on the
safe side.
The United Nations requests that you present the following items in a report cover/In a Google Document for
their review:
1. A cover sheet with the name of your country, your name and class period.
2. A Table of contents.
3. A page dedicated to the type of government that your country will have including a description of what
type of leader and how your government functions.
4. A Bill of Rights which guarantees at least 10 freedoms your citizens will have (If you get lost use the US
Bill of Rights as an example.) Honors will be expected to write an accompanying Constitution.
5. A list of 5 civic duties and 5 civic responsibilities in your country.
6. A list of the steps to become a citizen of your country and a sample citizenship test with 10 questions
related to your countrys history, culture and government.
7. An example of your country's original flag (8.5 x 11) and an explanation of why you chose the design
you did.
8. At least 4 (Honors will be required to include 5) of the following national symbols, which will include a
picture/illustration and a paragraph rationale (reason) for why that is the symbol:
National Language
National Bird.
National Past time (Activity or Sport)
National Motto (One example is the United states had a motto of E Pluribus Unum (One from Many)
National Pledge of Allegiance
National Currency (please include the name of your currency and a picture)
The United Nations have laid out the following guidelines for how this information needs to be turned in to them
for official recognition:
1. All information has to be typed in no larger than 18 point font, with the exception of titles and headings.
(Let me know if we need to work out an arrangement for access to a computer).
2. Pictures can be computer generated and or illustrated. If they are illustrated then they must be colored
in and be clean and crisp. I will not be grading on the artistic ability, but by the effort level that I can tell
you put into trying to make it look nice (I can tell if you forgot and doodled in a picture on the bus).
3. The information has to be in a report binder/Google Drive so that it stays crisp and clean (remember
this is going to be a collection of important documents for your country).
4. This has to be your own work. You can gather ideas and pictures from the images, but the information
and words have to be your own. Plagiarism is cheating and cheating results in a zero.
5. This his has to be turned in by October 1 and for every day it is late there will be a 10% deduction
from the grade. If you know you will be absent then this will need to be turned in beforehand.
6. Be creative and make this country your own!

Grading Rubric

Content Nonexistent
Item is not included
Sub par
Lacks Clear
Explanation or
Picture
Good
Picture and
Explanation
Awesome
Picture and Quality
Explanation
Title Page, Cover
Sheet and Table of
Contents
0 points 1-3 points 4-7 points 8-10 points
Information about
the Government
0 points 1-5 points 6-10 points 11-15 points
Bill of
Rights/Constitution
0 points 1-3 points 4-7 points 8-10 points
Civic Duties and
Responsibilities
0 points 1-5 points 6-10 points 11-15 points
Citizenship Test
and Process
0 points 1-3 points 4-7 points 8-10 points
National Symbol 1 0 points 1-2 points 3-4 points 5 points
National Symbol 2 0 points 1-2 points 3-4 points 5 points
National Symbol 3 0 points 1-2 points 3-4 points 5 points
National Symbol 4 0 points 1-2 points 3-4 points 5 points

Professionalism Unprofessional
This is may or may
not have everything
and is unorganized
and unpolished.
Unpolished
This may or may
not have everything
but looks
unorganized
Good
This has everything
but looks messy
due to formatting
Professional
This has
everything and is
formatted well.
Professionalism 0 points 1-3 points 4-7 points 8-10 points

Unoriginal
The work contains
entirely plagiarized
material
Mixture
The work contains
a large portion of
unoriginal ideas.
Creative
This work contains
mostly original
ideas but some
from other
countries.
Very Original
This work is
original and
creative.
Creative 0 points 1-3 points 4-7 points 8-10 points