Activity Four:

• each local MP should be able to provide you with a map of the electoral ridings
• the internet site listed in Activity Two also provides a list of MPs and their ridings

Activity Five:

• use the handout, Federal Government Responsibilities
• ask your student to find each office on the handout in the Blue Pages of the telephone directory
• have her copy the numbers that she feels are the most important to her and have her copy it on the handout, Federal Government Offices

Activity Six:

• start this activity with a brainstorm activity
• a newspaper article headline or a photo may help in provide a starting point for discussion
• once you have brainstormed all of the ideas, have him use the phrases/words from the brainstorm in sentences
• start to organize them for paragraphs
• ask your student to put a 1 beside all of the ideas that are about the same idea
• continue to number ideas until each thought/idea is numbered
• then go through the list and decide which ideas would go in the beginning, middle and closing paragraphs
• have your student write the opening paragraph for homework
• continue to develop the letter
• remember to have your student read her letter aloud as a way of editing the first draft