Cause and Effect
Cause: Grace noticed there had never been a woman president.
Effect: She ran for president
Who voted for Grace because she was the best person for the job.
Sam
How did both Grace and Thomas feel at the beginning of the election?
Grace was worried and Thomas was confident.
What happened at the beginning of the story?
Grace and Thomas were running for president.
Cause: Grace listened to her classmates' ideas of what was important.
Effect: She won the election.
How did hard work pay off for Grace?
She won the campaign or she became president.
Which character
He was the school spelling bee champion.
His experiments always took a blue ribbon at the science fair.
He was captain of the soccer team.
What happened in the middle of the story?
Grace and Thomas made promises and Grace campaigned.
Effect: Sam voted for Grace.
Cause: He thought she was the best person for the job.
Thomas was overly confident (not worried) in the beginning. Why is that?
Use exact text from the story.
He had cleverly calculated that the boys held slightly more electoral votes than the girls. He believed that all the boys would vote for him.
How did Thomas feel about the election?
He was not worried.
What happened at the end of the story?
Grace won the election.
Effect: Thomas was not worried about the election.
Cause: There were more boys than girls in the class.
How do you know that Grace was worried at the beginning of the story?
Use at least 2 sentences from the text to prove it.
Thomas was the school spelling bee champion. His experiments always took a blue ribbon at the science fair. And he was captain of the soccer team.
He calculated that the boys held slightly more electoral votes than the girls.
What was the last state to be accounted for?
Wyoming
Effect: Grace became president because she did these 2 things.
Cause: She joined the safety squad, She organized a school beautification committee, and she volunteered her time in the school cafeteria.
Name one campaign promise that Grace made and one campaign promise that Thomas made.
Grace: No Bullies!, No Littering!, No more fish-stick tacos!
Thomas: Free tutoring!, Free soccer lessons!, Fish-stick tacos every week!
Based on the story, what prediction can you make about Grace's future?
That she was going to be President of the United States.