It is official. Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States.
We will discuss this in class, but (A Week) your Amendment Projects are still due tomorrow.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Constitution foldable (or book)
You are creating a foldable or book with elements of the Constitution. Your job is to summarize the Articles and the first 10 Amendments.
You must include:
1. Articles 1-7
2. The Bill of Rights (the first 10 Amendments)
If you are really inspired and want some extra credit, you can do all 27 Amendments.
Work smart, not hard--summarize the Article or Amendment.
Be colorful and neat.
Make sure everyone can enjoy your bullets and summaries--imagine you are creating your foldable to read to a class of 4th graders learning about the Constitution---keep it simple and effective.
You will later include these in your notebooks for use on the midterm exam, so the better your project, the more it will help later on!
You must include:
1. Articles 1-7
2. The Bill of Rights (the first 10 Amendments)
If you are really inspired and want some extra credit, you can do all 27 Amendments.
Work smart, not hard--summarize the Article or Amendment.
Be colorful and neat.
Make sure everyone can enjoy your bullets and summaries--imagine you are creating your foldable to read to a class of 4th graders learning about the Constitution---keep it simple and effective.
You will later include these in your notebooks for use on the midterm exam, so the better your project, the more it will help later on!
F Week: Tuesday
We completed the Constitutional Scavenger Hunt. We will start a project, involving creating a foldable of the US Constitution that will eventually become part of your notebook.
Tomorrow, Wednesday, I will be away at a conference and you will do Section 3 of the Constitution Chapter in your notebook (questions/vocab) and continue to work on your foldables, which will be due Friday.
We will choose names to see who gets which Amendment for our Amendment Project!
Tomorrow, Wednesday, I will be away at a conference and you will do Section 3 of the Constitution Chapter in your notebook (questions/vocab) and continue to work on your foldables, which will be due Friday.
We will choose names to see who gets which Amendment for our Amendment Project!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Amendment Project
We chose amendments for our Amendment Project.
Amendment Project:
1. Explain your amendment
2. In what year was your amendment passed
3. Explain the reason your amendment was necessary
4. Find one Supreme Court case concerning your amendment. Tell us about the case and its importance.
Rules for a successful presentation
--Research should be done well in advance.
--Put the important things on note cards.
--Rehearse your presentations.
You may not read from computer printouts. Your notes must be hand-written or typed onto cards.
One helpful website for Supreme Court decisions:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/
Some helpful notes about the Amendments:
http://www.usconstitution.net/constamnotes.html
Feel free to look anywhere you find helpful, including the National Archives, which can be found at
http://www.archives.gov/
A WEEK DUE DATE: Wednesday, November 5th (the day after Election Day)
Amendment Project:
1. Explain your amendment
2. In what year was your amendment passed
3. Explain the reason your amendment was necessary
4. Find one Supreme Court case concerning your amendment. Tell us about the case and its importance.
Rules for a successful presentation
--Research should be done well in advance.
--Put the important things on note cards.
--Rehearse your presentations.
You may not read from computer printouts. Your notes must be hand-written or typed onto cards.
One helpful website for Supreme Court decisions:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/
Some helpful notes about the Amendments:
http://www.usconstitution.net/constamnotes.html
Feel free to look anywhere you find helpful, including the National Archives, which can be found at
http://www.archives.gov/
A WEEK DUE DATE: Wednesday, November 5th (the day after Election Day)
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
The Constitution
A Week:
On Tuesday we had a scavenger hunt--you had to find things in the Constitution.
You were given a list of events from the period of our nation's founding, which you had to put in order and include the dates.
If you were absent, please read pages 73-83 and put the events you find in order.
Today (Wednesday) we corrected your timelines as a class, and we discussed the founding of our nation.
Notes:
Remember that the first governing document of the United States was the Articles of Confederation. It did not work.
Founders such as George Washington felt that it was necessary to form a government with a stronger central power. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and friends did not become Federalists by accident. Remember, they were centrally involved in the winter at Valley Forge--a winter when the Continental troops were starving to death and freezing in the middle of America's best farmland. Farmers were selling their goods to the British soldiers because the British paid in pounds sterling (solid currency) while the American's paid in currency that was not trusted.
In order to save the army and the war effort, Washington had to take hard measures.
-he sent Gen. Nathaniel Greene to "buy" what little food was left from American farmers (the "selling" was forced).
-he strengthened up discipline in the army and gave lifetime half-pay pensions to officers who promised to stay for the rest of the war rather than going home at the end of their term.
-he restricted other liberties in order to gain control of the army and countryside.
Washington didn't like curtailing liberties, but he felt that short-term suffering would be better than tyranny under the British if they won the war. [Big hint: we will connect this issue to an opinion question about politics and the situation today--is it necessary to lose liberties during national emergencies?]
Washington developed the mindset that a strong national government was necessary--he saw what happened when the army was disorganized and supply lines didn't work.
The key question in forming this new government would be how to balance the powers to create an effective government. The founders were not thinking about "democracy" and "freedom" in the purest sense--they were too busy trying to create a government that would last. [Remember--the Europeans were STILL waiting for the whole darned thing to fall apart].
On Tuesday we had a scavenger hunt--you had to find things in the Constitution.
You were given a list of events from the period of our nation's founding, which you had to put in order and include the dates.
If you were absent, please read pages 73-83 and put the events you find in order.
Today (Wednesday) we corrected your timelines as a class, and we discussed the founding of our nation.
Notes:
Remember that the first governing document of the United States was the Articles of Confederation. It did not work.
Founders such as George Washington felt that it was necessary to form a government with a stronger central power. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and friends did not become Federalists by accident. Remember, they were centrally involved in the winter at Valley Forge--a winter when the Continental troops were starving to death and freezing in the middle of America's best farmland. Farmers were selling their goods to the British soldiers because the British paid in pounds sterling (solid currency) while the American's paid in currency that was not trusted.
In order to save the army and the war effort, Washington had to take hard measures.
-he sent Gen. Nathaniel Greene to "buy" what little food was left from American farmers (the "selling" was forced).
-he strengthened up discipline in the army and gave lifetime half-pay pensions to officers who promised to stay for the rest of the war rather than going home at the end of their term.
-he restricted other liberties in order to gain control of the army and countryside.
Washington didn't like curtailing liberties, but he felt that short-term suffering would be better than tyranny under the British if they won the war. [Big hint: we will connect this issue to an opinion question about politics and the situation today--is it necessary to lose liberties during national emergencies?]
Washington developed the mindset that a strong national government was necessary--he saw what happened when the army was disorganized and supply lines didn't work.
The key question in forming this new government would be how to balance the powers to create an effective government. The founders were not thinking about "democracy" and "freedom" in the purest sense--they were too busy trying to create a government that would last. [Remember--the Europeans were STILL waiting for the whole darned thing to fall apart].
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Schoolhouse Rock
In every period but 7A, we have watched these cartoons. Your homework was to analyze your favorite and tell why it was accurate or inaccurate. Place this in your notebook.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
F Week: Tuesday
See notes already posted about the history of democracy and the Declaration.
Yesterday we began the "English to English" translation of the Declaration, and you were asked to translate 10 complaints into our English at the end of class and for homework.
Yesterday we began the "English to English" translation of the Declaration, and you were asked to translate 10 complaints into our English at the end of class and for homework.
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