Constitution Prep

Today is we celebrate CONSTITUTION DAY (technically tomorrow but tomorrow is Saturday), the day that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the United States Constitution.
We'll celebrate by dedicating our period to review and preparation for next week's Constitution Test.
The notes from our discussion of the Preamble may be helpful to you as you prepare for section A of the written portion. Preamble Definition Discussion.

Constitution Work Contd.

Today, we'll receive the first part of the Constitution Test, the written section.  It is very important that students do this work on their own -- they will be signing an Honor Code on Monday when they do this work.  Students are to prep the written part on their own.  At the very least, they should annotate their Constitution for the work to be done; additionally, a Brainstorming guide has been placed in their US History Google folders.  This can be completed and brought to class on Monday. 

Next Tuesday will be the Multiple Choice section of the exam.  Students should refer to this target guide to study.

There will be review sessions during the following times.  All review sessions are in room Q110.
Thursday, 7:30 am and 3:20 pm
Monday 3:20 pm
Tuesday 7:30 am

Today, we'll focus on the Bill of Rights. If time, we'll consider these scenarios to determine how they play out in the "real world". Bill of Rights: You Be the Judge

The Constitution Contd.

Today we continued our discussion of the Constitution, finishing the Articles and exploring the concept of checks and balances.  We finished by starting our look at the Bill of Rights.

The Constitution

Yesterday in class we started to consider the Constitution, going over student worksheets and focusing on key details, trying to understand why certain sections existed.  Today in class, we'll continue our look at Article I and begin to look at Articles II and III.

Ratification Debates

On Tuesday in class we watched the end of Are We to Be a Nation and discussed the conflicts that existed between Anti-Federalists and Federalists. We also worked to understand the goals of the Constitution by defining the phrases of the Preamble.
As you study the Constitution, these links to interactive Constitutions will be helpful:
http://www.heritage.org/constitution
http://www.phschool.com/curriculum_support/interactive_constitution/

Are We to Be a Nation?

After discussing the important pieces of the Foner reading from last night, we watched about the first 40 minutes of Liberty: The American Revolution-Are We to Be a Nation? Students used this note taking guide as they watched: Liberty Note Taking Guide.

Business and The American Crisis

We'll start today by taking care of some business by providing students the code to access their ebook. We'll take a quick look at how to navigate the book and some of the study resources that are available.
We'll then answer any questions left over about the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War.
We'll finish class by completing the written analysis of a primary document baseline quiz for Thomas Paine's The American Crisis.