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​WE THE PEOPLE

Period 5
Friday, Decmeber 11th = TEST!!!!!!! =

Sample Constitution Test 1

Thursday, December 10th 1. Type 1- what questions do you have about the test tomorrow? no bonus questions 2. Test Review/ Format 3. ActivExpression on the computers 4. Cannonball Roll

**HOMEWORK:** **Study for test tomorrow!!!!!! It's 60 points, so it's a big part of our grade!**

THERE IS A REVIEW SESSION TOMORROW MORNING AT 7:15!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday, December 9

1-Bill of Rights Pictionary 2-Bill of Rights Matching Quiz 3-Scenarios
 * Collect Study Guide for Homework

Constitution Test- Friday Review Session- Friday -> 7:15 AM

Tuesday, December 8 Google News Research assigned amendment on Google News to find out current and past issues related to your amendment. Review Bill of Rights media type="custom" key="4988163"

1- Bill of Rights Google New search -Summarize Article Who What Where When Why 2- Identify the Bill of Rights 3- Bill of Rights Pictionary

Bill of Rights Matching Quiz--Wednesday

Monday, December 7

Homework: define the terms on study guide by Wednesday, quiz on the Bill of Rights on Wednesday (10 points, matching), big constitution test on Friday.
1. watch video of Franklin Roosevelt's speach that took place on December 8th, 1941 on the attacks the day before on Pearl Harbor, which was 68 years ago 2. talk about what is on test, and about the study guide (pick on of the 5 supreme court cases and KNOW it, and what your opinion is)(know about how checks and balances and federalism limit the power of the government) on the study guide, the terms under people to know and things to know, and also the bullets at the bottom are definately on the test 3. talk about the 5 cases that teens should know

Friday, December 4 Good morning periods 1, 2, 3 and good afternoon period 5! I am home today trying to get over this head cold so I will tell you what you need to do for class today. 4. Be sure to plug in the computers at the end of class. 5. This weekend be sure to organize your Constitution study materials (Bill of Rights handout, Constitution Quiz, flipbook, Composition book,and any other notes). You will want to know what each of the Bill of Rights are about (ex-3rd Amend is about No quarting of soldiers and the 7th amend. is about trial by jury in civil cases). Begin studying this weekend. Don't forget this site and the videos. On Monday we will continue studying the Bill of RIghts and you will get a study guide for the test on Friday, Dec. 11.
 * 1) Read the article (below) about how the Supreme Court has ruled on issues that impact schools and even maybe you!
 * 2) In your composition book write a brief summary(3-5 sentences) of your opinion on each of the 5 case studies presented in the article. Be sure to write about **WHY** //**you**// support or do not support the Supreme Court's decisions.
 * 3) When you are done with the summaries then join the Coveritlive chat about the case studies you just read and wrote about.
 * Just first names
 * support your opinions
 * Avoid "I agree with Joe"--//boring!// //and meaningless//; Instead write something like, "I agree with Joe because....[then say why you agree].
 * **Avoid personal attacks--be responsible with your words!**
 * I encourage you to go out and support you ideas by including links to other relevant sites.

Have a great weekend!!!

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Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights-Kidipede Bill of Rights Game

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Tuesday, November 17
[|Behind the Scenes for "Electing a President in Plain English"]

1- Review Declaration of Independence/ Constitution -Differences/Similarities

**__QUIZ ON DECLARATION AND CONSTITUTION SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES and THE COMPROMISES TOMORROW__**
2- Working Period -Agree on roles -Agree on key points in your groups' sections of the Constitution -Agree on visuals for the project

3- Begin work on script & visuals

4- Due tomorrow -1st draft of script -working visuals

1: Type 1 Writing = In what ways was compromise used to create our Constitution, 5 lines, 4 minutes 2: Create a Group Google Doc - Constitution video, 1.1 First number is your period of American Cultures, and the second number is what table you are 3: Watch video on how the President is elected, this type of video is how our video is going to be set up 4: Identify key ideas from your groups section 5: Homework: In Paragraph, summarize main points from your group's section of the Constitution. (due tomorrow)
 * Monday, November 16

Quiz on Wednesday on the comparison of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, also the compromises in the Constitution

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Friday, November 13** Constitution Video Project

Each table will be assigned a section of the Constitution to research, write a script, and produce a 30 second to 1 minute video segment explaining the key point of the assigned section of the Constitution. Each video must include visuals and a clearly summarized review of the section. Project Timeline:
 * Friday, 11/13--Intro. to Project, Identify key points for assigned section
 * Monday, 11/16--Review key points, create visuals, work on script
 * Tuesday, 11/17--Finish visuals and script in class, share progress with class
 * Wednesday, 11/18--Visuals and final script are DUE, practice reading script
 * Thursday, 11/19--Record video (each group gets 10 minutes to record video--Be ready!)

Each group will work on the project using a shared Google Doc Name the Google Doc-- Constitution video, 1.1 (the 1.1 refers to period 1, table 1; for Period 3, table 4 the title would be Constitution Video, 3.4)

Group roles Each member of the group must:
 * individually read about the assigned section from the Our Constitution textbook
 * identify the key points from the assigned section
 * create a rough draft visual depicting a key point from the section

1 to 2 group members to finalize visual 1 group member to write final draft of script (all members edit) 1 group member in charge of videotaping 1 to 2 group members read script on video 1 group member directs the video production

Medal of Honorwebsite

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Meet a Framer Read the biography of your assigned Framer of the Constitution and introduce him to class. Also, be sure to get a picture with him at Philly! Framers of the Constitution
 * Wednesday, 11/4**

November 2nd 2009

The Preamble of the Constitution in depth discussion To form a more perfect Union- To create a better government To establish justice- To create a court system so that all the people are mostly tried fairly To provide for the common defense- To create an army so that we could defend ourselves from others To promote the general Welfare- Promote a well being for the entire community To secure the blessings of Liberty- Secure the ideals of freedom for everyone

**Done Today:**
 * October 30th 2009**
 * ====Type 1 writing about the 5 weaknesses or limitations of the Articles of Confederation. You may do a list or write it all out ====
 * We talked about different thoughts that you could put down on your list

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 * 1st Constitution (1777-1787)
 * 1 House Legislature, 1 vote per state
 * There is no President, legal court system, judiciary branch, executive branch, or legislative branch
 * States more powerful than National government
 * States could veto national laws and refuse to contribute to the national treasury
 * Each state prints own money and have own militia (no national army)
 * There was only congress and congress made laws and that was it
 * All state are equal. Some smaller states liked while larger ones probably didn't

Problems of the Articles of Confederation > -3 parts: > 1.) preamble ("We the people..."); tells us what the specific goals of our government are: > //To form a more perfect union > To establish justice > To insure domestic tranquility > To provide for the common defense > To promote the general welfare > To secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity// > (posterity-future generations) > 2.) **7** articles; they spell out how our government runs (#1 legislative branch, #2 executive branch, #3 judicial branch) > 3.) **27** amendments (__amendment-__ change) first 10 are known as the the Bill of Rights (they guarantee your basic natural rights beyond life, liberty and pursuit of happiness) Copy of the Constitution at this hyperlink: []
 * The states had the power
 * No national court to deal with issues throughout the states (laws differed through all the states)
 * Made trade more difficult because each state had a different currency (did not encourage trade; hurt economy)
 * Each state had its own military (no national military) we did not want a national army because higher powers could become dictators (all of the states were very separated from each other)
 * There was only 1 vote per state, not all states were equal in amount of people, not fair to those who have more people that they only get 1 vote and the smaller states get 1 vote too but they are not equal in population
 * states could have war against each other since there was no president to stop it, and there was no higher authority to force the states to follow the laws
 * states were more like a confederacy(a group of states that are allied) or even separate countries, rather than one united country
 * Since they are separated states and not very united, a civil war could easily break out. Since there is no federal court, they can't settle their differences because there federal courts would side with their own countries
 * The federal government was too weak to handle an economic, military, political or any other kind of crisis
 * If their is no president then the states would not have to obey the laws since the national government has no power to enforce them
 * Since France helped us in the war, we owed them a lot of money. Some states did not want to pay the French because they were barely making enough money to keep themselves up. So the French COULD have taken over American ships and take the cargo and add it towards the debt that they had to pay.
 * In the mid 1785 Daniel Shays rebelled with many other farmers against the banks. There was a huge depressions so all the banks were foreclosing on the farmers land and taking them away and kicking the farmers out. There were was a lot of battles about this and this warfare was spreading. In May of 1787 they had each state sent representatives to a Constitutional Convention . They got rid of the Articles of Confederation. They needed to get rid of it and create a stronger government but not too strong and destroy the natural rights. They decided to separated the branches with the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branch. The branches check the power of the other branches. The legislative branch creates laws, but must be approved by the President. The Constitution was signed September 17 1787.
 * Constitution
 * People had less say in what happened since they only got one vote a state.
 * .They wanted to make the articles of confederation stronger. But when they thought about it they knew they couldn't without being fights and riots. Then that's when they got the idea they should start 'new'. They started increasing the power, and giving rights to the people that the government couldn't touch. Before that they had to break up the power 'Separation of powers'.

@http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1282736/Preamble_ -Preamble Wordle