Monday:
1. Map Quiz: 25
States – Students received a map and list last week and we have practiced with
various geo-games several times in class. This was postponed until today.
2. We’ll finish
our 3 branches of government organizers and then play a review game in small
groups with cutout vocabulary related to the 3 branches and checks and
balances.
Tuesday:
1. Students will be examining the Bill of Rights, with a focus on linking
the fears and hopes of former revolutionaries with the specific limits and
guarantees in the first ten amendments.
2. Review for the
3 branches of government quiz, which will include the following topics: The
makeup of each branch; the constitutional duties within each branch; checks and
limits between the branches; purposes listed in the Preamble of the
Constitution.
HW: Review notes
and organizers for tomorrow’s quiz.
Wednesday:
1. Quiz: Students
will demonstrate their knowledge by charting the 3 branches as defined by
articles I-III of the Constitution and identifying checks and balances between
them.
2. We’ll continue
our study of the Bill of Rights by
analyzing legal scenarios and connecting them to specific amendments. The scenarios
are fictional situations and students will be expected to write their own
situations, which will be performed for the class in an amendment charades
game.
Thursday:
1. Students
finish their scenarios and perform them for the class. Their peers will compete
to correctly guess which amendments they are related to.
2. If there is
time after amendment charades, we’ll work on memorizing the Bill of Rights and several of the other
17 amendments with a matamoscas/TPR competition.
Friday:
1. Students will
begin to write their own Amendment proposals.
We’ll be looking at actual historical proposals that were not ratified
as examples. The goal is to create an Amendment that would improve the working
of government or protect the rights of citizens. We’ll have a ratification process on
Monday!
HW: Due Monday – Finish amendment proposals.