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Mon, January 13th
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Tues, January 14th
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Wed, January 15th
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Thurs, January 16th
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Friday, January 17th
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1. The challenges of peace! We’ll examine some of the struggles a newly
formed United States encountered including international recognition and
forming a government.
2. Propose a Government:
Students will begin to grapple and debate questions
related to governing. They will then map out their own government proposal.
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1. Propose a Government: Students will
finish their government proposals and present them to the class. Each class
will elect one government.
2. Comparison and
Debrief: As a class we’ll reflect on the distinct challenges involved in
creating a way to justly represent and govern citizens, while protecting a
new nation. We’ll compare our class’ newly elected government with the Articles of Confederation.
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1. Preamble Scramble:
Students will identify the six reasons provided in the
preamble of the US Constitution and write a translated version using
synonyms.
2. Making personal
connections: In small groups, students will be asked to place the six
preamble “reasons” in order of importance to their lives and brainstorm ideas
of how each reason may connect with their own lives and community.
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1. Three Branches
of (federal) Government: We’ll preview vocabulary specific to
Articles I-III in the Constitution and then delve into the primary document
itself, pulling out details on the function of the executive, legislative,
and judicial branches. We’ll be
looking for evidence in the Constitution of what concerns and priorities the
founders had in creating this map of government. This will be a two-day endeavor.
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1. Thursday’s lesson will be continued and finished today.
Next week we will be going into more depth on each branch and start looking
at the Bill of Rights.
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