New Resource, shared by Jessie, independent scholar (thank you, Jessie!)
Introduction to the Bill of Rights Day One Independence -
How do we know anything about history? How do historians know anything about history? "Alexander Hamilton" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8_ARd4oKiI
Complete what you know on Pre-Test https://docs.google.com/document/d/15lMEfPGv8vcbCOIZz_06zaJlOlLbAsvYjvNZ4K0DeFI/edit?usp=sharing |
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Day 2
Essential Questions for the Founders https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15euqmnQoBzy3Fo3gl1c7UX9HdMwRR2F7k4zUMFdgVGY/edit?usp=sharing
Course Description - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oWL0nl8A9YDaENVtUQ5BLDMmDuDAvAcb5jlFsGTSKq0/edit?usp=sharing
Research Assignments: Begin researching and reading
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Kl8RyEr0VIBOg0eCDFNpfcRs79c2cW1ycI2ombndyo/edit?usp=sharing
Essential Questions for the Founders https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15euqmnQoBzy3Fo3gl1c7UX9HdMwRR2F7k4zUMFdgVGY/edit?usp=sharing
Course Description - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oWL0nl8A9YDaENVtUQ5BLDMmDuDAvAcb5jlFsGTSKq0/edit?usp=sharing
Research Assignments: Begin researching and reading
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Kl8RyEr0VIBOg0eCDFNpfcRs79c2cW1ycI2ombndyo/edit?usp=sharing
Day 3
Research Assignments: Research and Read
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Kl8RyEr0VIBOg0eCDFNpfcRs79c2cW1ycI2ombndyo/edit?usp=sharing
Research Assignments: Research and Read
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Kl8RyEr0VIBOg0eCDFNpfcRs79c2cW1ycI2ombndyo/edit?usp=sharing
Day 4
Heroes on a pedestal http://mikeiamele.com/happens-take-heroes-pedestal/ Slide Show to take notes on: Important Ideas and People who Influenced the Founding Fathers
To Rebel or Not to Rebel
Actors Read Declaration of Independence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJJxFGXLIz0 Frederick Douglas: What to the Slave is the 4th of July? http://www.ksassessments.org/sites/default/files/HGSS_Preview_Texts/Grade_8/What%20to%20the%20Slave%20is%20the%20Fourth%20of%20July.pdf |
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Day 5
The Declaration of Independence
The Founding Fathers and Slavery
What were the American founders' views on slavery, and how did they act on them in creating a new republic?
Test your knowledge: http://www.understandingprejudice.org/slavery/
Read and Discuss the following articles:
Research Focus: What were the views and actions of the Founder you are researching? Prepare several slides in your presentations that answers this question.
The Declaration of Independence
- Schoolhouse Rock
- No More Kings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCkfa3pqihU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCkfa3pqihU
The Founding Fathers and Slavery
What were the American founders' views on slavery, and how did they act on them in creating a new republic?
Test your knowledge: http://www.understandingprejudice.org/slavery/
Read and Discuss the following articles:
- Missing from Presidents’ Day: The People They Enslaved http://zinnedproject.org/2014/02/hidden-black-history-of-white-house/
- 5th Grade Project on Presidents and Slaves http://zinnedproject.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/26presidentsandslaves1.pdf
- The Founding Fathers and Slavery
- Were all of America’s Founding Fathers racists, pro-slavery, and hypocrites? In Support of the Founding Fathers
- DNA, African Americans, and James Madison https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/lifestyle/dna-madison/
- Lesson Activity https://edsitement.neh.gov/sites/edsitement.neh.gov/files/worksheets/Text%20Document%20for%20Activity%201.pdf
Research Focus: What were the views and actions of the Founder you are researching? Prepare several slides in your presentations that answers this question.
Day 6
Field Trip to Judicial Learning Center Worksheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xPbRzT6fmgRkEq37NDZpm55aguZMOAaXkI77BShp_8o/edit?usp=sharing |
Day 7
Constitution USA
Constitution USA
Day 8
What were the American founders' views on slavery, and how did they act on them in creating a new republic?
What were the American founders' views on slavery, and how did they act on them in creating a new republic?
- Stephen Ambrose: Founding Fathers and Slaveholders https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/founding-fathers-and-slaveholders-72262393/?no-ist
Day 9
Find one article of interest to you: Constitutional issues in the news and report out to the class
https://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/educate/educator-resources/headlines/
Begin finding answers to complete the Study Guide for Final Exam https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gBsC1xxwpE1srP2VGNjlI7b3ww6aZxRvgsWB5V0y5qw/edit?usp=sharing
Find one article of interest to you: Constitutional issues in the news and report out to the class
https://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/educate/educator-resources/headlines/
Begin finding answers to complete the Study Guide for Final Exam https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gBsC1xxwpE1srP2VGNjlI7b3ww6aZxRvgsWB5V0y5qw/edit?usp=sharing
Day 11
Why Were the Founders Unable to Eliminate Slavery?
Americans Didn't Always Worship the Founding Fathers https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/02/when-did-americans-start-worshipping-the-founders/385432/
Work on Research Presentations
Why Were the Founders Unable to Eliminate Slavery?
- http://www.civiced.org/resources/curriculum/mason
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Founding-Fathers-and-Slavery-1269536
Americans Didn't Always Worship the Founding Fathers https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/02/when-did-americans-start-worshipping-the-founders/385432/
Work on Research Presentations
Day 12
Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists https://www.icivics.org/teachers/lesson-plans/federalist-debate-hs |
Day 13
Watch John Adams
Watch John Adams
Day 14
Visit from Thomas Jefferson
Day 15
Watch John Adams
Watch John Adams
Day 16
Rolling Over in Their Graves? What the Founding Fathers Would Think of Us Today? Are we really upsetting them?
Choose one article and answer the following questions on a Google Doc that you share with me at [email protected]:
1. What is the issue that the author believes would have the Founding Fathers turning over in their graves about?
2. What is it about the Founding Fathers' beliefs/intentions would cause them to oppose the government's current actions?
3. What would the author have us do to follow the Founding Fathers intentions on this issue?
Choose 1:
Rolling Over in Their Graves? What the Founding Fathers Would Think of Us Today? Are we really upsetting them?
Choose one article and answer the following questions on a Google Doc that you share with me at [email protected]:
1. What is the issue that the author believes would have the Founding Fathers turning over in their graves about?
2. What is it about the Founding Fathers' beliefs/intentions would cause them to oppose the government's current actions?
3. What would the author have us do to follow the Founding Fathers intentions on this issue?
Choose 1:
- 13 Things About America That Would Make The Founding Fathers Turn Over In Their Graves
- Are Our Founders Rolling In Their Graves?
- Why Our Founding Fathers are Rolling Over in Their Graves Right Now …http://www.uncommonwisdomdaily.com/why-our-founding-fathers-are-rolling-over-in-their-graves-right-now-14530
- GOP Rep. says Obama has founding fathers 'turning over in their graves'
Day 17
Watch John Adams - Lived in France, Lived in England, Went to Amsterdam to get support, shamed by B en Franklin, confronted King Louis, became Vice President.
Watch John Adams - Lived in France, Lived in England, Went to Amsterdam to get support, shamed by B en Franklin, confronted King Louis, became Vice President.
Day 18
Watch Episode 3: Created Equal of Constitution USA (this video is on top of the hard drive on my desk). Complete the Worksheet https://docs.google.com/document/d/18pa4C_kzTuR5dmgMgwsuIQ8UbeV0tKJ_H-hAf6_bojc/edit?usp=sharing Video Constitution USA Created Equal? http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/home/_ Does the Constitution have what it takes to keep up with modern America? Join Peter Sagal, as he hits the road to find out. Traveling across the country by motorcycle, Sagal is in search of where the U.S. Constitution lives, how it works and how it doesn’t… how it unites us as a nation and how it has nearly torn us apart. In this episode, Peter learns how the far-reaching changes created by that amendment established new notions of citizenship, equal protection, due process, and personal liberty, altering the relationship between the federal government and the states. In many ways it is this “Second Constitution” that governs the nation we live in today, and it is the Fourteenth Amendment that underlies many landmark Supreme Court decisions that have reshaped the contours of American society. In Tyler, Texas, Peter meets a group of siblings named Lopez, whose parents successfully challenged a law that prohibited the children of illegal aliens from attending public school. In Kentucky, he talks to a former convict who has served her time and is fighting to regain her right to vote. In Berkeley, California, two women’s insistence on their right to marry has thrust them into a battle with the state of California, in a case headed to the United States Supreme Court. And in New Haven, a white firefighter successfully challenges affirmative action policies that blocked his promotion, claiming the right to “equal protection.” |
Day 19
Review: Constitution USA The Fourteenth Amendment
Worksheet https://docs.google.com/document/d/18pa4C_kzTuR5dmgMgwsuIQ8UbeV0tKJ_H-hAf6_bojc/edit?usp=sharing
Founder Slide Show
Research: What did the founders do at the time of:
Review: Constitution USA The Fourteenth Amendment
Worksheet https://docs.google.com/document/d/18pa4C_kzTuR5dmgMgwsuIQ8UbeV0tKJ_H-hAf6_bojc/edit?usp=sharing
Founder Slide Show
Research: What did the founders do at the time of:
- American Revolution - 1775-1783
- Declaration of Independence - 1776
- Continental Congresses - 1774 - 1789
- Constitutional Convention - 1787
- After Independence - after 1783
Day 20
Founder Slide Show
Research: What did the founders do at the time of:
Watch John Adams
Founder Slide Show
Research: What did the founders do at the time of:
- American Revolution - 1775-1783
- Declaration of Independence - 1776
- Continental Congresses - 1774 - 1789
- Constitutional Convention - 1787
- After Independence - after 1783
Watch John Adams
Day 21
Watch John Adams
Watch John Adams
Day 22
To what extent did the religious views of the Founding Fathers shape our republic? What did the Founders believe should be the role of religion in our society?
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Day 23
Did the Founders intend for Americans to have unrestricted gun ownership?
http://theconversation.com/five-types-of-gun-laws-the-founding-fathers-loved-85364
http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/what-americans-founding-fathers-thought-about-guns
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/02/22/what-the-second-amendment-really-meant-to-the-founders/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a4368118bc0b
https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2018/0126/Armed-in-America-asks-exactly-what-the-Founding-Fathers-intended-with-the-Second-Amendment
Second Amendment
Did the Founders intend for Americans to have unrestricted gun ownership?
http://theconversation.com/five-types-of-gun-laws-the-founding-fathers-loved-85364
http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/what-americans-founding-fathers-thought-about-guns
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/02/22/what-the-second-amendment-really-meant-to-the-founders/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a4368118bc0b
https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2018/0126/Armed-in-America-asks-exactly-what-the-Founding-Fathers-intended-with-the-Second-Amendment
Second Amendment
- The History of the Second Amendment
Day 24
Second Amendment Timeline http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/files/documents/timelines/secondamendment.pdf
Colorado Gun Laws https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/csp/colorado-gun-laws
Second Amendment Timeline http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/files/documents/timelines/secondamendment.pdf
Colorado Gun Laws https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/csp/colorado-gun-laws
- https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/07/colorado-red-flag-gun-bill-fails/
- http://www.koaa.com/story/38160542/what-firearms-related-bills-passed-or-failed-in-colorado-legislature
Day 25
Final Exam, Part 1
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ei_ivwMoEPaRqOEaFpmLJeJQW8yX0siRDWS9GL-rzqU/edit?usp=sharing
Presentations:
George Washington (Mikael) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rIgUzSescvoWSgP-UWq-WpNGWCB50Tkzi1_pInQqR2M/edit?usp=sharing
Abigail Adams (Emarie) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qANWJxFUQ1TVhezniKsWtePChNz1CxCIOk2y1-4cOc4/edit?usp=sharing
Final Exam, Part 1
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ei_ivwMoEPaRqOEaFpmLJeJQW8yX0siRDWS9GL-rzqU/edit?usp=sharing
Presentations:
George Washington (Mikael) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rIgUzSescvoWSgP-UWq-WpNGWCB50Tkzi1_pInQqR2M/edit?usp=sharing
Abigail Adams (Emarie) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qANWJxFUQ1TVhezniKsWtePChNz1CxCIOk2y1-4cOc4/edit?usp=sharing
Day 26
Final Exam, Part 2: The Founding Fathers https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ei_ivwMoEPaRqOEaFpmLJeJQW8yX0siRDWS9GL-rzqU/edit?usp=sharing
George Mason (Rosalind) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HNB2TuHMmrt_C9x_zd8jRGilcWdMsnj-EhA4Eh_IoxI/edit?usp=sharing
JMercy Otis Warren (Jillian) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Wg2oQwa0oiL3jJbJwxlAWhO8GEosOCEwECVR-c1RIJ4/edit?usp=sharing
Deborah Read Franklin (Ellie) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dhgHbVViEZfrtrnV4qMLWDh6vU8PzliDFkHIe2nu6ug/edit?usp=sharing
Final Exam, Part 2: The Founding Fathers https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ei_ivwMoEPaRqOEaFpmLJeJQW8yX0siRDWS9GL-rzqU/edit?usp=sharing
George Mason (Rosalind) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HNB2TuHMmrt_C9x_zd8jRGilcWdMsnj-EhA4Eh_IoxI/edit?usp=sharing
JMercy Otis Warren (Jillian) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Wg2oQwa0oiL3jJbJwxlAWhO8GEosOCEwECVR-c1RIJ4/edit?usp=sharing
Deborah Read Franklin (Ellie) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dhgHbVViEZfrtrnV4qMLWDh6vU8PzliDFkHIe2nu6ug/edit?usp=sharing
Day 27
Final Exam, Part 3 - questions 23-29 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ei_ivwMoEPaRqOEaFpmLJeJQW8yX0siRDWS9GL-rzqU/edit?usp=sharing
Presentations
James Madison (Icely) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ddEFF-vG8AmJeXVZsW1Ne4Xhn8M8RsrjzVzpBgX0v_Y/edit?usp=sharing
Governeur Morris (Jazzy) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DsBfME9mFgb5Ju22wuOR2C_7RtLT6KPivCtX5JtsvCI/edit?usp=sharing
Thomas Jefferson (McKenna) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r0VNKMu0tRcV3NmktA9C5DVRChQ9vicF1c0UeftuEL8/edit?usp=sharing
Benjamin Franklin (Ellen) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FJzX0iazX_62tSaFA4uFxagkDSZ6eVfUtGV_j1XWHHE/edit?usp=sharing
John Adams (Orin)https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13MsDqfgf7XcMUyoTiHWJj40gh8CjdN6teGCAmMLcwus/edit?usp=sharing
Martha Washington (Kenzie)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Xu2mbYOZs9R-kXFeMWA6rhMnAFXwg9ulfz4KB56aMzg/edit?usp=sharing
Eliza Lucas Pinckney (Harmony)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-9nM766Z1CqBP2Vy5ZHD8Ca9uzbF5lJLp-_5MsF35eU/edit?usp=sharing
Alexander Hamilton (Mikey) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ot3AJDDvPLvBZajQhFiHou7iLrD76IOJBWKwtiZMLYk/edit?usp=sharing
Final Exam, Part 3 - questions 23-29 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ei_ivwMoEPaRqOEaFpmLJeJQW8yX0siRDWS9GL-rzqU/edit?usp=sharing
Presentations
James Madison (Icely) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ddEFF-vG8AmJeXVZsW1Ne4Xhn8M8RsrjzVzpBgX0v_Y/edit?usp=sharing
Governeur Morris (Jazzy) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DsBfME9mFgb5Ju22wuOR2C_7RtLT6KPivCtX5JtsvCI/edit?usp=sharing
Thomas Jefferson (McKenna) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r0VNKMu0tRcV3NmktA9C5DVRChQ9vicF1c0UeftuEL8/edit?usp=sharing
Benjamin Franklin (Ellen) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FJzX0iazX_62tSaFA4uFxagkDSZ6eVfUtGV_j1XWHHE/edit?usp=sharing
John Adams (Orin)https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13MsDqfgf7XcMUyoTiHWJj40gh8CjdN6teGCAmMLcwus/edit?usp=sharing
Martha Washington (Kenzie)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Xu2mbYOZs9R-kXFeMWA6rhMnAFXwg9ulfz4KB56aMzg/edit?usp=sharing
Eliza Lucas Pinckney (Harmony)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-9nM766Z1CqBP2Vy5ZHD8Ca9uzbF5lJLp-_5MsF35eU/edit?usp=sharing
Alexander Hamilton (Mikey) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ot3AJDDvPLvBZajQhFiHou7iLrD76IOJBWKwtiZMLYk/edit?usp=sharing
Day 28
Final Exam, Part 4
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P8t9h6HnwXw6BWRfZc0n0nkGtJRq_1fKtrqjA3n8UHI/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P8t9h6HnwXw6BWRfZc0n0nkGtJRq_1fKtrqjA3n8UHI/edit?usp=sharing
Final Exam, Part 5
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D_WgrO8K3kNZ0MiJTzijhDSywv-NqkZ-eUL582Hzr5Y/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D_WgrO8K3kNZ0MiJTzijhDSywv-NqkZ-eUL582Hzr5Y/edit?usp=sharing
Resources
Lesson Plan - Declaration of Independence http://library.mtsu.edu/tps/lessonplans&ideas/Lesson_Plan--Declaration_of_Independence.pdf
Lesson Plan - Declaration of Independence http://library.mtsu.edu/tps/lessonplans&ideas/Lesson_Plan--Declaration_of_Independence.pdf
Pre-Test
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oCRppOoWcm0pKIsm5nM0VCcP7QJupc6km_IjB2F7Kg0/edit?usp=sharing
Course Description and Learning Goals
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KQ9Ptmbc50M5ZuB_rPH04MhxvqSGp0QDL8RdMGq_LOI/edit?usp=sharing
Build Your Own Website (or make a new page on your existing website) www.weebly.com
Questions Facing the Founders
- What kind of country do we want?
- How much power should the federal government have?
- How much should the common man be trusted?
- Can the other founders be trusted?
- What should be the role of religion in our society?
- What exactly do we mean by “equality,” and who gets to have it?
PRELUDE TO INDEPENDENCE
- A History in Comics of the American Revolution
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Tvv2mzqDpABLB_nIqZVn4YeEGbjEbleYiWYCd9HWNY8/edit?usp=sharing
- The Enlightenment
- Slide Show: Important Ideas and People who Influenced the Founding Fathers
- Jefferson and the Pursuit of Knowledge
- The Townshend Acts
- The Sons of Liberty and the Boston Tea Party
- The Boston Massacre (Why would John Adams, a patriot, agree to defend these British soldiers who had killed 5 colonists and wounded 6?)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1flthZzg6cqYfUnvCtUsP_7QfxRnSC7X_toe2OtP0-O0/edit?usp=sharing
Video Constitution USA Created Equal? http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/home/_
Does the Constitution have what it takes to keep up with modern America? Join Peter Sagal, as he hits the road to find out. Traveling across the country by motorcycle, Sagal is in search of where the U.S. Constitution lives, how it works and how it doesn’t… how it unites us as a nation and how it has nearly torn us apart.
In this episode, Peter learns how the far-reaching changes created by that amendment established new notions of citizenship, equal protection, due process, and personal liberty, altering the relationship between the federal government and the states. In many ways it is this “Second Constitution” that governs the nation we live in today, and it is the Fourteenth Amendment that underlies many landmark Supreme Court decisions that have reshaped the contours of American society.
In Tyler, Texas, Peter meets a group of siblings named Lopez, whose parents successfully challenged a law that prohibited the children of illegal aliens from attending public school. In Kentucky, he talks to a former convict who has served her time and is fighting to regain her right to vote. In Berkeley, California, two women’s insistence on their right to marry has thrust them into a battle with the state of California, in a case headed to the United States Supreme Court. And in New Haven, a white firefighter successfully challenges affirmative action policies that blocked his promotion, claiming the right to “equal protection.”
Research: What did the founders do at the time of:
- American Revolution
- Declaration of Independence
- Continental Congresses
- Constitutional Convention
- After Independence
The Declaration of Independence -
- What was really important about this document?
- In Modern English https://www.surfnetkids.com/independenceday/267/the-declaration-of-independence-in-modern-english/
The Revolution
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/american-revolution-history/videos/founding-fathers-of-innovation
The Continental Congress
A convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies which became the governing body of the United States (USA) during the American Revolution. The Congress met from 1774 to 1789 in three incarnations.
Articles of Confederation
Adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777. This document served as the United States' first constitution, and was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present day Constitution went into effect.
Constitutional Convention
Took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The delegates elected George Washington to preside over the Convention. The result of the Convention was the creation of the United States Constitution,
Video: Constitution USA: A More Perfect Union
http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/watch/a-more-perfect-union/_
Has government gotten too big for its britches?
Bill of Rights http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/bill-of-rights/
Field Trip: ACLU Colorado http://aclu-co.org/
- Solitary Confinement of Juvenileshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-bans-solitary-confinement-for-juveniles-in-federal-prisons/2016/01/25/056e14b2-c3a2-11e5-9693-933a4d31bcc8_story.html
- Criminalization of the Homeless
- Ryan Brown
- Grace Davis
- Masterpiece Cake Shop
- Reproductive Rights
- Douglas County Schools vouchers
Finish DBQ - Articles of Confederation
Rolling Over in Their Graves? What the Founding Fathers Would Think of Us Today.?
Choose one article and answer the following questions:
1. What is the issue that the author believes would have the Founding Fathers turning over in their graves about?
2. What is it about the Founding Fathers' beliefs/intentions would cause them to oppose the government's current actions?
3. What would the author have us do to follow the Founding Fathers intentions on this issue?
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2013/09/28/13-things-about-america-that-would-make-the-founding-fathers-turn-over-in-their-graves-n1711949
http://www.federalobserver.com/2009/09/24/are-our-founders-rolling-in-their-graves/
http://www.uncommonwisdomdaily.com/why-our-founding-fathers-are-rolling-over-in-their-graves-right-now-14530
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/317509-gop-rep-arrogant-obama-executive-actions-have-founding-fathers-turning-over-in-their-graves-
Constitution USA - Episode 2: It's a Free Country
Ask Americans what the Constitution’s most important feature is, and most will say it’s the guarantees of liberty enshrined in the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of the Constitution.
Americans are fiercely proud of their freedoms but they continue to argue about what those basic rights are and how they can be sustained in a changing world. Are our rights unchangeable, or should they evolve over time? What is the proper role for the courts in interpreting rights?
In this hour, Peter explores the history of the Bill of Rights, and why each was included. He’ll look at several important rights cases in American history, involving freedom of speech, freedom of religion, right to legal counsel, cases that have expanded or enforced basic liberties. He’ll also learn how technology, particularly the internet is challenging our right to privacy.
Constitutional Convention - notes
Who were the delegates and what were the deliberations like?
Write a Long View Constitution - Group Work
- Write a Preamble - the reasons for writing a Constitution
- Who will make the rules of the school?
- Will entire student body decide, or will representatives?
- How will representatives be decided?
- How will rules be enforced? Who will decide if rules are broken and what the consequences will be?
- Who will lead the school government? What will the powers be? How will the leader be decided?
http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/watch/built-to-last/
Governor Ralph Carr
http://www.coloradovirtuallibrary.org/digital-colorado/colorado-histories/20th-century/ralph-carr-defender-of-japanese-americans/
Field Trip: Colorado Judicial Learning Center
https://www.colorado.gov/cjlc/_
- Worksheet https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zVaQhLiJ_5P_Znii-KQff6GZa5t2LBKRKZKusEctFRY/edit?usp=sharing
Describe the process for amending the Constitution? Difficult or not? Why was it made so? What are some threats to our Constitution today? What has kept our Constitution alive and allowed it to stay relevant?
- http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/watch/built-to-last/
Study Guide for Final Exam Final Exam
https://docs.google.com/a/jeffcoschools.us/document/d/137ZRbixMJIgIBKsEL4ykB71pJmqrRv4yrGZ3BM9u0Xg/edit?usp=sharing
DBQ Instruction
How to Write a DBQ: Don't Panic, It's Just an Essayhttp://www.pennsbury.k12.pa.us/pennsbury/Staff%20Pages/Pennsbury%20High%20West/Short,%20R./Courses/AP%20European%20History/FRQ-DBQ%20Help/How%20to%20Write%20a%20DBQ%20-%20AP.pdf
How to Write a DBQ: Don't Panic, It's Just an Essay (Slides)http://www.pennsbury.k12.pa.us/pennsbury/Staff%20Pages/Pennsbury%20High%20West/Swope,%20Megan/Courses/Modern%20United%20States%20History/Writing%20Skills%20and%20Aids/How%20to%20Write%20a%20DBQ.pdf
Point of View http://www.pennsbury.k12.pa.us/pennsbury/Staff%20Pages/Pennsbury%20High%20West/Swope,%20Megan/Courses/Modern%20United%20States%20History/Writing%20Skills%20and%20Aids/DBQ%3A%20ANALYZING%20BIAS%20%26%20POINT%20OF%20VIEW.pdf
Resources:The Constitutional Convention http://teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/delegates/bigpicture/
Fakebookhttp://www.classtools.net/FB/home-page
iCivics We're Free, Let's Growhttps://cdn.icivics.org/sites/default/files/uploads/We're%20Free%20Let's%20Grow_1.pdf
Hamilton
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/04/14/474185125/broadways-hamilton-makes-its-way-into-nycs-high-school-curriculumWebsites:
The Constitution Centerhttp://constitutioncenter.org/
Bill of Rights Institutehttp://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/
HISTORY site on The U.S. Constitution www.history.com/topics/constitution
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Education Place http://www.eduplace.com
1For All: Building Awareness of the First Amendmenthttp://1forall.us/
Constitution Day Resources from the Library of Congress http://thomas.loc.gov/teachers/constitution.html
The National Archives: Charters of Freedom This informative online exhibit highlights the founding document and includes helpful links and contextual background. http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/ charters/charters.html
The National Constitution Center An excellent resource which includes activities, primary sources, and background information on the nation’s founding documents. http://constitutioncenter.org/
Declaration of Independence and Couragechrome-extension://gbkeegbaiigmenfmjfclcdgdpimamgkj/views/app.html
The Founders' Library: Thinking As a Founding Father http://constitutioncenter.org/media/files/lesson_plan_fathers_library_plan.pdf
Video:
Our Founding Fathers http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UIMIQA6/ref=pd_cbs__1Declaration of Independence 1776
http://billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/declaration-of-independence/
Constitution 1787
http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/constitution/
Bill of Rights 1791
http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-documents/bill-of-rights/
Views on the Founders Today
- Americans Didn't Always Worship the Founding Fathers http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/02/when-did-americans-start-worshipping-the-founders/385432/?utm_source=SFFB
- A Historian's Case for Why We Should Stop Talking About the Founding Fathers http://inthesetimes.com/article/17976/founding-fathers-outdated
- Founders Chic http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/09/founders-chic/302773/
Federalism and Power
- Constitution USA PBS http://www.pbs.org/tpt/constitution-usa-peter-sagal/federalism/
Religion: What should be the role of religion in our society?
- The Faith (and Doubts) of Our Fathers http://www.economist.com/node/21541718
- How Christian Were the Founders?
- The History of the Second Amendment
- http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndschol/89vand.pdf
- Video: The 2nd Amendment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gsmyB_xZxk
- Man of Mystery http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/george-washington-man-of-mystery/462810/?utm_source=SFFB
- What George Washington Thought About the Constitution http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/11/what-george-washington-thought-about-the-constitution/247688/?utm_source=SFFB
- HBO John Adams 7-part miniseries http://www.hbo.com/john-adams
- Sorry, HBO, John Adams wasn't that much of a hero http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/18/AR2008041802526.html
- Lesson 6: Adams - Our Second President
Madison
Jefferson
Hamilton
How Teachers are using Hamilton The Musical in the Classroom https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/03/14/how-teachers-are-using-hamilton-the-musical-in-the-classroom/
- The American Revolutionary
- Diverse Cast of the Broadway play "Hamilton"
Lyrics to Songs from "Alexander Hamilton"
http://atlanticrecords.com/HamiltonMusic/
Franklin
Founding Mothers
- What About the Founding Mothers? http://msmagazine.com/blog/2013/07/04/what-about-the-founding-mothers/
- History Presents: The Founding Mothers Documentary
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- Study Guide http://www.history.com/images/media/pdf/FoundingMothers.pdf
- Cokie Roberts Interview on her book Founding Mothers
King George III
http://www.biography.com/people/king-george-iii
John Locke
Jean Jacques Rousseau
What Are Your Constitutional Rights?
http://www.denbar.org/docs/Individual%20Rights%20and%20Liberties%20in%20Colorado.pdf?ID=124
Watching Guide http://bento.cdn.pbs.org/hostedbento-prod/filer_public/2013/05/20/constitution_usa_episode_onestudentguidehigh_final2.pdfBalance between state and federal power - farmers growing cannabis - legal according to state law - but illegal federally. Is it legal or illegal? Both at same time? Harborside Health Center (dispensary of medical marijuana). Top 10 tax payer in CA. Subject to capital punishment 60000 plants can receive the death penalty.
Constitutional scholar - the hinge of history; like the Big Bang - brought people together to govern themselves.
Articles of Confederation - drafted during A League of Friendship. Couldn't levy taxes. Had to beg states for taxes. Agreement didn't happen often
What were we turning away from?
Colonies are very different. Like proposing a world government today - one legislature, army,. Martians = Brits, French. Create one indivisible nation. We will be free, no one will be able to push us around.
1787 Independence Hall - a group of delegates from Continental Congress called it together, most notably Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. Need to do something to strengthen this gov't.
Madison's Virginia Plan - called for scrapping of A of C. A supremee
Met in secret through 4 summer months
States didn't trust each other.
Compromise - House - more power to populous states, Senate - equal representation
Elected president, judiciary , could raise army and pay for it, interstate commerce.
Supremacy Clause - federal laws trump state laws
States - police, schools, enforce won laws.
Balance of power - didn't want a government of enormous power, but one of energy.
Source of tension - struggle for nation's soul: slavery
Union faced collapse 75 years later. 1860 election of Lincoln. Secession - unconstitutionnal - essence of anarchy. 750,000 dead. Abolished slavery. Federalism victorious.
Guns: Missoula, MT. Advocate of gun rights. Liberty oriented. Avg gun-owning family in MT has 67 guns. Fights power of US gov't. Commerce clause - fed gov't has distorted meaning. Montana Buckaroo rifle. Sold only in MT. Fed govt has no power to regulate it. Too big for its britches. Roll some back. Turn back over to states. more subject to will of people. The original intention of Constitution.
Federalism - states are labs of democracy. E.g. Wyoming gave women right to vote. Massachusetts model for Obamacare.
Las Vegas - experiment in freedom. 1930's most liberal marriage and divorce laws. Legalized gambling prostitution.
Nevada needs water - Colorado River - Hoover Dam - metaphor for how federal government improves our lives.
Growing economy of the US. Came during national crisis - The Great Depression. 25% unemployment, cities and states went backrupt. COuntry on verge of revolution. 1933 Roosevelt launched the New Deal. 150 years had let economy manage itself. Pumped money to stimulate. Federal projects to put people back to work. Social Security Unemployment, FDIC.
Controversy and opposition - called him Communist. Expanded federal power and bureaucracy.
Used power to protect people
Slide Show Presentations
Abigail Adams (Emarie) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qANWJxFUQ1TVhezniKsWtePChNz1CxCIOk2y1-4cOc4/edit?usp=sharing
George Mason (Rosalind) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HNB2TuHMmrt_C9x_zd8jRGilcWdMsnj-EhA4Eh_IoxI/edit?usp=sharing
Mercy Otis Warren (Jillian) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Wg2oQwa0oiL3jJbJwxlAWhO8GEosOCEwECVR-c1RIJ4/edit?usp=sharing
James Madison (Icely) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ddEFF-vG8AmJeXVZsW1Ne4Xhn8M8RsrjzVzpBgX0v_Y/edit?usp=sharing
Gouverneur Morris (Jasmyne) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DsBfME9mFgb5Ju22wuOR2C_7RtLT6KPivCtX5JtsvCI/edit?usp=sharing
George Washington (Mikael) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rIgUzSescvoWSgP-UWq-WpNGWCB50Tkzi1_pInQqR2M/edit?usp=sharing
Thomas Jefferson (McKenna) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r0VNKMu0tRcV3NmktA9C5DVRChQ9vicF1c0UeftuEL8/edit?usp=sharing
Benjamin Franklin (Ellen) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FJzX0iazX_62tSaFA4uFxagkDSZ6eVfUtGV_j1XWHHE/edit?usp=sharing
John Adams (Orin)https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13MsDqfgf7XcMUyoTiHWJj40gh8CjdN6teGCAmMLcwus/edit?usp=sharing
Deborah Read Franklin (Ellie) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dhgHbVViEZfrtrnV4qMLWDh6vU8PzliDFkHIe2nu6ug/edit?usp=sharing
Martha Washington (Kenzie)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Xu2mbYOZs9R-kXFeMWA6rhMnAFXwg9ulfz4KB56aMzg/edit?usp=sharing
Eliza Lucas Pinckney (Harmony)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-9nM766Z1CqBP2Vy5ZHD8Ca9uzbF5lJLp-_5MsF35eU/edit?usp=sharing
Alexander Hamilton (Mikey) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ot3AJDDvPLvBZajQhFiHou7iLrD76IOJBWKwtiZMLYk/edit?usp=sharing