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Celebrate Freedom Week

Celebrate Freedom Week. Flipped Assignment:. Only 6% can name all four rights guaranteed by the First Amendments (24% cannot name even one. 43% can name two or three 62% cannot name all three branches of the Federal government (One-third cannot name even one. 15% can name two.)

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Celebrate Freedom Week

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  1. Celebrate Freedom Week

  2. Flipped Assignment: Only 6% can name all four rights guaranteed by the First Amendments (24% cannot name even one. 43% can name two or three 62% cannot name all three branches of the Federal government (One-third cannot name even one. 15% can name two.) 35% believe the Constitution mandates English as the official language. Only 7% can correctly identify the Constitutional Convention as the authors. 4 in 5 do not know how many amendments there are to the Constitution. 1 in 5 do not know that the President is Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces 84% believe that the U.S. Constitution is the document that states that “all men are created equal”, thus confusing it with the Declaration of Independence. 1 out of 6 believe that the Constitution establishes America as a Christian nation. 32% believe that John Hancock had a hand in drafting the Constitution.

  3. Benjamin Rush Row 2:John Hancock Row 3:John Jay Row 4:John Witherspoon Row 5:John Peter Muhlenberg Row 6:Charles Carroll Back Row:Jonathan Trumbull

  4. Rush: from Pennsylvania, treasurer of the US Mint from 1789-1813; also a significant physician, writer, educator; Founding Fathers, signed DOI and attended Continental Congress Hancock: from Massachusetts was first to sign DOI; president of the Continental Congress in 1775 Jay: from New York at the Continental Congress; signer of the DOI; negotiated the Treaty of Paris in 1783 that ended the American Revolution; diplomat to England in late 1700s where he negotiated Jay’s Treaty that helped end the threat of another war with British Witherspoon: New Jersey representative that signed the DOI; later President of modern Princeton University Muhlenberg: soldier during Colonial, Revolutionary, and post-revolutionary eras in Pennsylvania; elected to the first US Congress Carroll: Signer of DOI; delegate to the Constitutional Convention; Senator from Maryland Trumbull Sr. The only colonial governor who supported Patriots in the Revolution

  5. Collect “Founder’s Social Network” Handouts (you should have 7 total for the 7 “father’s” • In groups, research one of the founders online. • After you have completed your information, Change groups to include all different research groups. • Exchange information. Directions:

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