Welcome

1. Welcome Please pick up one of each of the handouts on the back table. Pick up your name card from the bin on the side table ( block 4) Pick up a textbook from Mrs. Wenk Place your homework ( mindmaps) in the blue bin in the back of the room

2. Textbooks • Please write your name in the textbooks. • When the seating chart comes around please place your text # by your name. • Please take these home, take good care of them, return them in June

3. Scavenger hunt • AS you are waiting for the seating chart to come around… • Try to answer the scavenger hunt questions that will help you get to know this new textbook. • Try your best, if there is a question that you get stuck on, move on the the next question.

4. Business Card introduction • Let’s get to know the people who we are sharing class with. • With the person you are paired up with, be ready to introduce this person to us ( their name) and one thing about them from their answers given.

5. Starting a Government from Scratch • At the time the Founders were shaping the future of a new country, John Adams suggested the President should be addressed as “His Excellency.” Happily, others recognized that such a title was inappropriate. Though the proper form of address represents only a small detail, defining everything about the Presidency was central to the idea of America that was a work-in-progress when the nation was young.

6. Guiding Questions • •What actions are necessary in order to start a new government? • •What would one of the major concerns be in preserving the new government and country? • •What would be the role of the leader or president of the country?

7. Learning Objectives • •Describe the role of the government and the president in establishing a new country. • •Describe some of the actions the government bodies would probably take to ensure order and security. • •List some of the challenges and problems, as well as accomplishments that might occur in forming a new government.

8. Setting the stage… • Has anyone in your families ever makes a “to do list.” • Think carefully about what the Founders had to do to start a brand new country, which officially began with the ratification of the Articles of Confederation on March 1, 1781. • Imagine you've just formed a new country. Brainstorm a list of actions the Continental Congress would probably take in starting a new country. Consider the many kinds of things a government does

9. Let’s look at the Contintental Congress’s to do list • Please take 10 minutes to read the list. • I will read some of the items for us to really examine.

10. Think about…and share with the person next to you.. • The ways the government helps out with activities Americans do every day, such as going to schools supported and regulated by the government, spending money coined by the government, riding on roads maintained by the government, paying taxes for the government's use, sending and receiving mail, and so on.

11. The Presidency • •Now think about the Presidency. • Read or review the section about the President on The Articles of Confederation,

12. Take your textbooks home • Next class…. We will be reviewing the branches of government and the Bill of Rights

13. Welcome back ! • Please pick up one of each of the papers in the back. • Have out the articles of confederation paper from last class. • Pick up from the bin : name card, interactive notebook… LEAVE the folder behind If you can grab a friends items from the bin that would be very helpful! THANK YOU

14. Discussion questions… Each row gets one… Row 1 – How strong is the office of presidency as compared to today’s president?Theresponsibility to preside over Congress's meetings, a one-year term, only one term in any three-year period, and nothing else specific in the way of powers or responsibilities.) Row 2 -What does it mean to preside over a meeting? Meaning what happens at a meeting? Row 3 - What responsibilities does that task entail ( to preside over a meeting) ? What is on the “to do” list to have a meeting? Row 4 What power could that give the person who presides ( over the meeting) IN other words, what might they be able to do? Row 5 If the term of the President was set at one year, and a candidate could only be elected for that one-year term once every three years, how would those requirements most likely affect the power of the President?

15. In your interactive notebook • Using the resources that you received in class and from our discussion, answer (1) of the following questions on their own page in your notebook. • 1) What actions do you think are needed when you start a new government? • 2) What is one major concern in keeping a new government and country safe/preserved? • 3) What would the role of the leader or president of the country be? • Label this NUMBER 1 with today’s date.

16. Bill of Rights • Lets have Tim and Moby remind us of the Bill of Rights……

17. Bill of Rights…. • Bill of Rights • Amendment 1 Freedoms, Petitions, Assembly • Amendment 2 Right to bear arms • Amendment 3 Quartering of soldiers • Amendment 4 Search and arrest • Amendment 5 Rights in criminal cases • Amendment 6 Right to a fair trial • Amendment 7 Rights in civil cases • Amendment 8 Bail, fines, punishment • Amendment 9 Rights retained by the People • Amendment 10 States' rights

18. Turn and talk • Which amendment do you think is the most important and why?

19. Scavenger Hunt • Around the room are the first 10 amendments • Your mission is to….. • 1) Read the amendments on your paper. • 2) match the amendment on your paper to the originally written one found in the room… when you think you found it, record that number on your paper • 3) sit back in your seat when you are done….

20. 9/20+9/21 • Please have out your Seasonal Partner paper, get to know the bill of rights paper from last class. • Pick up your interactive notebook • Pick up Issues and resolution paper in the back and a Federalist promise fulfilled paper • Take your time and help a classmate get organized too!

21. Seasonal Partners • Now we are going to pick seasonal partners. • You will pick a DIFFERENT PERSON for each season. • We will rotate during our lessons to work with these people. • If you need help finding a partner, I am here to help

22. Move to your summer partner • Please be kind as you move to your partner, help each other get organized. • Have the Federalist Promise fulfilled paper with you as you move. Leave other papers behind under your desk. • Read front and back of the paper. • Answer questions 1-5 with your summer partner. • Complete sentences please.

23. Say goodbye to your partner • Closure.. In your interactive notebooks record item number 2) with today’s date • Pick one of thequestions 1,2,3 found on the paper that says “ Get to know your Bill of Rights” • You may add color/pictures to illustrate your work if you want.

24. Issues and Resolutions • Let’s look at a video clip that reminds us about the power or rather weakness of the Articles of Confederation • Let’s also look at a video clip that showcases the issues and resolutions that emerged as the delegates at the Second Continental Congress as it plans a new government.

25. Let’s look at those specific issues and how they were resolved • As the issues are read, record the resolution as we review.

26. Next class • Pre-Assessment of 8th grade curriculum • There is nothing you need to study • Please bring a pen – blue or black ink to complete • No homework! • Have a great weekend!

27. If time…. A painless guide to the US Constitution.. Video style