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US Constitution

US Constitution. Bellesini Academy 2011 Summer Program. What do you already know about the US Constitution from your study of it in chapters 9 & 9.5 of US History?. Brainstorm to see what you can come up with! We’ll write what you come up with on the board. Why study about the Constitution?.

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US Constitution

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  1. US Constitution Bellesini Academy 2011 Summer Program

  2. What do you already know about the US Constitution from your study of it in chapters 9 & 9.5 of US History? • Brainstorm to see what you can come up with! • We’ll write what you come up with on the board.

  3. Why study about the Constitution? • The Constitution of the United States was written in Philadelphia more than 200 years ago in 1787. It was a plan for a new government for our country. We need to study the Constitution and its history to understand our government and how it is supposed to work. Knowing our past will help us understand the rights and responsibilities that we have today. • We will discover what the men who wrote our Constitution thought the purposes of government should be and you will learn why they thought it was important to limit the powers of government.

  4. How will we study the Constitution? • You will have homework each night. Most of the time you will have a section in the book to read. You must do this reading and then answer questions that correspond to the section in your study guide. • We will spend the next week or so studying the ideas that the Framers of the Constitution used when they met in Philadelphia in 1787. Then we will begin preparing for our own Constitutional Convention. You will be assigned a role of one of the delegates to the Convention to research and play at our mock Convention.

  5. How will I earn my grade? • 25%--Daily Grades, including: • Study Guide completion—I will ask you to put your study guide out on your desk at the beginning of each class period so that I may walk around to check it for completion • Quizzes, worksheets, and other class work and homework • Binder check at the end of the unit • 25%--Unit Test that will cover everything in study guides • 10%--Study Guide Correction—you will hand in your study guide the day of the test and it will be graded to be sure that you have corrected and added to your study guide answers when we discuss each section in class. • 15%--Delegate Research—you will be required to conduct research and submit a delegate information sheet on your assigned delegate • 25%--Participation in the Convention simulation

  6. What’s our class routine? • We will begin each class by putting your homework out on your desk for me to check while you take your quiz. You will receive a grade for your homework. • We will take a 10 minute quiz over your homework or what we took notes over the previous day. You are allowed to use your study guide for the quiz! When you finish your quiz, you will flip your paper upside down on your desk to let me know you are done. There will be no talking during the quiz. If you talk or look at someone else’s paper, you will receive a zero automatically! • Once we are all finished with the quiz, I will collect them. I’ll grade them that night. The next day I’ll pass the quizzes back, we’ll go over the answers, and you’ll use the same sheet for the next quiz. Some questions on the quiz will be on the test, so it’s important to know the answers!

  7. Class Routine (continued) • Put study guide out on your desk • Go over answers to yesterday’s quiz (5 min.) • Take quiz using study guide (10 minutes) • Discussion of homework as well as other class activities—you will correct your study guide during our discussion of that day’s lesson • Organize Binder • Assign homework for that night and write assignment down!! (2 min.)

  8. Textbooks • We will be using two books for our study of the Constitution: • We The People, The Citizen and the Constitution (Level 1) • We The People (Level 2) • Some of what we will learn will be review from what you learned this past year in chapter 9 of your US History class. But these books are different in that they are a history of ideas. They will explain the most important ideas of our Constitution and tell us how they were developed. They will also teach us about the people and events that were important to these ideas.

  9. Distribute Textbooks • Today you will just get a copy of one of your texts. You won’t need the other one until next week. • You will receive a textbook with a number on it. This number corresponds with the number you are on my class list. • Be sure not to lose your book. • Remember that you need to bring it to class each day and take it home each night in order to complete your homework.

  10. For the first 7 days of this unit we will use the book We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution (Level 1—has a blue band across the top) to answer the study guide questions. • We will read the first section together today in class and then you will read and answer the questions for one of the following sections as homework each night. We will discuss that section the next day in class. • You will be responsible for correcting and adding to your answers as we discuss each section. Your study guide will be your guide for studying for your Unit Test. DO NOT LOSE IT!

  11. Lesson 1: What were the British colonies in America like in the 1770s? • Today we will read lesson one together and answer the questions that go with it in your study guide. We will take turns reading paragraphs. • Open your text to page 5. • Have your study guide ready to answer the questions as we read. • Your answer should include everything in the PowerPoint that is in yellow.

  12. How was America different from Europe? • There was a great deal of unsettled space for people to settle and to own land • Only rich people could afford to own land in Europe, but in the colonies land was cheap.

  13. Why did people come to America? • People came with the hope of owning their own land so they could farm to support their families

  14. Who lived in the colonies? • Many settlers came from… • Great Britain • Others came from other countries such as… • France, Germany, Holland, and Sweden, each group bringing their own customs and ways of life. • People whose ancestors had lived on the land for thousands of years who were called… • Indians, some of whom accepted the settlers peacefully and others fought the settlers. • Half a million… • African people and their descendants who made up 20% of the population, most of whom had been brought to work as slaves.

  15. With all of these different people with different backgrounds, languages, and traditions, people had diverse ideas about what kinds of things? • Religion • Government • Rights • This variety of ideas helped create a society different from society in Europe.

  16. In the 1770s most Americans were self-sufficient. This meant that they did what things for themselves? • Raised their own food • Wove their own cloth for clothes • Built homes and barns • Made their own furniture and tools • Made their own medicines • Traded any extra farm products at a local store for the few goods they could not make for themselves.

  17. What opportunities did people have in America that they didn’t have in Europe? • The lived… • Better than most people anywhere else in the world • There was plenty of… • Plenty of work for everyone • They worked hard but the land was… • Fertile and they grew plenty of food • More people in the colonies could… • Read and write than in any other nation in the world • Many owned enough property to be able to… • Vote—more people could vote than anywhere else • Most of the colonists had a chance to earn a good living through… • Hard work. Wealth and family name did not mean as much as in Europe.

  18. What did the American colonies learn to do during the time when they were being “ignored” by Britain? • Voting • They could follow their own religious beliefs freely • Their rights were very important to them

  19. What did the American colonies learn to do during the time when they were being “ignored” by Britain? • They learned to govern themselves • They used the ideas about government that they had brought with them from Britain to develop their own governments

  20. In what way were people in the American colonies much different than people in Europe when it came to government? • They participated in government much more than in Europe • They thought about what kind of government they wanted • Most people in Europe just accepted the government that they had without questioning it. • They began asking themselves if King George III was really protecting their rights.

  21. Why do we call people such as George Washington and Ben Franklin “Founders?” • They helped to “found” or establish our country • Led the fight to free our country from British rule • Developed their own ideas about what type of government would be best for America

  22. Homework for Tonight • Put your study guide in your binder right now so that you won’t lose it • Finish reading Lesson 1 and answering the study guide questions (if we haven’t finished it in class) • Read Lesson 2 (pp. 15-19) in We the People • Answer the study guide questions for Lesson2

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