Week of October 21-25, 2024

Monday:  School Holiday

Tuesday:  Students will identify colonial grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence and explain how those grievances were addressed in the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  (Warm-Up Day 4: As we have on each warm up, students will follow this procedure: Without using their graphic organizer/notes, try answering the questions. When they finish, and if necessary, check the notes and then submit.). Reminder:  Students must recite the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution this week. (Test grade)

The Preamble:  We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Wednesday:  Students will analyze the arguments of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, including those of Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, James Madison, and George Mason.    Study Sheet #4 (Constitution Era and the previous eras, including Exploration, Colonial America and American Independence)

Thursday:   Students will analyze the issues of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, including the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise.

Friday:  Students will analyze the 7 Principles of the Constitution.

 

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