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Thursday, October 2nd

10/1/2014

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Today's Goals:
  • Understand what the Bill of Rights is and what freedoms Amendments #1-10 and 14 protect

Essential Questions (related to our overall project)
  • Where do we see the ideals of security, liberty and equality appear in our nation's founding documents?
  • How do we balance these ideals when coming up with just policies for controversial political and social issues?

Starter
What are the three components of the rhetorical triangle and what must be true for a message to be effective?

Agenda
1. 20 minutes to finish Dec. of Ind. packet
  • If you are done, make sure you are caught up with edmodo posts, respond to people who have responded to your original post and look at this List of grievances (complaints) to the King of England in the Dec. of Ind

2. Discuss Declaration Packet: What are the ideologies upon which our country is founded?

3. Preamble to the Bill of Rights
You'll be given the full text of the Bill of Rights, which includes the preamble of the Constitution plus the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.

Annotation Exercise – Using only the preamble, annotate with an eye to answering the following questions.
  • Which words represent "security"?
  • Which words represent "liberty"?
  • Which words represent "equality"?

2. Now, lets get started looking at the Bill of Rights

A. With the Bill of Rights, Full Text: With a partner, put each amendment into “real” English. What does each individual amendment really mean? Can you put it all into one or two easily understandable sentences?

B. With the Bill of Rights in Plain English: When you are finished with the full text exercise above, come pick up a copy of the Bill of Rights in Plain English. How did you do? Cross-reference your 'plain English' definitions with mine, and adjust yours if you need to.

C. Journal #4-- With the Bill of Rights Worksheet: Now, write your “final” interpretation of each Amendment next to its number. In addition, you'll have to pick/draw an animal (or other symbol, but c'mon, get creative!) that best represents that amendment. Good luck!  

 HOMEWORK
  • Finish Bill of Rights activity by tomorrow
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