Grade 6-8 The Bill of Rights & Me

The purpose of this lesson is to investigate the Bill of Rights through the perspective of someone living during the ratification period. After exploring the historical perspective of the Bill of Rights through study of the Dissent of the Minority in Pennsylvania, students will be asked to apply the rights they learned about to their lives today and assess, critique, and solve problems based on the modern meaning of these rights.

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Standards

Common Core

Grades

6, 7, 8

Subjects

Foundations of Democracy

Resource Types

Lesson Plans

Teaching Strategies

Debate, Project-Based Learning, Primary Source, Informational Text, Whole Class, Whole Class Discussion, Whole Class Deliberation, Small Group, Small Group Discussion, Small Group Deliberation

Civic Days

Bill of Rights Day, Constitution Day

Constitution Articles

First Amendment, Second Amendment, Third Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment, Seventh Amendment, Eighth Amendment, Ninth Amendment, 10th Amendment

Tags

ratification