Close Reading of Jean Fritz's book Shh! We are Writing the Constitution

9/16/13

Today students are doing a close reading activity over Jean Fritz's book, Shh! We are Writing the Constitution. Working in pairs students were given a passage pertaining to one of five areas:


1: The plan for government

2: Compromise

3: A Work in Progress

4: Checks and Balances

5: Ratification

Tomorrow is Constitution Day and we will looking at what would happen without certain rights.

Preamble to the Constitution

9/12/13

Today we analyzed the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. In the Government Links section you can find a pdf version of the annotation done during 3rd period today (all of the classes were the same). Below is what it looks like:

Tomorrow we will be annotating the 1st Amendment. All of this is preparing students for Constitution week, which starts on Monday.  Be looking for a family assignment next Wednesday!!!