The Constitution and Bill of Rights - Class Recap

Fireworks over Niagara Falls, in 2009. 

Hi everyone,

Welcome back from your weekend. Here's what we did today in class:

Learning Targets Addressed: 
SS.HS.KN.ALT.04: I can explain how different ideological movements and philosophies shape politics.
SS.HS.CO.ALT.05: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.

Soundtrack: “We Like To Party!” by Vengaboys. Selected for today because hopefully the weekend was fun! Lyrics here.

AGENDA 3/3/14:
News Brief
Quiz Review
The Constitution
The Bill of Rights

Homework: Read the blog! Next news brief: Emi.

News Brief: Today's article was brought in by Reed, who selected this story: NYTimes.com - Obama Starts Initiative for Young Black Men, Noting His Own Experience. A very interesting story - we know for sure that our young men of color need help. Hopefully this government program will do just that.

Quiz Review: After the news brief, I passed out graded quizzes from last class. I actually felt like I was pretty easy on the grading, but the class average was still around a D for it. If you did not hit proficiency, you definitely need to study and retake it, please! If you have not taken it, please find a time to do so soon.

The Constitution: Finally, we started going through the worksheet answers about what makes up the U.S. Constitution. I enjoyed all of your questions and trying to explain the answers!

The Bill of Rights: The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. To start this section, I showed this clip from The Daily Show, looking at what some people working for FOX News had to say in regards to the Bill of Rights and the Boston Marathon bomber:

After this, we went through the Amendments and tried to put them in our own words. Next class, we will work on the second worksheet for a bit. All of this is so important - it is how our country runs! See you on Wednesday!