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Unit Introduction Essay Lesson 8th grade level Overview Standards Objectives Materials Lesson Plan Handouts DVD Introduction Reinforcement Review Extension Options Homework Extensions Real Life Portal Back of the Book Resources Answer Key (pgs. 205-218) Reading Quizzes (pgs. 221-241) Landmark Sup. Court Cases (pgs. 245-257) DVD Guides (pgs. 261-266) Glossary (pgs. 269-273) Educational Resources (pgs. 277-280) Legal Experts & Scholars (pgs 283-289) Parent Letter (p. 290)
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies 8. Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal U.S. texts, including the application of constitutional principles and use of legal reasoning (e.g., in U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions and dissents) and the premises, purposes, and arguments in works of public advocacy (e.g., The Federalist, presidential addresses). 9. Analyze seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenthcentury foundational U.S. documents of historical and literary significance (including The Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Lincolns Second Inaugural Address) for their themes, purposes, and rhetorical features.
Which of these documents did NOT influence the Founders ideas about natural rights? 1. Magna Carta 2. John Lockes Two Treatises of Government 3. English Declaration of Rights 4. Frances Declaration of the Rights of Man 5. Not sure
Consensus: shared decisionmaking not simply based on majority rule. Everyone in the group gets a fair hearing.
How has the importance of various individual rights changed over time? How has it stayed the same?
Founders Unit Lesson 1, BRRL p. 10 Rights Attitude Inventory: List the following rights in order of importance to you. Number 1 will be the most important; Number 10 the least important:
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Responsibility
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What are the Origins of the Bill of Rights? 2. Rights Attitude Inventory 3. Student Handout B Foundations of Our Rightsp.11: Summarizes documents that guaranteed rights.
Using the Background Essay and your discussions as your guide, discuss Handout Bp. 11.
Right
US Bill of Rights (1791) First: freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition
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Third: freedom from quartering troops
Right
Fourth: search and seizure rights
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Fifth: due process rights
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Sixth: fair trial rights
Right
Eighth: freedom from excessive fines, cruel and unusual punishment
Magna Carta (1215) Petition of Right (1628) Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641) Declaration of Rights and Toleration Acts (1689) Right violated in the colonies? (1763-1776)
What are the Origins of the Bill of Rights? 4. Student Handout C Founding Documents and Philosophiesp. 12: Compare & contrast documents.
Enrichment Activities, p. 5
James Madison: If men were angels, no government would be necessary. (Federalist #51, 1788)
Pastor Martin Niemoller: --First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so I said nothing. --Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. --Then came the trade unionists, but I was not a trade unionist. --And then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I did little. --Then when they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me.
Which of these documents did NOT influence the Founders ideas about natural rights? 1. Magna Carta 2. John Lockes Two Treatises of Government 3. English Declaration of Rights 4. Frances Declaration of the Rights of Man 5. Not sure
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