Unit 1:
Government Beginnings
Day 5:
Learning Target: Students will be able to identify and explain the purpose of government through group/class discussions.
1. Quote:
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
-John Adams
2. Continue to discuss the DBQ from Friday.
a. discuss student responses
3. Small group discussion on the Articles of Confederation
b. discuss case studies
c. Come together to identify what went wrong in the case studies
4. Look at the Compromises to fix the Articles of Confederation
5. Look at "The English roots of the Bill of Rights"
-give evidene of where our political beginnings came from
Exit Ticket: Students will list three documents and their influence on the development of our government.