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Roles of the President - Classroom Resource Packet and Anywhere Activity

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Constitution Primary Sources and Activities on DocsTeach

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Use this page to find primary sources related to the Constitution and the "big ideas" it contains, as well as document-based learning activities to share with your students.

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The work of many minds, the Constitution stands as a model of cooperative statesmanship and the art of compromise.

In Philadelphia on May 14, 1787, the Federal Convention convened to revise the Articles of Confederation. But through discussion and debate it became clear that rather than amend the existing Articles, the Convention would draft an entirely new frame of government. All through the summer, in closed sessions, the delegates debated, and redrafted the articles of the new Constitution. Among the chief points at issue were how much power to allow the central government, how many representatives in Congress to allow each state, and how these representatives should be elected.

On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document they had created. September 17th is designated as Constitution Day to commemorate the signing.

Use this page to find primary sources related to the Constitution and the "big ideas" it contains, as well as document-based learning activities to share with your students.

Find more information about the creation and history of the Constitution on " America's Founding Documents" or access more ideas for observing Constitution Day on the National Archives website.

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The work of many minds, the Constitution stands as a model of cooperative statesmanship and the art of compromise. In Philadelphia on May 14, 1787, the Federal Convention convened to revise the Articles of Confederation. But through discussion and debate it became clear that rather than amend the existing Articles, the Convention would draft an entirely new frame of government.

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All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

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All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. The Executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.

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The below digital notebook was created by the White House Historical Association to assist students and teachers using "The White House: A Video Tour" in their classrooms. Even if students are learning in a virtual, in-person, or hybrid format, these materials are accessible and will accompany them on their journey through these tours. The materials feature vocabulary, reflection questions, and other activities to encourage students to deepen understandings and create meaning in their exploration of the "People's House."

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Document analysis is the first step in working with primary sources. Teach your students to think through primary source documents for contextual understanding and to extract information to make informed judgments.
Follow this progression:
Use these worksheets - for photos, written documents, artifacts, posters, maps, cartoons, videos, and sound recordings - to teach your students the process of document analysis.

Don't stop with document analysis though. Analysis is just the foundation. Move on to activities in which students use the primary sources as historical evidence, like on DocsTeach.org.

The first few times you ask students to work with primary sources, and whenever you have not worked with primary sources recently, model careful document analysis using the worksheets. Point out that the steps are the same each time, for every type of primary source:

1. Meet the document.

2. Observe its parts.

3. Try to make sense of it.

4. Use it as historical evidence.

Once students have become familiar with using the worksheets, direct them to analyze documents as a class or in groups without the worksheets, vocalizing the four steps as they go.

Eventually, students will internalize the procedure and be able to go through these four steps on their own every time they encounter a primary source document. Remind students to practice this same careful analysis with every primary source they see.

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Day 1 Steel Strike of 1952 Lesson from the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum

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Day 3 Mapping the Constitution Activity from the Teaching the Six Big Ideas in the Constitution Lesson from the Center for Legislative Archives

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Day 3 Mapping the Constitution Activity from the Teaching the Six Big Ideas in the Constitution Lesson from the Center for Legislative Archives

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Summary:

This lesson engages students in a study of the Constitution to learn the significance of "Six Big Ideas" contained in it. Students analyze the text of the Constitution in a variety of ways, examine primary sources to identify their relationship to its central ideas and debate the core constitutional principles as they relate to today's political issues.

Rationale:

In order to understand how our government works students must understand the major ideas that underpin it. This lesson asks students to explore those ideas and apply them to current issues.

Guiding Question:

What is the significance of the Six Big Ideas in the Constitution historically and for Americans today? The Six Big Ideas are:

1. limited government

2. republicanism

3. checks and balances

4. federalism

5. separation of powers

6. popular sovereignty

Materials:

U.S. Constitution
Background information on Founding Fathers (online)
Copies of primary sources
4 Handouts
Answer Key (Activity 1&4)

Recommended Grade Levels:

Grades 8 - 12

Courses:

American history; U.S. government; Civics

Topics included in this lesson:

limited government, republicanism, checks and balances, federalism, separation of powers, popular sovereignty, Founding Fathers

Time Required:

The time needed to complete each step of this lesson is presented in parenthesis at each step. The lesson can be done as a whole or each step can be done separately (except Step 4 which should follow Step 3).

Vocabulary:

Articles of Confederation

Federal

Ratification

Sovereignty

Great Compromise

Republic

3/5 Compromise

Learning Steps:

1: Orientation to the Constitution - Mapping the Text (45 minutes)

To understand the Six Big Ideas which underpin the Constitution students need to be familiar with the text itself. Mapping the text of the Constitution presents the national charter in a way that illustrates the attention the Founders gave to the structure and power of government. The 4379 words of the U.S. Constitution are the foundation of our nation and establish the federal government's structures and branches. By counting the words in each article and calculating the percentage of the whole it represents, students can determine how much of the overall project was dedicated to each structure or power.

Fill out the table on Handout 1 to determine the number of words contained in each Article of the Constitution, and the percentage of the whole document that represents. This can be done easily with a digital copy of the text using the word count feature available in most word processing programs. Note: count only the words in the sentence that comprises Article VII, not the summarizing/concluding date.

Map the Constitution by representing the percentages from the table in a visual form on Handout 1. Using different colors for each of the Articles and the Preamble, color in the squares to represent the percentage of the whole Constitution that is dedicated to each article. Each square represents 1% of the document (round up or down as necessary).

Hold a class discussion to analyze the map and address the following questions: Which topics received the most attention in the Constitution? Does the map suggest hypotheses about the relative importance to the Founders of the powers of the new government? To what extent do the powers of each branch of government displayed in the map match how the federal government works today?

2: Introducing the Founders (45 minutes)

Studying the Founders themselves can aid in understanding the government they created. Many of the Founders knew each other before the Constitutional Convention and were able to draw on their personal relationships when trying to garner a consensus for specific proposals to be included in the Constitution. Students will explore these relationships by creating a Founders' Social Network using Handout 2.

The teacher may assign a Founder to each student or allow the students to choose one. After students complete the profile and likes section on Handout 2, post them on the wall. Students will then browse the other profiles to determine who would likely be "friends" with their assigned Founder, then fill out the Friends section of the handout.

Direct students to these web sites for biographical information:

3: Outlining the Constitution's Six Big Ideas (45 minutes)

Students will analyze the text of the Constitution to identify specific examples of the Six Big Ideas in action. Provide the list of the Six Big Ideas to the students, direct them to define each term, then discuss with the whole class to check for understanding.

Divide the students into six groups with each group assigned a Big Idea. Provide a copy of the Constitution to each group (printed or electronic) and direct them to examine the text to identify two examples of the assigned Big Idea in action. Students will fill in Handout 3 with the quote from the Constitution and its location. Students will then rephrase the quote in their own words to hone in on its meaning. There will be multiple correct answers for each Big Idea. Each group will share their examples with the class.
Example: Separation of Powers-Article II, Section 2, clause 2 says that the Executive "shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur." This means that two branches, the President and Congress (the Senate), have to agree before a treaty goes into effect.
4. Analyzing Primary Sources to Relate the Six Big Ideas to History (45 minutes)

Students will apply their understanding of the Big Ideas gained in Step 3 to actual documents which were created or received by the federal government as it was exercising its powers under the Constitution. Students will act as historians who must consider the source of each document, when it was created and its content to determine how it relates to the Big Ideas.

The teacher will list the Six Big Ideas on the board or post them on a wall. Pairs of students will be given a copy of one document from a selected list. Students will carefully read and inspect the document to determine which Big Idea is represented within it. They will then post the document under the corresponding Big Idea on the board or wall.

After all pairs have posted their document, the pairs will each take a turn describing their assigned document and explaining three clues in the document which support their determination of the Big Idea illustrated within. Some documents may be related to more than one Big Idea so students should be prepared to justify why they determined that one was more relevant than another.

5: Debating the Six Big Ideas in America Today (45 minutes for preparation and 45 minutes to implement)

More than 220 years after the ratification of the Constitution, the Six Big Ideas still inspire debate. Different understandings of how the Big Ideas should be manifested in the actions of the federal government often engender debates over what government should be doing in the name of the people it serves. Students will obtain an understanding of these current disputes by taking sides in a debate featuring current issues.
The Debate Format:

Two teams will be assigned one of the scenarios described below. One team will argue for Position A and the other will argue for Position B.

Each debate will have five participants on each side of the issue. Each participant will speak for no more than two minutes and teams will alternate speakers. Teams can use Handout 4 to plan the arguments to be made during the debate. Encourage students to anticipate and respond to the arguments that could be made by the opposing team.

Each team will choose a speaker to deliver the opening (an overview of the team's position).

Each team should choose a speaker to deliver the opening (an overview of the team's position).

Three speakers on each team should give supporting arguments-one argument per speaker.

One speaker on each team should deliver the closing argument.

The Debate Questions:
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Arts and Humanities, Literature, Performing Arts, English Language Arts, Composition and Rhetoric, History, U.S. History, Social Science, Political Science

Middle School, High School

Andrew Johnson, US Government, Black Codes, President Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural, Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan, Reconstruction, Thaddeus Stevens, Pocket-veto, National Equal Rights League, Reconsrtruction, Lydia Hamilton Smith, Executive Order, Radical Reconstruction, Wade-Davis Manifesto, Impeachment, Presidential Reconstruction, 13th Amendment, Frances Harper, Tenure of Office Act, Memphis Massacre, Wade-Davis Bill, Abraham Lincoln, Radical Republicans, Suffrage, Slavery, US History, Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, Enfranchisement, Civics, Second Freedmen's Act, Abolition, Frederick Douglass, American Equal Rights Association, Reconstruction Acts, 15th Amendment, 14th Amendment, Proclamation 115, Freedmen's Bureau, Civil War, Constitutional Theater, Civil Rights Act of 1866, Ratification, Joint Committee on the Conduct of War, Amnesty Proclamation, Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877), Reconstruction Era, Due Process

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StoryWorks: Now's the Time, StoryWorks: Now's the Time Curriculum

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Arts and Humanities, Literature, Performing Arts, English Language Arts, Composition and Rhetoric, History, U.S.

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Letter from Mrs. E. Jackson in Favor of Voting Rights

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Letter from Mrs. E. Jackson in Favor of Voting Rights

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https://docsteach.org/documents/document/mrs-e-jackson-in-favor-of-voting-rights

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Letter from Mrs. E. Jackson in Favor of Voting Rights | DocsTeach

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DocsTeach is a product of the National Archives education division. Our mission is to engage, educate, and inspire all learners to discover and explore the records of the American people preserved by the National Archives.

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https://www.nps.gov/mamc/index.htm

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Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

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Three national parks in Washington, DC, celebrate the contributions of three of the most influential Americans of all time - Frederick Douglass, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Dr. Carter G. Woodson. The NPS is working to preserve their homes so they can be enjoyed today and by future generations.

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https://create.kahoot.it/share/uschs-3bi-2022-kahoot/a850b605-0f54-4f0a-86f2-0003359948b8

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USCHS 3BI 2022 Kahoot - Details - Kahoot!

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Join a game of kahoot here. Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn - any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!

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Activity: Roles of the President & Constitution

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Activity: Roles of the President & Constitution

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https://jamboard.google.com/d/1xnKMvnEkeA974__YDZp4cpFLeLvkplJiFDvUHwpJUeo/copy