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This Day in Mr. Bruce's History Bell Work

What We Did In Class media type="custom" key="27997127"Today's work is to successfully open the Philadelphia Convention. As a class, we are taking on the roles of our Founding Fathers to convene for the purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation (as they did in 1787). All of us have been sent by our respective States to uphold the values our States wish to maintain or create. This means that we all have an agenda for these proceedings. For instance, we know that James Madison (VA) and Alexander Hamilton (NY) will work to create a new strong central (national) government. Yet, Rufus King (MA) was not in the mind that the Articles needed to be changed much, if at all... Can this convention change his mind, and the minds of those like him?

Today's tasks:
 * 1) Meet and Greet
 * 2) Elect a presiding officer (practice parliamentary procedure)
 * 3) Determine rules for the convention proceedings

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