November+23+15

This Day in Mr. Bruce's History Bell Work

What We Did In Class media type="custom" key="28071183"Today we started a two-day lesson that will review the reasons why the states created a confederation giving extremely limited power to a Congress and kept the majority of government in the States themselves. We will also look at why this was problematic, and led ultimately to the creation of a new Constitution that addressed the issues of the Articles of Confederation.

For this we used a lesson from iCivics called "Wanted: A 'Just Right' Government." By the end of the lesson students will be able to describe how the conditions and fears of British government led them to create the government they wanted and how that, in turn, made leaders realize that the government they needed was different and gave more power to a central (national/federal) government.

Specifically, today, we will read the supplied text in the handout (2 pages). Then we will work together in pairs to complete the cause and effect table using the cut-out strips on the last page of the handout. As a class we will discuss to ensure our answers our correct and make corrections as needed. It is not likely that we will finish this activity in class, and will save some for tomorrow.

[**Update**: In class we completed the reading and one section of the "Cause and Effect" sheet.]

Notes, Handouts, other Resources
 * Student Handout for 'Just Right Government'
 * Image capture of paired Cause/Effect statements
 * [[image:Pic11-23-15_121431.jpg height="300" link="@file:Pic11-23-15_121431.jpg"]]|| [[image:Pic11-23-15_133941.jpg height="300" link="@file:Pic11-23-15_133941.jpg"]] ||
 * = This is the completed work of 5th hour for the top section of the handout||= This is the completed work of 5th hour for the middle section||

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