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No, the Founders Were Not Tea Partiers -- NYMag
No, the Founders Were Not Tea Partiers -- NYMag
This article gives us a more valuable way to teach the balance of the House and Senate. We can use a current political debate over what the founders intended and use it to explore the manner in which geographic and demographic size were bartered in the compromises of the Constitution. Better to work students through some of the challenge in this article than have them write definitions of the New Jersey and Virginia Plans for homework!
#lesson plan#secondary sources#US I Unit 3 Constitution and New Nation#8th Grade Social Studies
·nymag.com·
No, the Founders Were Not Tea Partiers -- NYMag
Religious Freedom Page: Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, James Madison (1785)
Religious Freedom Page: Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, James Madison (1785)
Any section of this document would be worthy of a lesson for students, though clause 3 is perhaps the best. It's ok to spend a half, or even a full class picking through this language for understanding. This is also a necessary ingredient in the "religion and founding fathers" argument soup.
#US I Unit 3 Constitution and New Nation#8th Grade Social Studies#primary source
·religiousfreedom.lib.virginia.edu·
Religious Freedom Page: Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, James Madison (1785)
George Washington's Annotated Copy of a Draft of the U.S. Constitution - The National Archives
George Washington's Annotated Copy of a Draft of the U.S. Constitution - The National Archives
This not only shows students how the skill of annotation is practiced by everyone engaged in knowledge work, it shows what Washington thought of the Constitution. The original copy of this sold for $9m - https://www.christies.com/george-washingtons-annotated-copy-24045.aspx?saletitle=
#US I Unit 3 Constitution and New Nation#US Constitution#8th Grade Social Studies#8th Grade Unit 3: The Constitution#primary source
·research.archives.gov·
George Washington's Annotated Copy of a Draft of the U.S. Constitution - The National Archives