Tuesday – Ideas for your Essay
Notes How the states governed themselves after the Revolution (title) - Basic ideas in all state governments - List all with a brief description - Problems with legislative supremacy - (Look at the picture on page 87) - list 2 - Declaration of Rights - define - list 10 Wednesday – After the Revolution
Notes The Articles of Confederation (title) - What they are - describe them - Problems writing the A of C - describe the two main problems - Organization of our gov't under the A of C - describe what the gov't was like - Achievements - List 4 - Problems - List 5 - Shays' Rebellion - Describe the impact it had on the Founders Thursday – After the Revolution
Friday – Test #1 - Only 1 question, your response should be 2 pages in length. What ideas, beliefs, and events influenced the writing of the Constitution? On the day of the test, you can have your planning sheet with you. This is a list only! No details!
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Monday – The 3 Branches of Government
- Name and describe the two main ways to prevent the abuse of power - Separation of powers in our government - List the three branches and give the main power of each branch - Checks and balances - List the way each branch can check on the other branches when passing laws Tuesday – The Three Branches
Rights of Englishmen - List Common law - Define Magna Carta - Describe the two main ideas the colonists used from this document Parliament - List the two main principles achieved with the creation of Parliament English Bill of Rights - what rights did it take away from the monarchy - List 3 Wednesday – Lessons from the English
- Colonial gov'ts - Describe 2 main objectives colonists had when creating their gov'ts - List the ideas included in all colonial gov'ts Thursday – Colonial Governments
Monday - A Republican Government
Tuesday – A Constitutional Government
Wednesday – Antigone presentation planning
Thursday – Antigone Presentations
Friday – Antigone essay
Wednesday
- Notetaking guide (Make sure you give each set of notes a title and label each section) Life in the 1700s (Title) - Where did the colonists live - How did they earn a living - How were the colonists different from one another - Why were class differences not important in the colonies - Who did and did not have the right to vote - What rights did the colonists value Thursday – Life in the 1700s
- define it - What did John Locke believe would happen in a state of nature? - Natural Rights - define them - list the 3 natural rights with a brief description of each - Social contract - define it and describe it Friday – Why do we need a government?
- define it - list the characteristics of it - List the advantages and disadvantages - Direct democracy - define it - how is it similar and different to a republican gov't - Civic virtue - define it - How did the colonists teach the values of a republican gov’t |