Common Core Lessons & Activities: U.S. Constitution Book

U.S. Constitution - Common Core Lessons and Activities book

Meet the new Common Core State Standards for ELA as well as Literacy & Writing in History and Social Studies! This book is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing inference, text-dependent questions and more into your daily instruction. ©2013. 24 pages. Middle/high school levels.

Here's how it works!

• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core State Standards expectations. 
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills. 
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go. 
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

U.S. Constitution- Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:

• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities & More!

Tips for using and reproducing the book pages:

• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs. 
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5 X 11 inches, enlarge them 125% on your copy machine. 
• Use the CCSS correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

Table of Contents include:

Articles of Confederation: Reading Informational Text
Constitutional Correspondence: Compare & Contrast
Virginia Plan v. Hamilton's Plan: Writing
The Great Compromise: Reading Informational Text
Federalists v. Antifederalists: Compare & Contrast G
Article I: Primary Source Analysis
Purpose of the Constitution: Reading Informational Text & Writing
From Articles to Amendments: Cause & Effect G
Constitutional Vocabulary: Vocabulary G
The Preamble: Problem-Solution-Results
Separation of Powers: Reading Informational Text
Father of the Constitution: Cause & Effect G
Slavery and Compromise: Reading Informational Text
Ratification of the U.S. Constitution: Map Activity