Common Core Lessons & Activities: Bill of Rights Book

Bill of Rights - 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!

The Bill of Rights - 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.

©2013. Soft cover, 24 pages, 8-1/2 x 5-1/4, reproducible. Middle/high school.

ISBN: 978-0-635-10584-4

 

Table of Contents include:

           Father of the Bill of Rights: Reading Informational Text
           John Locke's Influence: Reading Informational Text
           Amending the Constitution: Graphical Analysis
           Rights and Limitations: Summarizing Information
           The First Amendment: Reading Informational Text
           March on Washington: Primary Source Analysis
           The Second Amendment: Reading Informational Text
           The Third Amendment: Problem-Solution-Results
           The Bill of Rights: Summative Graphic Organizer
           The Fourth Amendment: Reading Informational Text & Writing
           The Fifth Amendment: Reading Informational Text
           The Fifth Amendment: Primary Source Analysis
           The Sixth Amendment: Primary Source Analysis
           The Seventh Amendment: Reading Informational Text
           The Eighth Amendment: Primary Source Analysis
           Ninth & Tenth Amendments: Comparison of Primary Sources
           Bill of Rights Vocabulary: Vocabulary
           Four Freedoms: Primary Source Analysis
           Common Core State Standards Correlations