Week _____1____ Main goal(s)/enduring understanding(s) for this week: What is freedom?

Give students the outlining information from the origins of the Bill of Rights and the philosophy. Tend to some of the Rights briefly.

Monday Lesson topic(s) for the day Relationship to previous learning Content, skills, and/or values addressed (Essential Questions) Materials used Philosophy of Freedom US colonial history/ 17th and 18th century What is freedom?

Tuesday Philosophy/Bill of Rights (2 day lesson plan) US colonial history/17th and 18th century What is freedom?

Wednesday Review of Bill of Rights - Draw them Review US history/ Political Science (government) To what extent does government control freedom? What freedoms do we have?

Thursday Go in depth of amendments #3-5

Friday Go in depth of amendments #6-8, 10

Review US Review US history/Political hist/Political Science Science (government) (government) To what extent does government control freedom? To what extent does government control freedom?

- Primary source documents (see full lesson plan) - Graphic organizer - Smart board - Think/pair/share of what is freedom? (referred back to throughout the

- Primary source documents (see full lesson plan) - Graphic organizer - Smart board - DRTA primary sources - In-class discussion and analysis of freedom in the

-PPT of Bill of Rights -Paper -Markers

-Powerpoint that covers the 3rd-5th Amendments

-Students Articles

Instructional strategies

-Class discussion reviewing Bill of Rights - Student in-class group project - They will draw a

-Present Amendments 3-5 in lecture -Class discussion with students as to why these

-Think/pair/share articles revolving around amendments 6-8, 10 -Class discussion

unit) - DRTA primary sources/ philosophical viewpoints of colonial era.

colonial era - Introduce Bill of Rights in direct teaching form

picture for each of the amendments in an abstract way so that students are not just writing down the amendment name and definition

amendments were useful when written -Propose the question to the class of how do you think these amendments still apply to today and debate class opinions in class -Show class news articles and discuss why the amendments are still useful today

with students as to why these amendments were useful at the time -Use this as a transition for discussion on whether or not these amendments are still relevant for today

Checks for understanding /measurement of learning

- Have students fill out a graphic organizer to turn in for grading after the activity is finished

- Have students fill out a graphic organizer to turn in for grading after the activity is finished

- Have students present their pictures to the class and explaining how each picture represents an amendment

-Have students research 2 current issues or news articles revolving around amendments #6-8, 10 and bring them to class the next day

-Students do a quick write about their feelings on the amendments discussed in class. Some questions they could discuss are: what is relevant to today? What is different? How do you think people interpret this for today?