Differentiating Content, Delivery, and Assessment
As I begin the new school year I am always changing and reevaluating units and lessons to figure out how to make them better than the year before. This is a process that I believe will continue throughout my whole career as a teacher. The unit I am currently focusing on is the Constitution of the United States (Standard 8.2). Up until this point we have looked at the American Revolution and the causes and reasons behind it. Now as we turn to look at how the Constitution will be formed it is important that we look back to the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the Mayflower Compact. These three documents had a major influence on the writers of the Constitution and we can see their ideas echoed in our Constitution. I begin this unit by introducing each of these documents and giving a brief overview. I then want my students to look over these primary sources to find the main ideas presented in each, and to ask themselves which of the ideas presented are something that they value...