The Preamble 📜

Late Start Day 🕣

🎯 Learning Targets

• Define the major goals of our government

⏰ What We Did

• Handed back and discussed the answers to Monday's "Compromise and the Constitution" and yesterday's "We the People?, or We the States?" assignments
• Began learning the Preamble to the United States Constitution, using Schoolhouse Rock's The Preamble as a guide to identify the six goals of the Constitution

⚙️ Resources

• Schoolhouse Rock's The Preamble (H-3)
• The Preamble Song

💻 Homework

• Watch and take notes on Lesson 5, Part 4: The Supreme Law of the Land, before class tomorrow

The Struggle for Ratification 💪

🎯 Learning Targets

• Compare the views of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists
• Summarize the arguments presented in "The Federalist"
• Explore reasons that the states finally ratified the Constitution

⏰ What We Did

• Checked for completion of Lesson 5, Part 2 instructional notes
• Used Lesson 5, Part 2 instructional notes to help examine a primary source — a speech by Anti-Federalist Patrick Henry on his opposition to Virginia's ratification of the United States Constitution

⚙️ Resources

• We the People?, or We the States? (A-13)

💻 Homework

• Watch and take notes on Lesson 5, Part 3: The Preamble, before class tomorrow

The Constitutional Convention 💭

Today is Veterans Day 🇺🇸

🎯 Learning Targets

• Explain how the delegates organized the Constitutional Convention; Summarize Madison's plan for the new government
• Summarize the debate over how power would be shared by state and national governments
• Describe the compromises that were made about representation in Congress
• Explain the major elements of the executive and judicial branches created by the Constitution

⏰ What We Did

• Watched and took instructional notes on Lesson 5, Part 1: The Constitutional Convention
• Used Lesson 5, Part 1 instructional notes to complete "Compromise and the Constitution"

⚙️ Resources

• Civics ✮ Lesson 5 Instructional Notes
• Lesson 5, Part 1: The Constitutional Convention
• Compromise and the Constitution (A-12)

💻 Homework

• Watch and take notes on Lesson 5, Part 2: The Struggle for Ratification, before class tomorrow

End of the First Quarter 🌛

⏰ What We Did

• Used today's class to complete and turn in any Q1 assignments

Lesson 4 Lesson Review 4️⃣

🎯 Learning Targets

• Review the key concepts covered in Lesson 4 of Civics

⏰ What We Did

• Collected Lesson 3 Lesson Review
• Took a quiz on Lesson 4, Part X: X
• Began working on Lesson 4 Lesson Review

⚙️ Resources

• Civics ✮ Lesson 4 Lesson Review (LR-4)

Organizing a New Nation 🇺🇸

🎯 Learning Targets

• Describe the state and national governments Americans established after winning independence
• Analyze reasons why many Americans wanted a stronger national government

⏰ What We Did

• Using notes from Lesson 4, Part 4, answered the following questions in complete sentences:

1. Define compact, constitution, and ratification.
2. After declaring independence, how did the Americans organize their state and national governments?
3. Why did many Americans think that the national government under the Articles of Confederation was too weak?
4. Analyze Why did their experience under English rule make it difficult for Americans to form a strong national government?

Election Day — No School 🇺🇸

Clintondale High School is closed for Election Day. Classes will resume on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, at 7:35 A.M.

Catch-Up Day 🥫

Today's class was led by a guest teacher 🏫

⏰ What We Did

• Used today's class to catch up on any previous Q1 work or notes

Organizing a New Nation 🇺🇸

Today's class was led by a guest teacher 🏫

🎯 Learning Targets

• Describe the state and national governments Americans established after winning independence
• Analyze reasons why many Americans wanted a stronger national government

⏰ What We Did

• Using notes from Lesson 4, Part 4, answered the following questions in complete sentences:

1. Define compact, constitution, and ratification.
2. After declaring independence, how did the Americans organize their state and national governments?
3. Why did many Americans think that the national government under the Articles of Confederation was too weak?
4. Analyze Why did their experience under English rule make it difficult for Americans to form a strong national government?