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. ©2013. Soft cover, 24 pages, 8-1/2 x 5-1/4, reproducible. Middle/high school. ISBN: 978-0-635-10549-3   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