Crystal-+SS+Instructional+Activity+1

__Activity 1:__ 8th Grade Social Studies: ** [2.05 ** Describe the impact of documents such as the Mecklenburg Resolves, the Halifax Resolves, the Albany Plan of Union, the Declaration of Independence, the State Constitution of 1776, the Articles of Confederation, the United States Constitution, and the Bill of Rights on the formation of the state and national governments.] ** Topic: Understanding the Bill of Rights ** I would like students to be able to identify and apply the Bill of Rights to their daily lives. One activity that I would like to incorporate would be a Knowledge Building activity by reading the text and familiarizing them with it. Next I would like them to bring in Newspapers and locate two articles that are being protected by the Bill of Rights. Students will learn about the Bill of Rights by seeing primary documents online and by learning the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution and the events that lead up to this. Students will then be able to take that information and apply it to their daily lives with the activity with the newspapers. This will ensure whether they were able to understand, comprehend, and see how this affects their own daily lives.