US Constitution Unit: 5 Lessons from Convention to Ratification, Grades 6-8

Five days that take students from a government that did not work to a Constitution the states had to approve. They start with the Articles of Confederation and why its weaknesses led to a convention, spend a day on the Constitutional Convention and the Great Compromise, face the clauses that protected slavery, read the Preamble and the principles the rules put into practice, and finish with ratification, the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, and the Bill of Rights.

What's inside

• 78 slides in 5 PowerPoint decks, with speaker notes on every slide
• 5 lesson plans, 2 pages each
• 5 student readings, 1 page each
• 5 primary-source pages, 1 page each
• 5 student worksheets, 2 pages each
• 5 answer keys, 1 page each
• 5 Print-all PDFs, 7 pages each
• 60 files in total

Answer key included

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