Learning target: We can describe the relevancy of the early controversies in the U.S. History to current issues and events
We're going historical today. We've been talking about constitutional values. We'll be looking at how these different values are balanced inside our constitution and how conflicts over these values played out during the 1790's, one of the most crucial periods in the history of our government. To help us out here, we'll focus on three key individuals: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton.
Who was Alexander Hamilton? And why is he on our ten dollar bill? He was our first Treasury Secretary and was responsible for the first National Bank. He was an uber-Federalist and arguably had more impact on the country than any of the other Founding Fathers. There's also a new musical about him and his life. We'll listen to this rap from the show to kick us off.
Before moving into this story, however, we'll finish up our work from yesterday, going over the rest of the Constitution (Articles IV-VII), the Bill of Rights, and the rest of the amendments. Our lens will be amendments that could, in some way, apply to the pollution in our river. We'll revisit the Score Sheet from yesterday to see where we ended up.
After break, watch portions of two episodes from the mini-series John Adams. These scenes are a great way to understand our key Founding Fathers. Here are the questions for a journal entry at the end of class:
Homework due Friday, October 9th
If you attend the Voices of the Animas event at the fairgrounds, will out this worksheet. If you have an irrevocable conflict, you'll read these three short op-eds (Bill Simon's Op-Ed, Response to Simon, and Gwen Lachelt's Op-Ed). Then answer the questions on this worksheet.
We're going historical today. We've been talking about constitutional values. We'll be looking at how these different values are balanced inside our constitution and how conflicts over these values played out during the 1790's, one of the most crucial periods in the history of our government. To help us out here, we'll focus on three key individuals: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton.
Who was Alexander Hamilton? And why is he on our ten dollar bill? He was our first Treasury Secretary and was responsible for the first National Bank. He was an uber-Federalist and arguably had more impact on the country than any of the other Founding Fathers. There's also a new musical about him and his life. We'll listen to this rap from the show to kick us off.
Before moving into this story, however, we'll finish up our work from yesterday, going over the rest of the Constitution (Articles IV-VII), the Bill of Rights, and the rest of the amendments. Our lens will be amendments that could, in some way, apply to the pollution in our river. We'll revisit the Score Sheet from yesterday to see where we ended up.
After break, watch portions of two episodes from the mini-series John Adams. These scenes are a great way to understand our key Founding Fathers. Here are the questions for a journal entry at the end of class:
- Given what you know of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists (who became Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans) which of our values did Jefferson seem to believe in? Hamilton?
- What is similar between what happened in America in the 1790s and what is happening today?
- What does the battle between Jefferson and Hamilton teach you about making a perfect union?
Homework due Friday, October 9th
If you attend the Voices of the Animas event at the fairgrounds, will out this worksheet. If you have an irrevocable conflict, you'll read these three short op-eds (Bill Simon's Op-Ed, Response to Simon, and Gwen Lachelt's Op-Ed). Then answer the questions on this worksheet.