Video:
Deerslayer

Documents:

The Constitution

The Bill of Rights

The Declaration of Independence

Anti-Federalist Paper

Internet:

wepin.com/articles/afp/intro.
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1.) Students will be assigned to the Federalist, Anti federalist, or Undecided group. Each group will use all resources including the internet in order to prepare for a debate on ratification of the Constitution. Three people are chosen to play the parts of James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay for the Federalists and 3 people are chosen to play the parts of George Mason, patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee for the Anti federalists. Speakers are to have four minutes to present their case and should work with a partner to answer the following:

2.) The rest of the speaker's group is to prepare charts of information showing powers delegated to state, national government, and shared power.

3.) The Undecided group is to prepare questions to ask the debaters. These questions should come from various citizen's points of view (farmer, banker, educator, merchant, military, etc.)

4.) Following the debate and the vote, students will apply their learning by pointing out ways the political beliefs today are similar. Results of the discussion are to be written with concrete examples to back up responses.

Students are to write a short essay which supports or refutes the following statement.

"The national government became weaker under the Constitution."

Responses will be assessed using a scale of 1-5 with 5 being the highest score. Criteria for rating includes:

· Well written and organized

· Logical and convincing

· Statements and positions are supported with facts or data

· Grammatically correct