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1. CREATING THE
CONSTITUTION
8th Grade Social Studies
Mrs. Valdez Room 220

2. Slide Content
3 Common Core Standards
4 Lesson Objectives
5 Slavery
6 2nd Continental Congress
7 America’s Independence
8-12 Vocabulary Loaded (Pre-test)
13 Notes
TABLE OF CONTENTS

3.  Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 6–12
 Key Ideas & Details: Identify key steps in a text’s description
of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill
becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered).
 Craft & Structure: Determine the meaning of words and
phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary
specific to domains related to history/social studies.
COMMON CORE STANDARDS

4.  1. Students will self-guide themselves through an interactive
multimedia presentation.
 2. Students will interact with content and determine meanings
of related and essential key terms of the construction of the
constitution.
 3. Students will understand the process and thought that were
drafted in the putting together the constitution through
multimedia interactions.
OBJECTIVES

5. Slavery
Compared to
being under
British rule
1780’s NE
colonies
taking steps
to end it
Conflict cont.
long after
Revolutionary
War
July 1776 legal
in all colonies

6. 2ND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
June
1776
John
Adams
Benjamin
Franklin
Thomas
Jefferson
Robert R.
Livingston
Roger
Sherman

7. AMERICA’S INDEPENDENCE
1. Click here for directions.
2. Watch

8. VOCABULARY LOADED

9. THE MAGNA CARTA IS A DOCUMENT THAT
MADE THE KING SUBJECT TO LAW.

10. WHAT IS THE DOCUMENT THAT CREATED
FIRST OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT?

11. WHAT IS SUFFRAGE?
All of the above
The right to be equal
The right to be poor
The right to pay taxes
The right to vote

12. Ratification
Constitution
Depression
Tariffs
Federalism
Taxes
Official Approval
Set of laws and principles
Low economic activity
Sharing of power between
government
MATCH THE DEVICE TO WHAT IT MEASURES:

13. NOTES
 Images included in this presentation are that of the ones available
through PowerPoint Clip Art.
 Slide 7: YouTube Video: A Brief History of America's Independence: Part
1" (Revolutionary War) - 321Learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfnrdWYmZus