BHS Social Studies

○ Learning Intention #4: ■ Students will describe the structure of the United States’ form of government as a compound constitutional republic, including the ideas of elastic and supremacy clauses. U.S. GOV Standard 1.3: ● Students will explain the organization, functions, and processes of the United States government, such as the purpose of the President’s cabinet, the function of judicial review, and how a bill becomes a law, and apply that understanding to current issues. ○ Learning Intention #1: ■ Students will explain the organization, functions, and processes of the United States government, such as the purpose of the President’s cabinet, and apply that understanding to current issues. ○ Learning Intention #2: ■ Students will explain the organization, functions, and processes of the United States government, such as the function of judicial review, and apply that understanding to current issues. ○ Learning Intention #3: ■ Students will explain the organization, functions, and processes of the United States government, such as how a bill becomes a law, and apply that understanding to current issues. NOTE: Students should develop skills associated with history to construct arguments using historical thinking skills. Of particular importance in a US history and citizenship course is developing the reading, thinking, and writing skills of historians. These skills are vertically aligned throughout the curriculum guide with the intent to support the skills needed for students to become critical thinkers and to think like an historian. ● Historical Thinking Skills: GOV Standard 1 ○ Source Analysis • Who wrote this? • What is the author’s perspective? • Why was it written? • When was it written? • Where was it written? • Is this source reliable? Why? Why not? ○ Contextualization • When and where was the document created? • What was different then? • What was the same? • How might the circumstances in which the document was created affect its content? POSSIBLE GUIDING AND INQUIRY QUESTIONS ● How are the principles of government embedded in the Constitution? ● How did the shortcomings of the Articles of Confederation lead to the development of the Constitution? ● How is e pluribus unum related to the concept of federalism? ● Why is an independent judiciary so essential to our democracy? What are some of the fundamental purposes of judicial review? ● How is judicial review a re fl ection of, and a response to, changes in our history? ● What are the exceptional characteristics of the United States’ form of government? VOCABULARY