BHS Social Studies

■ Students will share their current rights-related issue position with relevant stakeholders.

U.S. GOV Standard 2.3: ● Students will explain the purpose and importance of ful fi lling civic responsibilities and duties associated with active citizenship, including serving on juries, voting, serving on boards, councils, and commissions, remaining well-informed, and contacting elected of fi cials. ○ Learning Intention #1: (focuses on one example of civic responsibilities and duties, educators may choose from any of the above examples.) ■ Students will explain the purpose and importance of voting associated with active citizenship. ○ Learning Intention #2: (focuses on one example of civic responsibilities and duties, educators may choose from any of the above examples.) ■ Students will explain the purpose and importance of contacting elected of fi cials associated with active citizenship. 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 2 ○ 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 ● What are the civil rights and liberties codi fi ed in the Constitution? ● What is the relationship between a successful, functioning republic and a civically responsible population? ● How have the rights and liberties in the Constitution been interpreted and applied over time? ● How has the de fi nition of citizen changed over time? VOCABULARY

● Amendment Process ● Establishment Clause ● Free Exercise Clause ● Due Process ● Equal Protection Clause ● Supreme Court ● Amendment ● Legislation