Today's Agenda

Content Standards:
Students will analyze how history is a series of connected events shaped by multiple cause and effect relationships, tying past to present.
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Learning Target:
I can summarize the issues debated at the Constitutional Convention, and I can analyze their impact on the new nation.

Critical Vocabulary: King George III, Albany Plan of Union, Treaty of Paris, Proclamation of 1763, Writs of Assistance, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty, Declaratory Act, Townshend Acts, Circular Letter, Boston Massacre, Captain Thomas Preston, Crispus Attucks, Gaspee, British East India Tea Company, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts, Quebec Act, Intolerable Acts, First Continental Congress, Second Continental Congress, Lexington and Concord, Continental Army, George Washington, Olive Branch Petition, Hessian, Thomas Paine, Common Sense, Thomas Jefferson
 
Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: Who is known as the "Father of the Constitution"?
2. Citizenship Question: Which of the following wars was fought by the United States in the 1800s? 
   A. Korean War 
   B. World War I 
   C. Spanish-American War 
   D. French and Indian War
3. Independent Learning: Major Principles Worksheet
4. Guided Instruction: US Constitution Study Guide
5. ​Reflection Question: What 3 compromises were essential to the creation of the US Constitution?

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Homework: The Critical Period Reading