Alabama Social Studies SS24.4.6c
The Standard
- SS24.4.6
- Identify and describe key events of the American Revolution, including the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Saratoga, and Yorktown.
Summarize the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain that people have rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They describe government as getting its power from the people and protecting those rights. They explain why people may replace a government that repeatedly violates them.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can link the ideas in order: people have rights, government needs their consent, and people may change a government that repeatedly violates their rights. They can explain the ideas without copying the document's wording.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the king gave people their rights or that a ruler alone gives government its power. They may think the Declaration made equal treatment a reality for everyone, or that one unpopular law is enough reason to replace a government.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask: Name two rights in the Declaration, explain where government gets its power, and say what people may do if it repeatedly violates their rights.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Draw a three-box flowchart with sticky notes: rights people have, power people give government, and what happens when government repeatedly violates rights.
Ask partners: Why did the writers say government needs the people's consent? Have each pair give an example of a leader ignoring the people.
Read three cards aloud: 'born with rights,' 'voters choose leaders,' and 'leaders repeatedly violate rights.' Students hold up Rights, Consent, or Change.
Show a sample local election ballot and ask which part illustrates government getting its power from the people.
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