Alabama Social Studies SS24.6.17a
The Standard
- SS24.6.17
- Explain key rights included in the Bill of Rights and provide examples of how citizens exercise these rights in today’s society.
Trace the origins of rights contained in the Bill of Rights to issues leading to the American Revolution and the concerns of colonists about unlimited government power.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect colonial complaints about British rule to protections later added to the Constitution. They explain why people who had faced broad searches or military quartering wanted limits on their new government.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can link writs of assistance to protection against unreasonable searches and the Quartering Acts to limits on housing soldiers. They can explain that the Bill of Rights was written after independence to restrain the new federal government.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the Bill of Rights protected colonists during the Revolution. They may also assume each amendment came from one event, rather than from broader fears about government power.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How did British searches using writs of assistance help shape one protection in the Bill of Rights? Name the protection and explain the link in two sentences.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups cards describing quartering, broad searches, and rejected petitions; have them match each card to a Bill of Rights summary.
Have pairs discuss why colonists who opposed broad British searches might also want limits on searches by their new government.
Play a matching relay with colonial complaint cards, rights cards, and blank cards where students write the connection.
Show a sample search warrant and ask why colonists who opposed broad searches might want it to name a specific place.
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