Chapter 7: The U.S. Constitution: Lesson Opener

Chapter 7: The U.S. Constitution: Lesson Opener

Take a moment to think about the classroom environment.

The environment is everything around us.

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What are some of the classroom rules that we have to follow?

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What is the purpose of classroom rules?

Now that we have created our own list of classroom rules, we will be creating our own classroom preamble.

We will begin our classroom Preamble with....

"We the People of Mrs. Walker’s Classroom, in order to form a more perfect classroom, establish respect for all ideas and people, insure care for others and ourselves, provide space for everyone to participate in class and ask questions, promote creativity and risk-taking, and promise to make good choices to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for Mrs. Walker’s Classroom.”

Let's look at our classroom Preamble. :D

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All that is missing is your signature. Please 'sign' your name below.

You have just participated in a reenactment of the Constitutional Convention! You will learn more about the convention and how our Constitution and government were created in this chapter.