Warm Up
• Add today’s date to your Unit 2 Warm Up Page• Write the objective• Answer: Write four sentences
about a time you made a mistake. Why did you make that choice? What did you learn from the experience?
Agenda
• Make Your Own School Rules• Articles of Confederation Notes• Shays’ Rebellion• Shays’ Rebellion Editorial
Make Your Own School Rules
• Imagine POB had an entirely new administration…YOU• On a separate sheet of paper, work with one partner to develop five
school rules for Berry• Then, answer how each of the following groups would feel about your
rules• Students• Teachers• Parents• Custodians• President Obama
Articles of Confederation Intro Notes – Page 24• After the colonies declared independence, they needed to create
their own government• The Articles of Confederation (AoC) was approved in 1781 and
created the first government in the U.S. • Replaced by the Constitution in 1787
Articles of Confederation Chart
State Government Powers National Government Powers
1.2.3.4.
1.2.3.4.5.6.
Weaknesses of Articles of Confederation
1. 5.2. 6.3. 7.4. 8.
Create the chart to the right in your notes
Use the Student-Friendly AoC to help you out
First take on the top two parts
Then think about the bottom part. What possible issues could arise?
Silent Appointment
• We will make a “silent appointment” with someone in the room to discuss the weaknesses of the AoC we found• Without talking, make eye contact with someone in the room. Your
silent appointment will be with this person• When I say go, you will go to your silent appointment and share your
charts with each other. • After you share, come up and add something to the chart on the
board
State Government Powers National Government Powers
1.2.3.4.
1.2.3.4.5.6.
Weaknesses of Articles of Confederation
1. 5.2. 6.3. 7.4. 8.
State Government Powers National Government Powers
1. taxation2. Create a state court system3. Enforce laws passed by Congress4. All powers not delegated to the national government
1. Limited powers2. Declare war and wage war3. Make treaties4. Settle disputes between states5. Petition money from the states (no power to collect)6. Direct the operations of land and naval forces
Weaknesses of Articles of Confederation
1. National gov cannot impose taxes 5. one vote per state regardless of population2. No national currency 6. two-thrids majority needed to pass laws3. No executive branch 7. unanimous consent needed to amend AoC4. No power to regulate trade 8. No national court system
Shays Rebellion – Page 25
• The weaknesses of the AoC became clear during a mini civil war called Shays’ Rebellion• Complete the handout provided as we watch this clip on the rebellion• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEoeK5MvEdY
Shays’ Rebellion Editorial
You are a newspaper journalist for the Hampshire Gazette, and your boss just gave you the most important assignment of your career. You have been chosen to cover the story of the recent rebellion in Massachusetts. Your boss expects you to:
• inform the people of what happened; • formulate an opinion on whether or not
Shays’ rebellion was good for the United States;
• justify your opinion with evidence from your research about what the Founding Fathers had to say and what they believed.
Write this article below your handout on Shays’ Rebellion
At least three paragraphs.
Use at least one quote from Washington or Jefferson
Closure
