INTEGRATED LITERACY ASSIGNMENT

Charlie McCrary

GLEC’s

4 – C5.0.2 Describe the relationship between rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

4 – C5.0.3 Explain why rights have limits.

Poem

The Ten Amendments in Rhyme (The Bill of Rights)

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Websites

This website is about the Bill of Rights that your students can explore and learn about its history http://www.congressforkids.net/games/billofrights/2_billofrights.htm

This website talks about why rights have limits and how rights throughout history are limited http://billofrightsinstitute.org/resources/educator-resources/americapedia/americapedia-constitution/limits-on-rights/

Videos

This video is about the basic rights and responsibilities of the citizens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zRxiktEaug

This video gives more in depth examples of rights and responsibilities http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCu_5Geb8ts

Bill of Rights Songs

Lyrics on the screen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7RxrQJrdh4

This one explains some of the amendments more in depth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlt6R1KD4E0

Games

This game shows how you could be watched by the government and how some of your rights may be violated by it. http://billofrightsinstitute.org/resources/student-resources/play-games/

Teacher Books

These books have good Information for what the teacher should discuss in class for each topic in civics.

Activity and Textbooks

All these books can be found in the CML

Citizen Responsibility Lessons This site has a lesson plan for teaching

citizens responsibilities and other worksheets they can use to learn from.

http://betterlesson.com/document/87637/american-civics-unit-lesson-4-citizen-responsibilities-lesson-plan

Work Cited http://cyranosplace.blogspot.com/2008/04/amendment-1.html http://www.congressforkids.net/games/billofrights/2_billofrights.htm http

://billofrightsinstitute.org/resources/educator-resources/americapedia/americapedia-constitution/limits-on-rights/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zRxiktEaug http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCu_5Geb8ts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7RxrQJrdh4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlt6R1KD4E0 http://billofrightsinstitute.org/resources/student-resources/play-games/ http://

betterlesson.com/document/87637/american-civics-unit-lesson-4-citizen-responsibilities-lesson-plan Becoming History: United States Constitution. (n.d.). Monroe, CT: Really Good Stuff Publishing. Citizenship . (2004). In American Government On File (Revised ed., pp. 5.01-5.32). N.p.: Facts On File

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Core Democratic Values. Auburn Hills, MI: EDCO Publishing Inc. "Part 4 Civil Liberties ." Government/Economics Series. N.p.: Performance Education, 2007. 15-21. Print. Sundem, G., & Pikiewicz, K. (2007 ). Celebrating Constitution Day. Huntington Beach, CA: Shell

Educational Publishing. Tamblyn, C. (n.d.). Democracy in Action (pp. 12-14). N.p.: Weekly Reader Publishing.