Introduction Lesson Plan 1: High School Lesson Plan 2: High School Lesson Plan 3: Middle School Lesson Plan 4: Elementary School Lesson Plan 1: High School The Supreme Court and the Fourteenth Amendment By Roberta McCutcheon This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards: Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) -- Standard 2: The course and character of the Civil War and its effects on the American people. Standard 3: How various reconstruction plans succeeded or failed. Lesson Plan 2: High School Ratification Debates: A New York Case Study By Catherine Turso This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards: Era 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s), Standard 3: The institutions and practices of government created during the Revolution and how they were revised between 1787 and 1815 to create the foundation of the American political system based on the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Lesson Plan 3: Middle School An "Unconstitutional" Act? The Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus By Wendy Schanberger This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards: Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877) -- Standard 2B: The student understands the social experience of the war on the battlefield and homefront. Lesson Plan 4: Elementary School "Father" of Our Country vs. "Father" of the Bill of Rights By Tammy Spratt This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National Standards for History: Era 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s), Standard 3: The institutions and practices of government created during the Revolution and how they were revised between 1787 and 1815 to create the foundation of the American political system based on the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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