Learning Goals
Students will be able to analyze the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the Mayflower Compact, and the U.S. Bill of Rights to explain how rights and responsibilities protect people and guide communities.
Students will be able to collaborate in discussions to identify classroom needs for safety, respect, belonging, and responsible speech using evidence from peer, counselor, and principal feedback.
Students will be able to justify and revise a class Bill of Rights by connecting historical rights documents and school expectations to specific classroom scenarios.
Products
Annotated Rights-and-Responsibilities Comparison Sheet
Each student creates an evidence-based research artifact showing how one historical document and current classroom expectations inform a proposed right and matching responsibility. The artifact includes annotations from direct user input and a short written explanation of how feedback changed the student’s thinking.
Class Bill of Rights Poster Set with Scenario Evidence Notes
Teams co-design a final class charter poster set that states shared rights, matching responsibilities, and brief evidence notes showing how peer, counselor, and principal feedback shaped revisions. The team also includes scenario cards or examples that demonstrate how the charter applies in practice.
Colonial Regions and Resources Map
Small groups identify different historical regions and the resources from those regions and describe how those resources influenced the development of those respective regions.
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