Bill of Rights Assignment Buffet
The best part of a buffet is the choices of food. For this assignment, you get to choose your task!
Below you will find a description of 7 activities, arranged in 2 groups, labeled A and B.
You are expected to complete 1 product from each group. Use the guidelines to help you.
Row A (Bill of Rights; an overview):
Tableau (Pronounced “tab-low”)
Create two tableaus. Each tableau should show the main idea of one of the first ten amendments. You must follow all tableau rules and guidelines when you perform for the class. You will know you are successful if your peers pick out the amendment you are trying to show.
Display-
Make a display with the title, “Could They Have Been President 100 Years Ago?”
Find a picture of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. *Below their pictures write down 2 amendments from amendments 11 through 27 that made their Presidency possible. Also, show on your poster
1. Presidential requirements.
2. A list of groups who could not vote in 1789. Make a two column chart with the titles “Could Vote” and Could Not Vote”.
Crossword Puzzle: NO WORD SEARCHES!
Create a crossword puzzle with at least 12 clues that lead to important people, ideas, places, things that are important to the Bill of Rights. Your clues must be clear and easy to read. Your answers must be correct.
Provide a puzzle without answers and a puzzle with answers on separate sheets of paper.
Row B (Bill of Rights; a process):
Replace an amendment:
Replace an Amendment. Create a poster to persuade others to vote to ratify a new amendment. This amendment should replace one that is currently in the Bill of Rights. Which one will you remove?
Compose and Perform:
Compose and perform a song, jingle, melody, poem, or rap that explores why the Bill of Rights is still important in our world today. Hand in a clear and correct written copy of your composition.
Make a flowchart:
Make a flowchart showing the process to amend the Constitution. Use pictures words and arrows to explain the two paths an amendment must take to be ratified. Be able to explain your poster to the class.
Create a Political Cartoon:
Create a cartoon that somehow shows a person guarding their individual rights from a bigger, more powerful central government figure. Have at least two thought bubbles that show how valuable the Bill of Rights is. Be clear, creative, and show what you really value about the Bill of Rights.
You are expected to complete 1 product from each group. Use the guidelines to help you.
Row A (Bill of Rights; an overview):
Tableau (Pronounced “tab-low”)
- A tableau is a picture you form with your body in a “freeze frame” that shows the intended idea(s) you are trying to get across to your audience. There is no talking, laughing, or facial change during your tableau.
- You may use props.
- Pick two of the first ten amendments and create a tableau for each.
Create two tableaus. Each tableau should show the main idea of one of the first ten amendments. You must follow all tableau rules and guidelines when you perform for the class. You will know you are successful if your peers pick out the amendment you are trying to show.
Display-
- A display is often a poster but if you have other ideas please have the teacher help with your idea before you go ahead.
Make a display with the title, “Could They Have Been President 100 Years Ago?”
Find a picture of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. *Below their pictures write down 2 amendments from amendments 11 through 27 that made their Presidency possible. Also, show on your poster
1. Presidential requirements.
2. A list of groups who could not vote in 1789. Make a two column chart with the titles “Could Vote” and Could Not Vote”.
Crossword Puzzle: NO WORD SEARCHES!
- Follow the directions exactly for full credit.
- Choose terms important to the Bill of Rights.
- You can use “Puzzlemaker” (Criss-Cross) at this site: http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/
Create a crossword puzzle with at least 12 clues that lead to important people, ideas, places, things that are important to the Bill of Rights. Your clues must be clear and easy to read. Your answers must be correct.
Provide a puzzle without answers and a puzzle with answers on separate sheets of paper.
Row B (Bill of Rights; a process):
Replace an amendment:
- Choose one of the amendments in the Bill of Rights, and replace it with one of your own.
Replace an Amendment. Create a poster to persuade others to vote to ratify a new amendment. This amendment should replace one that is currently in the Bill of Rights. Which one will you remove?
Compose and Perform:
- Your composition should take at least 30 seconds to perform to be acceptable. You can use music to accompany you.
- It should at least 12-15 lines long, depending on how long each line is.
- It should take real things today and somehow tell us how the Bill of Rights is important to their existence.
Compose and perform a song, jingle, melody, poem, or rap that explores why the Bill of Rights is still important in our world today. Hand in a clear and correct written copy of your composition.
Make a flowchart:
- You will use your history books, or online resources from my website for information on exactly how the Constitution can be amended (two different ways).
- Your will have to clearly show the process. The information must be accurate because you will have to explain your display to the class.
Make a flowchart showing the process to amend the Constitution. Use pictures words and arrows to explain the two paths an amendment must take to be ratified. Be able to explain your poster to the class.
Create a Political Cartoon:
- Plan your drawing and words.
- Do some sketches and drafts before your final.
- Don’t lose sight of your message in the assignment.
Create a cartoon that somehow shows a person guarding their individual rights from a bigger, more powerful central government figure. Have at least two thought bubbles that show how valuable the Bill of Rights is. Be clear, creative, and show what you really value about the Bill of Rights.