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The States of the USA
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The U.S. Constitution
1. The Continental Congress
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Open the link.
What is the title of the story?

What is the story about?

Find one question in the story. Write it down. Try to answer the questions.

Look at page 2 of the story. Look at the picture. What is the caption.


2. Signing the Constitution
Open the link.
What do you see in the painting?

What are they doing?

Name two signers of the Constitution.
3. Timeline about the start of the U.S.A.
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Open the link.

Look at the timeline. When does the timeline start and end?

What happened in 1787?

Look at the box with the title, 'Who Attended the Convention?'. Find the word Constitution. What is the Constitution?

Look at the timeline. When did Washington, D.C. become the capital?



4. The parts of the Constitution
Open the link.

Find the words, Text of the Constitution of the United States. Under this are the parts of the Constitution.

What is the name of the (1st)first part?

How many Articles are there?

What is the name of the first ten Amendments?



GAME: The Bill of Rights
One part of the Constitution was the Bill of Rights.

1. Play the game.

2. After you play the game, answers these questions:
- What are two important parts of the Bill of Rights?
- What do you think is the purpose of the Bill of Rights?


Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Citizen?
Test your knowledge of the Constitution.

1) Play the game.

2) What do you know about the Constitution?

3) What do you want to know about the Constitution?
Excerpts from the Declaration of Independence
1. Click on the link.

2. Save the file under your documents. (Go to file, save as) Then open the file in Microsoft Word.

3. Paraphrase each excerpt from the Declaration of Independence. (Type in your paraphrasing.)

4. Find, copy, and past a symbol or image for each excerpt. (Use google images.)

5. Resave the file.