Fact or Opinion?
♦You can check the truth of a fact. A fact is not debatable. It is either true or false.♦Different people could have different opinions. Opinions are debatable.♦When you say you or someone else thinks or
believes something, you are expressing a fact, even though what you think or believe may not be a fact. It is a fact that you think or believe that. Confusing, huh?!
Note: This is not asking whether a statement is true or not,
just whether it expresses a fact or opinion.
Clue words to show opinion: feel, believe, always, never, none,
most, least, best, worst, should.
http://www.st.cr.k12.ia.us/reading/fact_and_opinion.htm
Ways to show what you know:
Stand up if the statement expresses a fact. Stay seated if it is an opinion.
Write an F on the whiteboard if it is fact, an O if it is an opinion.
Practice: http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/page/key-constitutional-concepts
The National Constitution Center is in Philadelphia.
Before our Constitution was established, rulers thought it took armies to control their people.
Our Founding Fathers believed it took a constitution to control the people, and that the
people would accept it and follow its law.
Our Founding Fathers were brilliant.
The Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776.
(A1 to here)
The Articles of Confederation led to more conflict among the new states.
It was silly for the states to call their first union a "league of friendship."
The original states saw themselves as sovereign (independent) nations.
By 1787, New York State was planning a military attack on Connecticut and New Jersey.
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What were the Articles of Confederation?
Shay's Rebellion was a breakdown of law and order.
A narrator in this film thinks that for General Washington, Shay's Rebellion was the low point of the whole Confederation period.
The Constitutional Convention was held in Philadelphia.
James Madison was brilliant.
George Washington was indispensable in 1787. (That means they couldn't succeed without him.)
George Washington was famous throughout the world in 1787.
10:00 ___________________________
The men at the Constitutional Convention had not been authorized (given the power) to create a new constitution.
The representatives from the state of Virginia thought they should throw out the Articles of Confederation and write a whole new constitution.
There were sixty-six men at the constitutional convention in Philadelphia.
The Constitutional Convention decided to meet in secret.
Meeting in secret was a terrible decision.
Our system of government is like a giant game of rock/paper/scissors.
One of the narrators in this film says that it is as if the Constitution was written to make making laws difficult.
A2 worked to here.
Powerful governments are dangerous.
13:40 -- Executive Branch
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Bill of Rights
The people who made the video we watched say that the Constitution was not preordained (established by God and meant to succeed for hundreds of years).
The first amendment wasn't part of the original Constitution.
The Federalists thought that it was important to protect individuals from the states.
The Anti-Federalists believed in strong local power.
King George was a tyrant.
There are no photos from the Revolutionary War.
Individual rights should be protected.
Thomas Jefferson is often called the Father of the Constitution.
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