Constitution Comic Book

We’re going to make a Constitution comic book this week, so get your pencils ready to write some facts and draw some pictures to tell the story of the Constitution!

Each group will be made up of 3 students, each partner will help research, write facts, and draw pictures. Neatness counts!!! You will receive a grade for each day’s work, based on completing all of the questions for that day.

Day 1-The Constitution
Each group will be given 1 piece of construction paper to use.
Each group will research and answer the following questions:
What is the Constitution?
Who wrote the Constitution?
When was it written?
Why was it written?
Each group will draw at least 1 picture to describe the Constitution in comic book format.

Day 2-The 3 Branches of Government
Each group will answer the following questions:
What are the 3 branches of government?
What is the main job of each branch of government(in simple form)?
Make a fun drawing(like people in Congress debating)

Day 3-The Bill of Rights(Amendments 1-5)
Each group will answer the following questions:
Write each amendment number
Write a simple explanation of what each amendment means
Draw a picture that shows the right for at least 1 right

Day 4-The Bill of Rights(Amendments 6-10)
Each group will answer the following questions:
Write each amendment number
Write a simple explanation of what each amendment means
Draw a picture that shows the right for at least 1 right.

Patriots-American colonists who supported independence from Great Britain
Loyalists-American colonists who did not support independence from Great Britain
Political revolution-changing from one governmental structure to another
Militia-a military force of volunteers
Mercenary-soldiers who are paid to fight for a country they are not from
Minutemen-eager young militiamen who were willing to fight at a moment’s notice.

Due to today’s schedule, we will watch this video in class, and complete an exit ticket over 3 facts I learned from the video, to be written in your folder:

https://play.blooket.com/play?hwId=69319ef1e225eba00de24cae

The Sugar Act of 1764-Britain taxed sugar and molasses, and made it illegal to buy it from other countries. Colonists didn’t like paying extra money on things they used every day. And it taxed the making of rum, which was a very important industry in the New England colonies. Colonists loved drinking rum! Coffee, wine, indigo, and fabrics were also taxed.

The Quartering Act 1765-required colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages.

The Stamp Act (March 1765)-To recoup some of the massive debt left over from the war with France, Parliament passed laws such as the Stamp Act, which for the first time taxed a wide range of transactions in the colonies. Legal documents, newspapers, and even playing cards were taxed.

The Townshend Acts (June‑July 1767)-Parliament again tried to assert its authority by passing legislation to tax goods that the Americans imported from Great Britain. The Crown established a board of customs commissioners to stop smuggling and corruption among local officials in the colonies, who were often in on the illicit trade. Taxes were taken on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.

The Boston Massacre (March 1770)-a crowd of 200 colonists surrounding seven British troops. When the Americans began taunting the British and throwing things at them, the soldiers apparently lost their cool and began firing into the crowd. British soldiers shot and killed Christopher Seider 11 days prior to this massacre, and this 11 year old boy was likely the first person killed in the American Revolution.

The Boston Tea Party (December 1773)-in 1773 enacted a new law, the Tea Act, to prop up the financially struggling British East India Company. The act gave the company extended favorable treatment under tax regulations to sell tea at a price that undercut the American merchants who imported from Dutch traders. The Sons of Liberty, a radical group, decided to confront the British head-on. Thinly disguised as Mohawks, they boarded three ships in Boston harbor and destroyed more than 92,000 pounds of British tea by dumping it into the harbor.

The Coercive Acts (March‑June 1774)-In the spring of 1774, Parliament passed a series of laws, the Coercive Acts, which closed Boston Harbor until restitution was paid for the destroyed tea, replaced the colony’s elected council with one appointed by the British, gave sweeping powers to the British military governor General Thomas Gage, and forbade town meetings without approval.

Watch from :48-4:55