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Explicit and Implicit Language – Interpreting the Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment Lesson PlanExplicit and Implicit Language – Interpreting the Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment Lesson Plan
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PBS
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6th - 9th
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Social Studies & History
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3 days
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Explicit and Implicit Language – Interpreting the Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment

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This Explicit and Implicit Language – Interpreting the Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment lesson plan also includes:
  • The Fourteenth Amendment - Part I
  • The Fourteenth Amendment - Part II
  • Fourteenth Amendment Explicit Meaning Handout
  • Fourteenth Amendment Implicit Meaning Handout
  • Fourteenth Amendment Essay Handout
  • Fourteenth Amendment Rubric
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How do Supreme Court justices interpret amendments to the Constitution? The resource helps answer that question by discussing how people use explicit and implicit language to interpret the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Learners watch videos for direct instruction, discuss as a class, work on handouts relating to the videos, and write an essay about the Fourteenth Amendment's explicit and implicit meaning.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

the fourteenth amendment, constitutional amendments, supreme court cases, supreme court justices, the supreme court

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Work with the English department to explain explicit and implicit language in an even more detailed lesson
  • Review writing skills and the use of rhetoric beforehand

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires presenting two videos, which may take a long time to download depending on Internet speed

Pros

  • Includes a rubric for grading the essay
  • Works well with important technologies, such as Google Classroom; it also easily exports to Microsoft Word

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RH.6-8.6 RH.6-8.7 RH.9-10.6 RH.9-10.7

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