While the Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution to preserve liberty, not everyone was on board. The dissenters refused to sign on unless the Constitutional Convention added a Bill of Rights. Viewers explore these important civil liberties—added after the Constitution was ratified—and their history using two videos and a series of discussion questions. 

Concepts

the bill of rights, the united states constitution, supreme court cases, the constitutional convention, the american revolution, the anti-federalists, the federalists, judicial review

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the videos and discussion questions to debate which rights the government should protect

Classroom Considerations

• Some parts of the videos are clips from other resources in the same series

Pros

• Videos use examples of court cases, great for fueling further discussion or research
• Discussion questions make video resources easy to use in a variety of lessons or classroom settings

Cons

• Videos are repetitive and will need to be curated by instructor

Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.2 RH.6-8.10 RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.10