Week 2.3 USA history

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time-iconLesson duration is: 50 min

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What did we do last week?

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Today's plan
  • BBC Newsround
  • Lesson: history of the USA part 1
  • Reading: New York
  • Time to work

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What do you know about the history of the USA?

Slide 4 - Open question

What's coming up
  • Early history
  • Civil war
  • Native americans
  • Government, voting and culture

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Early history
  • First colonies in the late 15th century
  • 1760s - the thirteen British colonies were established
  • British government imposed taxes
  • Boston tea party.

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1776
  • Independence of the colonies as the United States
  • George Washington, the first president

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Constitution and Bill of Rights
  • Specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights
  • limitations on the government's power in judicial and other proceedings
  • explicit declarations that all powers not specifically granted to the federal government by the Constitution are reserved to the states or the people

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The ten Amendments
  1. Your teachers gives you one Amendment;
  2. Look up what this Amendment means;
  3. Write the most important information down in your notebook. Explain how it could influence today's society.
  4. Share your amendment with the group 
timer
10:00

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Time to work
  •  Work in pairs for All Right 2.3 - 
  • Year 1: opdracht 2 3 6 7B 7C 10A
  • Year 2: opdracht 2 4 6 7 10 11
  • Project Promote: devide tasks/research

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The 13 colonies

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