This class is about the Bill of Rights and is broken into 4 lessons.

Lesson 1: (video lecture)
We will start by briefly reviewing why we have a Bill of Rights and what the Bill of Rights is. Then we will go through and read all 10 amendments contained in the bill of rights and discuss what they mean and what is guaranteed to us in them. Next, I will share a short YouTube clip reviewing all 10 amendments and giving tips and tricks about how to remember them. We will review the memorization tricks.

Lesson 2: (game)
I will explain to students how to play the game "Do I Have The Right?" on icivics that will help them practice implementing what they've learned. Students should play the game on icivics. If they don't feel comfortable visiting or using this site, they may teach what they have learned to someone else and share what they learned from that in the comments section of our outschool classroom instead. Otherwise, Students will be asked to screenshot the results page at the end of the game and write in a comment in our outschool classroom what surprised them most and what they learned that was the most interesting from the first two lessons.

Lesson 3: (video lecture)
In this lesson, we will go over the teaching of enlightenment philosophers, focusing specifically on Rousseau's ideas about the "social contract" and the "general will" and John Locke's ideas about property and consent. 
Once students understand the philosophical basis and political theory behind this era of political movements, we will compare the Bill of Rights with similar documents from other Atlantic revolutions which happened around the same time. In doing this, we will focus on how they drew upon similar ideas with varied results. 

Lesson 4: (writing assignment)
Students will use what they have learned to write their own Bill of Rights for a pretend country.