Unit
Topic
Theme

Region
Length

Goals

Skills

Fernando M. Reimers et al.

6.1

Creating :1 Classroom Constitution

ICC: interpersonal (one’s own identity and culture); ICC:
intrapersonal (conflict—resolution skills); ethics: trust in
institutions; knowledge: politics (government/ politics and
comparative government); arts: literature; and skills: global
problem solving (scenario building)

Not applicable

Three lessons

and Objectives

Learn the purpose of creating constitutions, their functions, and
their limitations.

Inspire students to develop concrete frameworks for creating their
own constitutions to help achieve the group’s goals.

Act by demonstrating an understanding of and creating a classroom

constitution.

and Knowledge

Students will identify the purposes and limits of constitutions.

2. Students will judge current events as they apply to the US Constitution.
3. Students will judge constitutions and their usefulness in en—
abling the classroom to work together for the common goal of
learning.
Overview

The purpose of this unit is to organize the classroom and to define its rules

and purpose. The students will also review their summer reading, a book on

the American Revolution.

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