Taxation Without Representation

Taxation Without Representation

Grade Level: 4-5

Subject: Social Studies
Language Arts
Study Skills

Learner Outcomes:
· Students will understand why an elected national leader is necessary.
· Students will learn selected vocabulary related to the election process.

Duration of Lesson: 30 – 45 minutes

Materials: pencils, vocabulary worksheets/puzzles, Schoolhouse Rock: America Rock video

Technology Tools/Courseware: multimedia computer with Internet connection and projection device; television; videocassette recorder (VCR); Accelerated Reader software for enrichment activities

Procedures:
· Show four segments of Schoolhouse Rock: America Rock video ( No More Kings, Fireworks, The Shot Heard Round
the World, and The Preamble)
· Discuss vocabulary from video
· Do Election Vocabulary Word Find
· Do Election Vocabulary Crossword puzzle

Modifications:
· Students with visual and/or hearing impairments should have preferential seating.
· Students with special learning needs (ex: learning disabled/mentally impaired students) should be paired with a peer tutor.

Enrichment Activities:
· Students may go to Puzzlemaker to develop their own wordsearch puzzle using election vocabulary words.
· Students may read Class President by Johanna Hurwitz and take the corresponding test on Accelerated Reader.
· Students may read Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz and take the corresponding Accelerated Reader test.
· Students may read Why Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George? by Jean Fritz and take the corresponding test
on Accelerated Reader.

Evaluation/Assessment: Students will have correctly completed both the Election Vocabulary Word Find and the Election Vocabulary Crossword puzzle.

West Virginia Instructional Goals and Objectives (IGOS):

Study Skills: 4.46, 4.52
Reading Vocabulary: 4.46, 4.47
Social Studies: 4.2
Listening/Speaking: 5.1

National Standards:

      Language Arts:
      *Demonstrates competence in speaking and listening as tools for learning.
      History:
      *Understands the historical perspective.
      *Understands the institutions and practices of government created during the
        Revolution and how these elements were revised between 1787 and 1815 to create
        the foundation of the American political system based on the US Constitution
        and the Bill of Rights.
      Civics:
      *Understands the importance of political leadership, public service, and a
        knowledgeable citizenry in American constitutional democracy.

References:
Hurwitz, Johanna. Class President, Scholastic, Inc. New York, 1990.
Disney, Schoolhouse Rock: America Rock, Scholastic, Inc., 1995.
Fritz, Jean. Why Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George?, reissued by Paperstar, Inc., 1996.
Fritz, Jean. Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution, reissued by Paperstar, Inc., 1998.

Author:
· Kathy Frazier
· Belinda Metz
· Debbie Scritchfield

Ravenswood Grade School

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