Week 4
Free Digital Constitution Alive Workbook
There is a free digital copy of the Constitution Alive Workbook included with your registration for class.. The Constitution Made Easy is in the back of the workbook. To access it, please follow these directions.
- Click Patriot Academy Login
- Click My Courses
- Scroll down to Biblical Citizenship digital workbook.
- It should say “enrolled” and you should be able to access it.
Resources
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For You They Signed- The Spiritual Heritage of Those Who Shaped Our Nation by Marilyn Boyer
For You They Signed is a great book with amazing information about each of the Signers of the Declaration of the United States told in story form. This holds a wealth of information and is very enjoyable to read. We love it so much that we bought one for each of our children for their libraries. See RaShell’s full review here.
The Founders’ Bible
The Founders’ Bible is a wonderful Bible that also includes articles, stories, biographical sketches, historical documents, and an incredible timeline of American history. Read RaShell’s full review of the Founders’ Bible here. This is on the definitely read list! P.S. Don’t miss David Barton’s story of how he got started in the article “Where the Journey Began” in the Founders’ Bible.
Student’s Declaration of Independence, Student’s Constitution, & Student’s Federalist Papers (3 books)
These are a great resource for putting these founding documents into plain English but in a way that is accurate according to the original intent. Fantastic resource!
Student’s Constitution
Student’s Federalist Papers
Student’s Declaration of Independence
Heritage Action for America
Join for free as a Sentinel and keep updated with the most important conservative actions happening in our government. They teach you how to make calls and let you know who to call for your state. Great way to get involved!
Exploring American Government Curriculum and We Hold These Truths- Historic Documents, Essays, and Speeches in American Government edited by Ray Notgrass
Exploring American Government is an excellent high school curriculum or for anyone who wants to learn how our government is created to function.
We Hold These Truths is a wonderful hardback collection of historical Documents, Essays, ad Speeches that works as a stand alone book for any library.
Electoral College baseball analogy video
Rick Green gave us permission to post this on the Patriot’s Hope Facebook page for our students.
Electoral College PragerU video
This is the PragerU Electoral College video that is shown in Constitution Alive Week 4 Class.
6-week course Homework- Article II The President & Article III The Courts
Read either the Constitution or the Constitution Made Easy (in the back of your digital or printed workbook). This week we will read Amendments 11- 27. In the Constitution Made Easy, that is pages 45-63. You can download the documents and print them at the Patriot’s Hope Historical Document Library.
Alternate Assignment (in case you have done the above assignment lately): Get three pieces of paper. Label them with Legislative (Congress), Executive (President), and Judicial (Supreme Court)- one label per page. Now, read the same section of the Constitution as the above assignment. List EVERY thing each jurisdiction can or cannot do. Keep those pages as you will use them for future assignments as well. If you do this for all three sections we have read, you now have a comprehensive list of everything government can do! That’s it! They are not authorized to do anything else.
10-week course Homework- Article 1 The Congress (Part 1)
1. In preparation for our continuation of learning about Congress next week, please go read Article 1 and Amendments 17, 20, & 27 of the Constitution again. If you need a copy of the Constitution, visit the Patriot’s Hope Historical Document Library.
2. *Look up the National Debt Clock. What is the current National Debt?
3 *Find out how many proposed amendments to the Constitution have been brought forth.
4. Continue to work on the Grievances and Constitution assignment from last week.
Read the Declaration of Independence again. If you choose to do this second part of the assignment, it will be a multi-week assignment. Create two columns and label them Grievance and Constitution. Write out each of the 27 Grievances. Then find where it is addressed in the Constitution.
For example
Grievance- Quartering soldiers in civilian homes
Constitution- Bill of Rights, Amendment 3
If you need a copy of the Constitution, visit the Patriot’s Hope Historical Document Library.
*Thank you to Coach Benjamin Leiby for the homework idea
Blogs Posts that Relate to Class
Jason writes about jurisdictions, enumerated powers, original intent, and more on our blog. You can earn an entry into the drawing for every blog post you read and comment on at the bottom of the post. Patriot’s Hope Blog
6-week course blog posts
- A Democracy and Why We Don’t Want It
- What is the Significance of the Oath of Office?
- One Out of Five Stars- Checks and Balances on the Judicial Branch
10-week course blog posts
- Why Jurisdictions Matter
- Does the Constitution Restrict American Citizens?
- A Rare and Fun Day in a Constitutional Nerd Kinda Way
Bonus FOR FUN Word Search
Complete the Constitution Alive Word Search. I’ll give you one Happy Ticket for each word search you complete. Just tell me that you completed the puzzle (no need to send a picture)- this is on the honor system.
Ways to Earn Happy Tickets
- Take an Action Step. Make a call, write a letter, attend a school board or city council meeting. Let me know what Action Steps you are taking.
- Read a Patriot’s Hope Blog Post and comment on it.
- Do your homework and submit it. One Happy Ticket for each item completed.
- Invite a friend or family member to register for class! Then contact us and let me know their name so we can watch for the registration. Each class can stand alone. It’s never too late to have someone come.
