Bill of Rights Extra Credit

The making period is coming to an end and several students have voiced an interest in extra credit. We will be excepting a one page write up on one of the Bill of Rights using the annotations from the following website: http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/BillOfRights.html#1.

Criteria:
1. Pick one amendment from the Bill of Rights (1-10)

2. Click on one of the amendments using the link above. Pick one of the annotations that interests you. For example, you may choose the first amendment are interested in maintenance of national security and the first amendment, you will then click the link saying Maintenance of National Security and the First Amendment

3. You will read the articles under the section you are interested in and then write a one page paper summarizing your findings and how it is related to the amendment you chose.

4. Possible points for extra credit will be three points added to your overall average.

Constitutional Convention 1787

Curious about our Founding Fathers? Was Benjamin Franklin intoxicated at the Constitutional Convention? Did George Washington really have wooden teeth? How many children did Alexander Hamilton have? Well click this link to find out more information about some of the most famous men in American History!

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/delegates/

Declaration of Independence

If you have seen the movie National Treasure, then you remember that there was a secret map on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Click on the following link and find out what was really on the back of this famous document. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/index.htm

Boston Massacre

To invesigate the Boston Massacre further check out the John Adams HBO series by clicking on this website: http://www.hbo.com/films/johnadams/

Here is another link that describes what actually happened during the Boston Massacre trials:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTRIALS/bostonmassacre/bostonmassacre.html