The Bill of Rights

This week, the 7th graders have been learning about the individual rights listed in the Bill of Rights. Students have been learning chants and finger tricks to help them remember what each amendment says.  Today, students participated in an activity where they dealt with the hypothetical situation of an alien invasion.  The aliens would only allow the students to keep 5 of their individual rights.  The students discussed and debated which rights they wanted to keep and which were not as essential.  After much debate, the students quickly realized how important the each rights granted in the Bill of Rights can be.  For the remainder of the week, we will be discussing the other 17 Amendments to the Constitution.

Questions for your 7th Grader:

• What are your first amendment rights?  (They learned a chant to help them remember.)
• Which of the amendments in the Bill of Rights do you think is the most important or applicable to your life?