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Foundations of Government, Applying Rights & Liberties

Valuing Our Rights

9-12
One class period
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Learning Objectives

  • Identify democratic values
  • Identify constitutional principles and 
  • the democratic values they embody
  • Discover democratic values in the nation’s founding documents and historical speeches
  • Define civil rights and civil liberties
  • Analyze speeches to evaluate the writer’s purpose and use of democratic values
     
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Overview

What are our nation’s fundamental values? In this lesson, students learn what our nation’s core values are and what influenced them. Students examine primary documents and historical speeches to identify our nation’s values and recognize their influence on social movements, national unity, and federal laws. 

 

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